How can I find the created date of a project on GitHub?
Basically, I have to find the first commit to see the created date, however, some projects have 500 commits, whi
@nulltoken's answer is very useful. To make it even more convenient, I decided to create a chrome extension for displaying a date of creation of a repository.
Highlights
Date of creation of a repository is displaying on the summary bar:
Date format is customizable by clicking at the extension icon:
This's working really well for me. I hope it's useful for you as well.
how to know the created date of a project on GitHub.
Use the Repos GitHub API to retrieve this information
https://api.github.com/repos/{:owner}/{:repository}
https://api.github.com/repos/libgit2/libgit2sharp
The JSON payload will expose a created_at
member with the UTC date the repository was created.
Considering the LibGit2Sharp repository above, one can see that it's been created on Feb, 2nd 2011 at 16:44:49 UTC.
Note: The created_at
won't necessarily reflect the date of the first commit. It's the date the repository has been created on GitHub. For instance, the xunit/resharper-xunit
project was recently moved from codeplex to GitHub. The created_at
date is 2014-05-01T11:17:56Z
, but the most of the commits date back much more farther than that.