[zoidb]

Funny thing i almost did exactly this until i realized you can use rss which can also watch directories easily enough for example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentati... . Also unfortunately i found that using the api is probably not going to scale if a lot of people want to use it and local clones are pretty expensive.

[krallin]

Ha, interesting trick! : )

The GitHub API allows up to 5,000 requests per hour. I currently poll once an hour, so there's a bit of headway. If that becomes a problem, I think I can always space out checks for less-active repositories (there's also the option of allowing users to authenticate with GitHub and use their own quota so they don't have to share it with anyone else).

Cheers