How to Capture Data From GitHub's Public API

Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa & Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration between the two companies to expand GitHub’s public dataset, adding query capabilities that have never been possible before, example queries, and more!

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Featuring:

• Arfon Smith – Website, GitHub, X
• Felipe Hoffa – GitHub, X
• Will Curran – Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

This show was produced in collaboration with GitHub and Google to announce the big expansion to GitHub’s public dataset on BigQuery.

• The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya Grigorik
• GitHub announcement
• Google Cloud Blog announcement
• Google Open Source Blog announcement
• Felipe Hoffa - GitHub on BigQuery: Analyze all the code
• GitHub public dataset — This 3TB+ dataset comprises the largest released source of GitHub activity to date. It contains a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories including more than 145 million unique commits, over 2 billion different file paths, and the contents of the latest revision for 163 million files, all of which are searchable with regular expressions.
• NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data
• USA Name Data
• Google BigQuery
• Gist: BigQuery Examples from Arfon Smith
• Shawn Pearce (Google) - the unsung hero at Google who did all the hard work getting the data pipeline working for this new dataset
• Email bq-public-data@google.com to talk with Will and BigQuery’s public dataset team

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!