Metamatter

Minimal metadata extractor for the GitHub API. Ultimately the goal is to get this to produce output similar to that described in this blog post. Currently none of the entities in the output have any semantic context.

{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "Code",
  "name": "Fidgit",
  "codeRepository": "https://github.com/arfon/fidgit",
  "citation": "http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.828487",
  "description": "An ungodly union of GitHub and Figshare http://fidgit.arfon.org",
  "dateCreated": "2013-10-19",
  "license": "http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Arfon Smith",
    "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3957-2474",
    "email": "arfon@github.com"
  }
}

Usage

ALGORITHMIA_TOKEN = your_algorithmia_token
GITHUB_TOKEN = your_github_token

repository = Metamatter::Repository.new('arfon/metamatter')
repository.extract    #=> '{"authors": [{"name": "Arfon Smith", "email":"arfon.smith@gmail.com" ...

or from the command line:

GITHUB_TOKEN=your_github_token ALGORITHMIA_TOKEN=your_algorithmia_token\
metamatter extract arfon/metamatter

{
  "repository": {
    "name": "metamatter",
    "location": "https://github.com/arfon/metamatter",
    "description": "Minimal metadata extractor for the GitHub API",
    "created_at": "2015-07-06 10:42:12 UTC"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Arfon Smith",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-3957-2474",
      "email": "arfon.smith@gmail.com",
      "login": "arfon",
      "contributions": 10
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "api",
    "extractor",
    "minimal",
    "metadata",
    "github",
    "metamatter"
  ],
  "license": {
    "name": "MIT License",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/licenses/mit"
  },
  "doi": "http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19630"
}