add metric: "include in the home page"

[ljharb]

On the home page of a repo, click the gear by "about" - there's three checkboxes (releases, packages, environment).

For example, I want to make sure all my repos have "packages" disabled, since I'll never use Github Packages for anything.

[thehanimo]

Not sure if this is supported in the API. Afaik, We can get info about releases, packages, and environments, but not their visibility on the home page.

[ljharb]

Even if it’s not in the api, if it’s trivially curl-able from GitHub.com without triggering rate limits, that might suffice for now.

[thehanimo]

Interesting. curling ljharb/repo-report downloads 229KB of data. We could parse the html response and check for the presence of the three sections (checked for packages, seems doable). But again, we're usually dealing with a large number of repos per run so I'm not sure if this solution is worth it. Caching comes to mind but not sure how we'll deal with a "per-metric" cache. Also, there's private repos to consider and token management and potentially, rate limits associated with that. Oh and, captchas? Does GitHub have those pop up on repeated bot-like requests?

[ljharb]

ha, all good points :-)

there doesn't seem to be any ajax requests made that we could call, so this might indeed have to wait til it's added to the API.