List all public gitHub repositories as links

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17419031

  •  02-06-2022
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Question

I need an index-page, that shows links to all gitHub repositories.

I think that is the reason, why many repos are not found by crawlers like the Waybackmachine

I think if there was such a site with a high ranking, they would start crawling it

The developer site sais, there is an Api for getting all repos

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Solution

Warning: GitHub hosts a huge number of repositories. You'll have to take this into account when designing your index.

I can think of a few options:

  • The legacy GitHub search API. You'll have to cope with the API rate limit though.
  • This StackOverflow answer could be a good start to get a rough grasp of the number of repos per language.
  • Leveraging the GitHub Archive project which records the public GitHub timeline. (Note: As the project only exposes events back from February 12, 2011, you won't get any data about repositories showing no activity since this date.)
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