Get sorted github repository search results by “some” attribute(the number of forks or stars)

Question

How to get github search results sorted by the number of forks or stars?

I need this feature to demonstrate which project is the hottest among those that target the

Answer 1

GitHub supports the "Lucene query syntax".

See @VonC's answer here:

GitHub advanced search default behaviour

and

http://www.lucenetutorial.com/lucene-query-syntax.html

But Lucene doesn't support ordering.

Answer 2

Update of the Update (February 2013, source "Sortable Stars"):

Starting today you can sort your starred repositories by when you starred them or when the repositories were last updated.

So the sort criteria is now visible.

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Update January 2013 (source: "A whole new code search")

Searching by number of forks seems now to return a result ordered by number of forks

django- forks:>500

This is confirmed by the blog post "Sorting through Search Results" (January 31, 2013):

If you're searching through repositories, you can sort by stars, forks, or recently-updated

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(Original answer: Sept. 2012)

I don't see any sort option in GitHub advanced search.

The forks: filter is to indicate a precise number of fork, like this query would display the 4 repos with 100 forks for "django-". But that doesn't display all repo above 100 forks, and that doesn't sort them.