github-contribs

NOTE: This project is derivative work of (@ghuser/github-contribs)[https://github.com/ghuser-io/github-contribs]

List all GitHub repos a user has contributed to since the beginning:

* not just the last few months,
* not just the repos owned by the user or their organisations,
* simply all repos a user has ever pushed to.

``bash
$ github-contribs AurelienLourot
✔ Fetched first day at GitHub: 2015-04-04.
⚠ Be patient. The whole process might take up to an hour... Consider using --since and/or --until
✔ Fetched all commits and PRs. Consider using --issues to fetch issues as well.
35 repo(s) found:
AurelienLourot/lsankidb
reframejs/reframe
dracula/gitk
...
`

⇒ Advanced usage

Installation

`bash
$ sudo npm install -g @ghuser/github-contribs
`

Contributing

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To run your local changes:

`bash
$ yarn install
$ ./cli.js --help
`

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Aditya Giri 🚇 ⚠️ 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

FAQ

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Normally in order to retrieve all repositories a user has interacted with, one should query the
GitHub Events API. Unfortunately it returns
only the last 90 days, so we don't use it.

Instead we noticed that the "Contribution Activity" section's content on the
profile pages comes from URLs like
https://github.com/AurelienLourot?from=2018-10-09 .

So we're fetching these URLs too and parsing their output.

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We hit a rate limit. And since it's not an official
API, we can't use a token to raise the limit.

> NOTE: the rate limit seems to be 40 requests / minute / endpoint / IP. Thus even if crawling a
> single user takes about 3 hours on a single machine, crawling many users in parallel on that same
> machine should still take about 3 hours.

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Yes, it is since that interface isn't public. We're monitoring it¹ and will
react as fast as we can when it breaks.

¹ ghuser.io runs
this tool every day.

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github-contribs` can only discover commits considered as
GitHub contributions,
i.e. commits that would also appear in the activity section of your GitHub profile. For example it
doesn't discover commits in forks.

Similar/Related projects

* GitHub-contributions: uses a different
technique. It fetches all the user's pull requests from the official API. This is clever but will
miss the repos to which the user has pushed directly without pull request.
* gharchive.org: records all GitHub events for all users. In theory it
should be possible to replace our implementation by queries to this huge database.
* @ghuser/github-contribs: is inspiration for this
project. Original is no longer maintained.