techgaun/active-forks

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active-forks's Issues

Show / Filters changes to README.md

While exploring forks, I usually find a common element for the most interesting ones, the README.md file has changed.
This is kind of logical: if the user has changed the README.md it's probably because he wants to give a new purpose to the repo.

Do you think it would possible or worth to add README changed as a filter field?

Include "recursive forks" (forks of forks)

It's hard to track what's really the most active fork if "recursive" forks are not included.

e.g.

https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#https://github.com/mathew-kurian/MonitorControl.OSX

https://github.com/mathew-kurian/MonitorControl.OSX/network/members

Active forks integration with github UI via browser extensions

It would be great if we could turn this into an extension such that being on github repo page, we can see the most active/updated forks before we actually create a new fork. Also, reduces friction of having to come to this tool

demo site seems to be broken

Fetch more than 30 forks

Forks from GitHub are paged 30 at a time. It would be nice to fetch them all for large projects (many forks).

new condition forked from a repository owned by

this could be useful for example to see forks of projects of a developer if the developer ragequit and deleted all his repos

Commits behind\ahead\identical

Currently this project shows active forks based on forks\fallows, but I'm interested more in development side. It would be great to see fork status. Additional column with number of commits behind\ahead\identical. It looks like this would require new request for each fork.
Maybe checkbox could be added 'Show fork status' which would show additional column ?

e.g:
https://api.github.com/repos/justcla/EasyMotion/compare/master...DomasM:master

better date formatting for last push

Right now, its displaying ISO datetime: 2018-10-04T21:00:23Z. Would be nice to say something like 1 year ago, 29 days ago and so on

Add GitHub Topic: forks

Thanks for publishing this! In case you'd like to make your repo more findable), you could add that topic ;-) Thank you!

wrong last push date - github api returns wrong data

see https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/#https://github.com/ileben/ShivaVG

actual

Link	Owner	Name	Branch	Stars	Forks	Open Issues	Size	Last Push
Link	Ecognize	ShivaVG	master	12	6	10	1113	19 days ago

expected

last push was 2016-07-28 = 5 years ago, per https://github.com/Ecognize/ShivaVG/branches/all

shields:

{
  "data": {
    "repository": {
      "createdAt": "2012-09-27T04:53:51Z",
      "pushedAt": "2021-10-17T20:07:27Z",
      "updatedAt": "2021-10-17T11:25:22Z",
      "refs": {
        "nodes": [
          {
            "target": {
              "authoredDate": "2016-07-28T00:15:03Z",
              "committedDate": "2016-07-28T00:15:03Z"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  repository(name: "ShivaVG", owner: "Ecognize") {
    createdAt
    pushedAt
    updatedAt
    refs(last: 1, refPrefix: "refs/heads/") {
      nodes {
        target {
          ... on Commit {
            authoredDate
            committedDate
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

also deep forks are not listed → #31

Cleanup non issue

When my account was compromised a spam issue was created in this repo. I sincerely apologize. Cleaning up such issues via script.

[Feature request] Direct link to the last push itself

May help figuring #32 out.
Thanks !

Integrate with GitLab

Some repos are moved to gitlab.
Github: https://github.com/rafalense/Plus-Messenger
Gitlab[current]: https://gitlab.com/rafalense/plus-messenger

[Feature request] Last commit

Hello,

As pointed out in #32 (comment), the result from Active Forks shows last push date, regardless of the last commit date.

Therefore, I would like to suggest adding the last commit date to the result.

As stated, the branch also matters, therefore I would suggest actually adding 3 1 columns :

• the last commit date from default branch
• the last commit date from any branch (if more recent)
• the branch name of said commit

EDIT : that would require a lot of API calls for each fork repository, so it's not doable.

Thanks

[Feature] Show most recent release for each fork

Releases are available in some forks that include changes introduced in the forks in question.
It would be very useful if in the fork report table there was a link to the latest release available for each of these, if available, for example by also including the date on which they were released (sortable in the table).

Show for non-master branches the size of commits.

Direct links to the checked repo

Would be nice to be able to send direct links to people such as https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/#someuser/somerepo and that would load data for that particular repo

Sort by latest fork (as default)

I think the main point of the project (as title says) is to show the Active Forks.
However, when we enter the site and type repo-url , it doesn't give the results sorted by the "latest push" (which is the sign of "activeness").

