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2 points by tradrich 1402 days ago
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Github's Rest API [1] is actually quite complex - and has undocumented hurdles. E.g. when there's more than 40K stars the API caps it there - unless you use the GraphQL API... [2]

There is a wealth of info available through the API.

I used it to work out preferred projects for quants and algotraders [3]. Strangely this work got picked up by a recruitment news site [4] because it revealed surprising programming language usage.

There's a lot more meat on the Github bones. Stay tuned.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/rest [2] https://docs.github.com/en/graphql [3] https://profitview.net/blog/open-source-trading-projects [4] https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/07/coding-langua...