Dev API
Programmatic access to the Dev feed: GitHub repos gaining traction (scraped from an upstream GitHub-activity board and enriched from the GitHub API), with board context and metadata for spotting new technologies and patterns.
Conventions
- Base URL:
https://intelligence.flatnine.co/api - Error format:
{"error": "<message>"}with HTTP 4xx/5xx; happy responses are 200. - Pagination:
limit+offsetfor shallow paging; responses carrytotalwhere applicable. The launch feeds also return an opaquenext_cursor- pass it back ascursor=for stable, efficient deep paging (keep filters andsortidentical between pages;nullmeans the last page). - Time: all timestamps are UTC.
- Auth: data endpoints require an API key - send it as
Authorization: Bearer <key>,X-API-Key: <key>, or?api_key=<key>. The map/graph viz endpoints and the health ping are open. Missing/invalid key returns401. - Rate limits: 60 req/min and 600 req/hr per IP (
X-RateLimit-*headers;429+Retry-Afterover the cap).
dev / feed
GitHub repos gaining traction, scraped from an upstream GitHub-activity board (Most Stars + Top users' latest star) and enriched from the GitHub API. One row per repo with board context (which sections surfaced it, best rank) and GitHub metadata (stars, language, topics, license, created_at - the "is this new" signal).
Parameters
section- board section: most_stars | top_users_star
language- GitHub primary language, e.g. TypeScript, Rust, Python
owner_type- user | org
created_days- only repos created within N days (the brand-new signal)
min_stars- minimum stargazer count
has_topics- 1 = only repos that declare GitHub topics
q- free-text across full_name, description, topics, summary
sort- recent_seen (default) | stars | newest | name
limit- 1-200, default 50
offset- pagination offset, default 0
Example
curl -s 'https://intelligence.flatnine.co/api?method=dev&endpoint=feed&created_days=30&sort=stars&limit=20'Response shape
{"repos": [{"full_name": "owner/repo", "url": "https://github.com/owner/repo", "sections": ["top_users_star"], "best_rank": 1, "first_seen": "...", "github": {"stars": 33557, "language": "TypeScript", "topics": [...], "license": "MIT", "created_at": "2026-01-18T21:45:37Z", "owner_type": "User", ...}, "classification": null}], "total": 13, "limit": 20, "offset": 0}