Would be nice if you defaulted that.

Separting Sorting Buttons

Currently it is up then down

TypeError: window.forkTable.clear is not a function. Additional info in console

Show how many commits ahead a fork is from the original repo and view them

Part of the definition of "active fork" is that it has commits past the original repo, so I think it is important (it certainly is to me) to see how many commits ahead a branch is. It would be cool if I can see the commit messages that the new repo has that the old one doesn't.

This repo/library is not being maintained, but I can't even import the library because it relies on a dependancy that is not in the android runtime (anymore at least), so all I want is to find a fork that solved that issue. Many of them just forked it without adding any new commits, and it is several years old (which I don't care about, so long as it works), but I can't tell if anyone fixed that issue just by looking at the last commit. There are 377 forks, so it is not feasible to look through each one to see if it has any commits that solve that issue.

Maybe there should even be a condition for "new commit message contains phrase"... so I can search for "dependancy" or "JUnit" (the missing dependancy), etc.

Accept HTTP/HTTPS links

The program should accept https and http links like https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks. I can work on this issue.

Fails to show a recently updated fork

I tried looking into this repo:

https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#EssentialsX/Essentials

And for example it doesn't show this fork updated 3 days ago:

https://github.com/Division7/Essentials

lexicographic sort on last update is misordering forks

The lexicographic sort of last update of a fork is putting 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, ... 8 years, before 9 months. Months should come before years. "a year" needs to come before "2 years" etc.

Either the sorting rule attached to the column needs to parse the duration before making comparisons, or a hidden value should be used at the sort key.

Last push inaccurate

Hello,

The "last push" column is always inaccurate while it's the most relevant information we need to find active forks.

Thanks

Bookmarklet in README is outdated / broken

The javascript bookmarklet present on the README seems to be a little outdated. GitHub prepends the repo name with "GitHub - ", causing the new window to search for a repo name such as "GitHub - techgaun/active-forks".
The code snippet appears to also cause the original window to overwrite all page contents with a single "[object Window]".

I adjusted the snippet to this, and find it working as intended in current versions of Firefox and Chrome:

javascript:(function(){ title=document.title;if(title){  thing=title.split(/(GitHub\s-\s)*([^:]*)/)[2];var newPage = 'https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#'+thing;window.open(newPage)}})()

edit - some times Repo page titles do not include the "GitHub - " prefix, regex was updated to account for this

Access to fetch at ... from origin 'https://techgaun.github.io' has been blocked by CORS policy

I tried input liudonghua123/webhek_puzzle in https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html and then I got the following errors in my console.

Access to fetch at 'https://api.github.com/repos/liudonghua123/webhek_puzzle/forks?sort=stargazers&per_page=100' from origin 'https://techgaun.github.io' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED

The final url is https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#liudonghua123/webhek_puzzle.

Humanize size column

TypeError: Cannot read property 'login' of null.

This might be user error, but i am getting "TypeError: Cannot read property 'login' of null. Additional info in console" when i try and find the active forks for "docbleach/DocBleach" https://github.com/docbleach/DocBleach
is it something to do with the target project?

ability to sort by most recent updates vs stargazers

IIRC, the API supports to specify if you wanna search by most recently updated vs stargazers.

[Feature] allow forks of gists

Basically title. There is a way to see forks of gists e.g. https://gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070 Would be nice to see the which one is changed ++ or -- the most.

Number of open issues

Number of open issues on forks can give an idea of whats going on. Would be nice to have it in the column. Looks like we have more columns and maybe there's a better way to lay it out too but for this particular issue, hopefully we can show number of open issues somewhere (maybe by the repo that says 3 open issues for example)

I made a bookmarklet for this

I use this tool periodically but it was always a hassle copying and pasting the repo into this page, so I wrote a bookmarklet for it. Go ahead and throw it on your readme. Just it Ctrl+D to create a new bookmark and paste the javascript below into the URL or "Location" entry. Any time you're on a github repo you can click the bookmarklet and it'll bring up the activeforks of that repo.

javascript:var title=document.title;if(title){ thing=title.split(':');var newPage = 'https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#'+thing[0];open(newPage ,'targetname')}

Feature request: Show the main repository as well

It would be nice to see the main repository in the table for easy comparison of the displayed metrics. Otherwise it's easy to forget how many stars, and how recently the main repository was updated to compare it to the other forks.

