Github API - retrieve user commits?

Question

I\'m trying build a method in which I can access a Github user name, and publish either all commits or at least a number of commits from that user.

Is there a call to GE

Answer 1

UPDATE 2018-11-12

The URLs mentioned below have now moved to a single URL that looks like https://github.com/AurelienLourot?from=2018-10-09 but the idea remains the same. See github-contribs.

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As pointed out by others, the official API won't allow you to get all GitHub repos a user has contributed to since the beginning of time.

Still you can get that information by querying unofficial pages and parsing them in a loop:

• 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

(Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer.)

This is exactly what github-contribs does for you:

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