usmanziak/homebrew-formulae

Open source project to help out Homebrew users analyze packages based on popularity.

Homebrew-Formulae

Homebrew is known as "The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)"

As a user, there is a lack of analytics to show the popularity of the packages installed by users using Homebrew which could vastly help users pick out the best packages for their needs. This project is based on that issue and contains python scripts that will grab data from a JSON API, parse out the information needed (using sleep to avoid slamming the server with multiple requests)

time.sleep(r.elapsed.total_seconds())

and then sort out the data based on popularity using a custom key.

Homebrew Home Page Homebrew Packages

Information on files

Data Script

This python script uses the request library to receive data from the JSON API listed on Homebrew and dumps the necessary information in the example package info file.

Sort Script

This python script then sorts the information from the package info file depending on user needs. In this particular script, I look for packages with "video" mentioned and sorted by popularity. One can change the list comprehension

data = [item for item in data if 'video' in item['desc']]

to suit their particular needs.