Firefox extension showing similar repositories on Github (addons.mozilla.org)

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Cross-posted from "Extension showing similar repositories on Github" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

I created an extension adding a “Similar repositories” section to the sidebar of any public GitHub repository with more than 150 stars. It allows you to discover related open-source projects without leaving the page.

It's also open-source! https://github.com/Mubelotix/SimRepo

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Why is this 110MB though?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Because it stores the ML model. Everything is local

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thx for your answer, makes sense! I was already wondering how the recommendations are generated. Maybe you can put this in the readme as well? I think that will make it more clear what a user can expect.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Great idea, thank you for your feedback! I generated embeddings for repositories using a SVC model trained on a dataset containing almost all stars of Github. Recommendations are produced by finding the nearest neighbors in the resulting vectorial space. I might be improving this even further by including forks and watcher data in the future, but it's becoming expensive to train

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