package popularity is something we’ve added to our index for nixos-search using info from repology.org and reverse package dependency counts - so that kind of approach could be viable.
on that topic, feel free to join in over there as well. 
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Yes, thanks! Your approach could actually be very useful for me. Would it be possible to make repology-counts.json publicly accessible, or would it be better for me to use the nixos-search#flake-info -- repology-counts command myself? 
I just don’t want to put unnecessary load on the Repology API. Also, it looks like your user agent is hardcoded in repology.rs, so I’m not sure whether it would be appropriate for me to use it directly.
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thanks, that’s a good point, we hadn’t seen many requests like this from similar websites, so hadn’t even realized we weren’t facilitating reuse yet.
i’ve now:
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