GitHub Lines of Code

You should authenticate with Github to raise API rate limits from 60/hr to 5000/hr. To do so, create a new application using the following values:

• Application name: GitHub Lines of Code
• Homepage URL: your URL, e.g. http://localhost/ or https://icecreamyou.github.io/GitHub-Tools
• Description: up to you, or just leave this blank
• Authorization callback URL: this isn't used so just pick something like http://localhost/oauth

When you're done, you'll get a client ID and client secret. If you're setting up your own instance of GitHub Lines of Code, copy-paste those values into config.js. Otherwise, change the URL of this page to include the values like this, replacing CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET with your corresponding tokens:

https://icecreamyou.github.io/GitHub-Tools/?client_id=CLIENT_ID&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET

Note that "lines of code" by itself is a very weak measure of experience at best, and not an indicator of quality. Different programming languages have orders of magnitude different verbosity, and well-designed code is often less verbose than poorly-designed code. Additionally, this page counts comments, documentation, and other non-code text in its accounting. It also counts libraries/frameworks included directly in a repository and automatically generated build files (for example, concatenated or minified JavaScript) so not all of the code counted here was necessarily written by the user in question.