Under the hood is scc tool, a fast and accurate code counter that supports over 300 languages and multiple output formats. We are grateful to the developers of scc for creating such a powerful and reliable tool. You can learn more about scc and its features on its GitHub page.
You can also use this service from terminal browsers, such as lynx, or as an API, by sending a request with curl and getting a human-readable response.
curl is a command-line utility that allows you to send requests to an API. To send a request with curl to this service, you need to use the following syntax:
curl https://cloc.info/[git_host]/[git_owner]/[git_repo]where
If you want to count lines of code for the repository https://gthub.com/intel/tinycrypt, just add to
$curlhttps://cloc.info/github.com/intel/tinycrypt
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language Files Lines Blanks Comments Code Complexity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C 27 17138 1463 1749 13926 964 C Header 17 2695 256 1912 527 11 Makefile 4 162 35 36 91 0 License 1 61 15 0 46 0 ReStructuredText 1 352 106 0 246 0 gitignore 1 5 0 0 5 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 51 20413 1875 3697 14841 975 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Cost to Develop (organic) $458,808 Estimated Schedule Effort (organic) 10.23 months Estimated People Required (organic) 3.98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processed 717583 bytes, 0.718 megabytes (SI) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This command will return a table with the number of lines of code for each programming language in the repository, as well as some metrics, such as the estimated cost of development, the estimated time of completion, and the estimated number of people required.
You can use the same syntax for any other git platform, such as gitlab.com or bitbucket.org,
just by replacing
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