Searching GitHub Projects for Open Issue Counts

[mmoo9154]

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I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this question. If it's not, please point me to the right place.

I have read through the Search on GitHub > Code search syntax page. I see how to search for open issues, what language the project is written in, and even how to search for open issues on a particular repository/project.

What I don't see is how to search for all projects with greater than x open issues and sort the list by number of open issues descending.

It seems like this should be possible, if not with the existing search syntax then with the GitHub API.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[LiteBrite82]

Interesting! I'm doing some research on that; Ill get back to you if I find something.

[LiteBrite82]

Code search is an appropriate category for this discussion, but, with the specificity of the question, we may get better results in the projects category. Ill move it over there for now.

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