Global (not per account) GitHub API

[Tymoniasty]

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Hi all,

I am in a process of writing a paper for college and I would like to use GitHub as a source of data for some statistics.
I wonder if there is a possibility of running API calls for whole GitHub (for example I would like to find a list of the most used repositories, so I can see the information on number of collaborators number of commits etc).

I am new to APIs but I am happy to learn.
I have the URL to the GitHub API documentation - but I would like to know if the above is even possible?

Currently, I managed to run some calls for my repos or where I could specify organisations.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

[byrneh]

The REST API does have access to all of GitHub.com (public data),
Specfic APIs may limit results based on the filters stated in the API documentaion.

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