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Hello, folks! Today’s issue has everything from CSS donuts to automating GitHub searches. Let’s get creative:

• CSS Donuts: Solve design challenges with creative donut-shaped scopes.

• Invoker Commands: Enhance interactions with dialog and popover commands.

• HTTP Tunnel in JS: Build proxies and tunnels with JavaScript.

• Static Search: Make search work seamlessly with Pagefind.

• GitHub Automation: Use Node.js to find AI-powered JS repositories effortlessly.

• Node Toolbox Picks: 4 of the best new tools you need to try.

• Solved by CSS: Donuts Scopes

• Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover…

• HTTP Tunnel and Proxy in JavaScript

• Static Search with Pagefind

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Automate GitHub Searches for AI-Powered JavaScript Repositories with Node.js

Discovering the perfect AI and JavaScript projects on GitHub doesn’t have to be a manual slog. With Node.js, Axios, and Cheerio, you can build a smart web crawler to automate the search, extracting repository details like names, URLs, and descriptions.

The Script at a Glance

Here’s how to build your GitHub crawler:

1. Set Up the Project: Initialize a Node.js project and install axios and cheerio

npm install axios cheerio

2. Define the Search URL: Target GitHub repositories related to AI and JavaScript:

const SEARCH_URL = 'https://github.com/search?q=ai+language:javascript&type=repositories';

3. Fetch and Parse Results

const axios = require('axios');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');

const fetchRepositories = async () => {
    const { data } = await axios.get(SEARCH_URL);
    const $ = cheerio.load(data);
    const repositories = [];

    $('.repo-list-item').each((_, element) => {
        const name = $(element).find('a').text().trim();
        const url = `https://github.com${$(element).find('a').attr('href')}`;
        const description = $(element).find('.mb-1').text().trim();

        repositories.push({ name, url, description });
    });

    return repositories;
};

(async () => {
    console.log(await fetchRepositories());
})();

This script fetches the GitHub search page, parses the HTML, and extracts repository details.

In just a few lines of code, you’ve built a tool to automate GitHub searches, saving time and uncovering hidden gems in AI and JavaScript. Ready to level up? Add filters, monitor trends, or expand to other programming languages—the possibilities are endless. Happy coding!

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