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Libraries – Open Source Discovery Service

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38 pointsjonbaer14 comments

Cool project! I was surprised to see Go has 167k libraries vs. 153k from Node. The Go libraries are being counted incorrectly -- each vendored library is also counted (which is common practice for many Go apps) -- so the number is very inflated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211207

I was about to start working on an identical tool as my side-project.

Couple of thoughts:

* Devise a "pagerank for packages" algorithm - number of Github stars, how actively they're maintained, number of issues/contributors/etc.

* For monetization offer a service similar to https://www.versioneye.com (found out about them on HN as well, after I had the idea). You're going to crawl the packages either way.

Best of luck!

@sandis the search does use a thing I've been calling "SourceRank", I blogged about it here: https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db...

I been working on Libraries.io in my spare time for the past couple months, I wrote up a little more about how Libraries.io it works on medium: https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db...

I was just filtering for C projects and almost all of the results were JavaScript or Ruby. Is there a way I actually get C projects when I filter for them?

This is where https://libraries.io/ falls short. While the execution is really great (good job), the idea that a developer might be looking for projects in a wide variety of language/platforms at once is false.

Most of the time you already know the platform and want only to search for this platform, not all of them.

It must be a fun project to do still.

I'm crawling some famous C repos at GitHub for VersionEye. There are listed here: https://www.versioneye.com/C. And I integrated the biicode, a dependency manager for C/C++. The biicode packages are listed here: https://www.versioneye.com/biicode. Currently there are no tags like at libraries.io but maybe I will add tags and tag filters for browsing tags/categories.

Looks cool. Any chance of adding f# to the list of languages?

[edit] There's a 'see more' link that I missed.

Great project! May I ask how do you guys choose which libraries to track?

Projects are found via the apis provided by all the package managers that are tracked, Libraries watches rss feeds of new and updated packages on places like rubygems and npm and adds them from there.

Thanks for the explanation!

Neat idea. Add support for letting people categorize packages though!

It's in the pipeline but I'm only working on this in my spare time at the moment so it might be a couple months out.

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