Comparison table for open-source self-hosted commenting servers (lisakov.com/projects/open-source-comments/). Inspired by staticsitegenerators.net.

• The data are stored in data.yaml. This file is edited manually.

• get_gh_data.py:

  • creates apigh/<YYYY-MM-DD>/ directory if does not exist;
  • downloads (using system curl) https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo and https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/commits/master to the created directory;
  • reads these files and updates data.yaml for the following:
    • Github stars,
    • Github stars in the latest N days,
    • latest commit date,
    • creation date,
    • license.

• yaml_2_js.py converts data.yaml to data.js (it defines two variables — osc_data and cols).

• index.html reads data.js and parses it to the html table using datatables.js.

• The webpage is updated daily at 17:00 UTC via cron. updater.sh runs get_gh_data.py, then yaml_2_js.py, then deploys the updated files, then updates the repo.

Clone the repo and open index.html in your browser. To change it, edit index.md and run python3 md_to_html.py. It will overwrite existing index.html.

After modifying data.yaml, run python3 yaml_2_js.py. It will update the data.js file.

• Check and add the information to make the table useful. I would appreciate adding a missing demo.

• Improve the python code.

• get_gh_data.py: retry to get the api data if response contains "message": "Server Error".

• Show column descriptions on mouse over.

• Where do I find a number of opened and closed issues? For example, https://api.github.com/users/posativ/isso has open_issues_count and open_issues, both equal to 131, whereas there are 110 issues and 21 PR.

• apigh/<date> folders store a lot of information which is never used. Need to extract only needed info from the files and remove the rest.

• Plot stars vs. time for several top commenting systems. Update the plot daily automatically.

• Get rid of yaml, convert data.yaml to data.json

Contributions are welcome. Fork the repo and send PR, submit an issue, or leave a comment at the website.