code-archive
GH Archive
A running record of public activity on GitHub: the public event timeline has been archived hourly since 2011, amounting to billions of events. It is a bulk dataset rather than a search site, you download gzipped JSON files per hour or query the public BigQuery dataset; there is no per-record search API or web search form. Researchers reach for it to analyze or reconstruct historical GitHub activity offline.
Keine programmatische Prüfung, öffnet die eigene Suche des Archivs.
Warum es nützlich ist & wie es funktioniert
GH Archive captures the public GitHub event stream and has archived it hourly since January 2011, making it the most complete longitudinal record of open-source activity on the platform. Researchers reach for it to answer questions about the history of GitHub itself: when did a repository first appear, how did contributor activity change over time, how did a particular event type evolve? The dataset is distributed as gzipped JSON files downloadable by hour and day, and is also available as a public dataset on Google BigQuery for SQL-style analysis. There is no per-record web search; Echo links you to the project page and the BigQuery dataset for further exploration.
Was drinsteckt
Billions of public GitHub events spanning more than a decade, organised by hour. The full dataset runs to tens of terabytes and grows by roughly one file per hour around the clock.
API-Zugang
bulk gzip JSON https://data.gharchive.org/YYYY-MM-DD-H.json.gz ; BigQuery public dataset
Zugang
Freely reachable, no key, login, or captcha.