@ghuser/github-contribs

github-contribs

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

• not just the last few months,
• not just the repos owned by the user or their organisations.

$ 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.
35 repo(s) found:
AurelienLourot/lsankidb
reframejs/reframe
dracula/gitk
...

Installation

In construction. Not available on npm yet. For now do

$ git clone https://github.com/AurelienLourot/github-contribs.git
$ cd github-contribs/
$ yarn install
$ ./cli.js AurelienLourot

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

Team

This project is maintained by the following person(s) and a bunch of awesome contributors.

Aurelien Lourot

FAQ

How does it work?

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" on the profile pages queries such URLs in the background:

• https://github.com/users/AurelienLourot/created_commits?from=2018-05-17&to=2018-05-17
• https://github.com/users/AurelienLourot/created_repositories?from=2018-05-17&to=2018-05-17
• https://github.com/users/AurelienLourot/created_pull_requests?from=2018-05-17&to=2018-05-17
• https://github.com/users/AurelienLourot/created_pull_request_reviews?from=2018-05-17&to=2018-05-17

So we're doing the same :)

Why is it so slow?

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

Isn't it likely to break?

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