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There used to be a nifty "new github repositories" rss/atom feed at

curl -4 --head http://planet.lisp.org/github.atom

which would flag new lisp public repositories created on github whenever
they went public. It is no longer updated since
Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:57:02 GMT

I believe this was set up by Zach Beane who runs the domain.
Such a feed seems to have been unique to common lisp, are there any any
other languages with such feeds. It doesn't seem to be a github service
of this sort.

Any ideas how Zach may have implemented it? did it stop working because
github turned off some feature that it used?
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I'm guessing it was likely just a search like
`language:"Common Lisp" OR language:Scheme` (etc. etc.)?

Seems like there's some software out there to make RSS feeds out of
general github searches, and it seems pretty trivial since one just
makes a search with the API and transforms it into an Atom/RSS feed.

Doesn't seem like that part of the API (nor the basic parts like authentication) has seen breaking changes in years though? Maybe the
cron job to generate the Planet Lisp one just accidentally stopped
firing or something.

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* Alex // nytpu <10fnicu$33juv$1@dont-email.me> :
Wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:16:14 -0700:

I'm guessing it was likely just a search like
`language:"Common Lisp" OR language:Scheme` (etc. etc.)?

Thanks, with a user account, it seems the api can be used with a

created:>YYYY-MM-DD field to find new repositories.

curl -4 \
-H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64 (x86_64))" \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_TOKEN" \ 'https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=+language:common%20lisp+created:>2025-11-20&per_page=10&page=1'

Seems like there's some software out there to make RSS feeds out of
general github searches, and it seems pretty trivial since one just
makes a search with the API and transforms it into an Atom/RSS feed.

Doesn't seem like that part of the API (nor the basic parts like authentication) has seen breaking changes in years though? Maybe the
cron job to generate the Planet Lisp one just accidentally stopped
firing or something.

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* In <m3o6oxjotb.fsf@pison.robolove.meer.net> :
I Wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:14:16 +0530:

There used to be a nifty "new github repositories" rss/atom feed at
Any ideas how Zach may have implemented it? did it stop working because github turned off some feature that it used?

For the record, Zach Beane fixed this around the middle of December, and dropped me a note about it. The feed has been available at the URL
since then, and code is hosted at https://github.com/xach/ghprojects
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