When you submit a GitHub repository link or a code snippet to CodeGPT, it can to generate a line-by-line summary of the repo in plain text. This allows developers to quickly understand the project and start contributing.
When a GitHub repository link is submitted, our app uses the GitHub API to walk through all files within the repository and retrieve the code in each file. Using a fine-tuned CodeT5 code-to-text model from Hugging Face, all code within the repository can be summarized. The original code and its corresponding summarization are displayed side-by-side, allowing developers to understand the code segments easily. If the user creates an account on our application, it also stores all past searches to allow easy future access.
We built our web application using Python with Flask framework, HTML, Tailwind CSS, MongoDB Atlas for the database and downloaded a CodeT5-base model for code summarization.
