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GitHub API

Robert Reiz
December 14, 2013

GitHub API

A short intro to the GitHub API.
I created this slides for the GIT MeetUp in Berlin in Dezember 2013.

Robert Reiz

December 14, 2013
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  1. Use Cases • Login • Fetching Repositories / Files •

    Crawling Licenses / Change logs and more • Fetching commit dates from tags (release dates)
  2. Rate Limit • 50 per Hour for unauthenticated requests •

    5000 per Hour for authenticated requests
  3. Exceptions • GitHub API can be down • Tokens can

    be revoked • Rate limit can exceed faster then you think • The API can change