README.md

In jonocarroll/starryeyes: Gather together stars from people you follow

starryeyes

Discover new packages through social delegation!

Installation

You can install starryeyes from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jonocarroll/starryeyes")

Motivation

GitHub doesn't officially have an API endpoint for "which of the people I follow starred something?" but I wanted a way to do this. Originally I set up an IFTTT action to watch my private GitHub RSS feed and send me an email when a new star appeared, but this quickly filled my inbox.

This way, I can check-in when I like.

Usage:

1. Follow some trendsetters on GitHub.
2. Wait until they star a heap of cool repos
3. starryeyes() to produce a shinydashboard of the activity.

This will work out your GitHub username by itself if you're using a GITHUB_PAT environment variable already. If not, you can supply your GitHub username. You can enter your password or be prompted (securely) for it. You can just provide the feedURL if you rather skip all of that (see github.com if you're logged in).

The final product looks something like this:

Future work:

• Cache the results so they accumulate over time
• Remove duplicates (spread them out over a unique starring)
• shinyapps.io (?)

"Oh my God! — it's full of stars!"

jonocarroll/starryeyes documentation built on May 4, 2019, 4:23 p.m.