[SOLVED] How to get a primary or a list of languages from github's URL using github API?

How to get a primary or a list of languages from github's URL using github API?

I have an url to github repo, for instance: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx

Is there any possible approach in github's API to get "C#" as a primary language of the repository?

Solution

You can use List languages Github API that will give you all language used in this repo with the number of bytes of code written in that language :

GET https://api.github.com/repos/dotnet/corefx/languages

that will give you :

{
  "C#": 131055040,
  "C": 1078381,
  "Visual Basic": 829607,
  "C++": 622926,
  "XSLT": 462336,
  "OpenEdge ABL": 139178,
  "Shell": 70286,
  "CMake": 60136,
  "PowerShell": 51624,
  "DIGITAL Command Language": 26402,
  "Groovy": 25726,
  "Batchfile": 21796,
  "Objective-C": 9455,
  "Makefile": 9085,
  "Roff": 4236,
  "Perl": 3895,
  "ASP": 1687,
  "Python": 1535,
  "1C Enterprise": 903,
  "HTML": 653
}

With bash you can use jq to parse and select the field with the max bytes value :

language=`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/dotnet/corefx/languages | jq 'to_entries | max_by(.value) | .key'`
echo "$language"