Language

A Language record contains the name and various statistics related to a programming language.

Language statistics are updated daily.

id: The unique ID of the language.
name: A short, unique name for the language. Primarily for internal Ohloh use.
nice_name: A human-friendly name for the language.
category: Either code, markup, or build, which indicates that the language is either a “standard” programming language, a document markup language such as XML, or a build script such as a makefile.
code: The total net lines of code, excluding comments and blank lines, written in this language across all projects on Ohloh.
comments: The total net comment lines written in this language across all projects on Ohloh.
blanks: The total net blank lines in this language across all projects on Ohloh.
comment_ratio: A precomputed floating-point value for the percent of lines in this language that are comments, across all projects on Ohloh.
projects: The total number of Projects on Ohloh which currently include at least one line in this language.
contributors: The total number of contributors on Ohloh who have written at least one line of code in this language that still exists today.
commits: The total number of commits on Ohloh which include at least one line in this language.

To get a single Language:

GET http://www.ohloh.net/languages/{language_id}.xml

To get a paginated list of all Languages:

GET http://www.ohloh.net/languages.xml

The Language collection request supports the standard collection request parameters, with the following sort options:

total: Results are sort by the total source lines, including comments and blanks, from highest to lowest.
code: Results are sorted by code lines only from highest to lowest.
projects: Results are sorted by the number of projects, from highest to lowest.
comment_ratio: Results are sorted by comment_ratio from highest to lowest.; Results are sorted by the number of Projects, from highest to lowest.
contributors: Results are sorted by the number of contributors, from highest to lowest
commits: Results are sorted by the number of commits, from highest to lowest.
name (default): Results are sorted alphabetically by nice_name.