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zenorocha/jquery-github
A jQuery plugin to display your Github Repositories
A jQuery plugin that fetches a GitHub repo's metadata via the public API and renders a styled widget on your page. Dead simple drop-in for personal portfolio or project pages circa 2013. Last touched in 2016, depends on Bower, and assumes the unauthenticated GitHub API v3.
Zero configuration — one data attribute and one jQuery call and you get a working widget. Includes a Zepto alternative so it wasn't purely jQuery-locked. Has a Jasmine test spec, which is more than most micro-plugins of this era bothered with. MIT licensed with clean, minimal source.
The unauthenticated GitHub API this relies on now has a 60 req/hour rate limit per IP, so any page with real traffic will hit 403s silently. No token support, no error handling surfaced to the user. Abandoned for a decade — Bower is end-of-life, the jQuery Plugin Registry is gone, and the Travis CI badge points to a dead service. There's no way to display more than one repo widget without multiple plugin calls hitting separate API endpoints, and the display is hardcoded HTML with no templating hook.