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How to get github search results sorted by the number of forks or stars?

I need this feature to demonstrate which project is the hottest among those that target the similar task/function/feature.

I notice github do offer the advanced search here, but how to write the query? Say, I wonder the top 10 forked django plugin apps. What the query looks like? I tried "django- fork:" or even "django- fork:>500", it doesn't work. (here we use 'django-' since most django plugin apps has such prefix)

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Update of the Update (February 2013, source "Sortable Stars"):

Starting today you can sort your starred repositories by when you starred them or when the repositories were last updated.

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So the sort criteria is now visible.

Update January 2013 (source: "A whole new code search")

Searching by number of forks seems now to return a result ordered by number of forks

django- forks:>500

This is confirmed by the blog post "Sorting through Search Results" (January 31, 2013):

If you're searching through repositories, you can sort by stars, forks, or recently-updated

(Original answer: Sept. 2012)

I don't see any sort option in GitHub advanced search.

The forks: filter is to indicate a precise number of fork, like this query would display the 4 repos with 100 forks for "django-". But that doesn't display all repo above 100 forks, and that doesn't sort them.

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  • Yes, I found the github only support "Exact search". In your case, is it possible to search the repo with the number of forks > 100? – hushwings Sep 03 '12 at 04:24
  • @hushwings at first glance, it doesn't seem to be possible – VonC Sep 03 '12 at 04:39
  • if github cannot support "<" ">" predicate, I think the prefix search is almost useless. How could you count on the user know the exact repo #forks(:forks), #followers(:followsers), and even size(:size). So disappointed! – hushwings Sep 03 '12 at 06:05
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GitHub supports the "Lucene query syntax".

See @VonC's answer here:

GitHub advanced search default behaviour

and

http://www.lucenetutorial.com/lucene-query-syntax.html

But Lucene doesn't support ordering.

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