Where is my npn number?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tieppy7gn7WjX3JXA

Show creation date

Integrity check exception when using Adblock

Just a note for adblock users.
The adblock version employs a beta feature to cache popular libraries, in my case jquery 3.1.1 minified slim version got cached and instead the minified version is served to the browser resulting in an invalid integrity check.
To circumvent this either disabled adblock for the page, disable the beta feature or use my work which temporarily disabled the check (https://github.com/KilianB/active-forks).
A pull request doesn't make sense since this is a bug in adblock and we should not lower security because of them (I created a support ticket in hope that they sort our their caching policy).

Show field and add it search criteria : "ahead, even or behind" vs original repository

It would be great to be able to search forks by "ahead, even, behind" criteria since often users are looking for forks that are ahead of original repository

Github apiv4 GraphQL

Hey,
Not sure if this is issue, maybe question\suggestion. Looks like github will add GraphQL support to their api. Using it would solve probably all current issues, you could make one query and get all required data, maybe pagination would work, maybe sorting works. Haven't looked much in what is supported, but I think this should be reviewed, maybe it's possible to migrate.

https://developer.github.com/v4/

Show if issues are enabled

Hi! this project is a great idea.
It would be good to know if issues are enabled for the project, so you know you can post questions/bugs/etc
Thanks!

making it work with dependents tab

Can this with minimal modifications sort dependents by stars?

feat: find renamed forks

usually "hostile" forks are renamed, sometimes these forks are more interesting : )

share to social (twitter, fb) & copy to clipboard features

when no repo is being looked at:

Find active forks of a github repo: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

when repo is being looked at:

Active forks of <source_github_url> : https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html/#techgaun/github-dorks

Unable to get active forks of forked projects

So I wanted to see who forked a project of a user who had previously forked the project.

WHY?
because I am using this tool to check if a project has a fork that is being updated and the user hasn't merged the updates to the main project.

You can give it a try with a project I forked from a forked project. From your tool I can't see myself as a fork from the main project but when I try to see active forks of the forked project I forked I get an error.

Main Project: https://github.com/ernw/nmap-parse-output
Forked Project I forked: https://github.com/JakeSamu/nmap-parse-output
My Fork: https://github.com/iAmG-r00t/nmap-parse-output

The weird thing is when I updated the repo, the active repo site says the Forked Project is the one that is active see below screenshot while I can't see my fork from the site 😄

Cannot find info for repo name containing ".git"

Trying to find info for KirkMcDonald/kirkmcdonald.github.io:

• https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#KirkMcDonald/kirkmcdonald.github.io

What the API link should be:

• https://api.github.com/repos/KirkMcDonald/kirkmcdonald.github.io/forks?sort=stargazers&per_page=100

What the website actually reached out to:

• https://api.github.com/repos/KirkMcDonald/kirkmcdonaldhub.io/forks?sort=stargazers&per_page=100

Strip extra paths

zhukov/webogram#1500

Doesn't work at all

I could understand you don't have time/wish to support this repo but what is that?

- (CGFloat)width {
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        return self.frame.size.width;
    });
}

Function must return its value immediately but you call dispatch_async which of course doesn't work.

Not working, 403 error

Zero luck using the service, on edge or firefox,

btw, great idea

[feature suggestion] useful condition for downloads

I often use active-forks to try locating a fork with usable download
the current solution is mostly switch to 100 and ctrl+click to open all of the links in tabs, looking for their releases. it is often disappointing though..

=-=-=

this might be useful in the conditions feature,
might be useful to query the repos.

• has a releases

• release has "non default artifacts" (i.e. actual files to download)

• has actions

• actions has "cli" (for example), with at least one artifact.

Fix the URL generation once repo is input

the url generated once the repo is input is incorrect. It changes to https://techgaun.github.io/#techgaun/github-dorks but it should have been https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/#techgaun/github-dorks

Note the missing active-forks

This was recently added bug.