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A running record of public activity on GitHub: the public event timeline has been archived hourly since 2011, amounting to billions of events.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.
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Son utilité et son fonctionnement
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.
Ce qu’elle contient
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.
Accès API
bulk gzip JSON https://data.gharchive.org/YYYY-MM-DD-H.json.gz ; BigQuery public dataset
Accès
Freely reachable, no key, login, or captcha.