Hackathon judges, hiring managers, and open-source maintainers all ask the same question fast: is this repo alive and looked-after? Eyeballing every repo — commits, license, README, open issues — is slow.

So I built a tool that turns that into one number plus a fix-list. This is Day 4 of my SolveFromZero series (real problems, small tools).

One API call gives you almost everything

const r = await fetch(`https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${name}`);

const data = await r.json();