# leereilly/swot

Archived — SWOT delighted millions of students with GitHub discounts and saved bazillions of review hours. Follow JetBrains/swot  for future updates.

Repository: https://github.com/leereilly/swot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/swot
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ruby, academia, education, github
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-09-13T20:17:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 41, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5328, "days_push": 354, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1181, forks 37808 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:53.999574+00:00)

## What it is
Swot is a Ruby library for verifying that email addresses and domain names belong to legitimate academic institutions, using a crowdsourced dataset. It was the backbone of GitHub Education's student verification and is now archived in favor of JetBrains/swot.

## Use cases
- verify student email addresses for academic discounts
- check if a domain belongs to a university
- automate eligibility checks for education pricing
- validate .edu and international academic domains
- detect academic email domains without a TLD-specific suffix

## When to choose
- you need to verify academic email addresses in a Ruby application
- you want a crowdsourced dataset of academic domains worldwide
- you're maintaining legacy code that already uses swot

## When to avoid
- you're starting a new project - use the actively maintained JetBrains/swot fork instead
- you need a non-Ruby implementation without porting
- you need guaranteed up-to-date academic domain data

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: form-handling, developer-tools
- domain: education, developer-tools
- platform: ruby
- tags: academic-verification, email-validation, domain-verification, student-discounts, archived

## Member repositories
- leereilly/swot (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.999574+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:25:12.085313+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/leereilly/swot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:53.999574+00:00, sha 9c33a0181640)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.