### Find the hottest repositories created in the last week

Keep an eye on the latest trending repos.

```sh
# We'll use the `date` command to get the date for "7 days ago"
$ date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'
# => 2013-07-15

$ curl -G https://api.github.com/search/repositories       \
    --data-urlencode "q=created:>`date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'`" \
    --data-urlencode "sort=stars"                          \
    --data-urlencode "order=desc"                          \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.preview"            \
    | jq ".items[0,1,2] | {name, description, language, watchers_count, html_url}"
```

```json
{
  "html_url": "https://github.com/mame/quine-relay",
  "watchers_count": 2492,
  "language": "Ruby",
  "description": "An uroboros program with 50 programming languages",
  "name": "quine-relay"
}
{
  "html_url": "https://github.com/jehna/VerbalExpressions",
  "watchers_count": 483,
  "language": "JavaScript",
  "description": "JavaScript Regular expressions made easy",
  "name": "VerbalExpressions"
}
{
  "html_url": "https://github.com/applidium/ADTransitionController",
  "watchers_count": 340,
  "language": "Objective-C",
  "description": "UINavigationController with custom transitions",
  "name": "ADTransitionController"
}
```

Check out the [Repository Search API docs][1] for more details.

[1]: http://developer.github.com/v3/search/#search-repositories