GitHub Trending CLI

Goal for this project is to help you practice building CLI applications, integrating third party APIs, handling errors, configurations etc.

Create a command-line interface (CLI) tool that interacts with the GitHub API to retrieve and display trending repositories. The tool will allow users to specify a time range (day, week, month, or year) to filter the trending repositories.

The CLI tool will fetch data from the GitHub API and present it in a user-friendly format. The tool should be easy to use and provide clear output.

• Language: Pick any backend language

• GitHub API: Utilize the GitHub REST API for fetching repository data.

• Authentication: No authentication required for public repositories.

• Time Range Options: Support filtering by day, week, month, and year.

• Data Fetching: Implement error handling for API requests.

• Data Parsing: Parse the JSON response from the GitHub API.

• Sorting: Sort repositories by star count.

• Output Formatting: Display the trending repositories in a clear and readable format (e.g., repository name, description, number of stars, language).

• Command-Line Arguments:

  • --duration: Specifies the time i.e. day, week, month, year). Default to week.

  • --limit: Specifies the number of repositories to display. Default to 10.

• Error Handling: Implement robust error handling for invalid input and API errors.

• Documentation: Provide clear instructions on how to install and use the tool.

• Example Usage: trending-repos --duration month --limit 20