[avita1]

Is this practically true? Yes, anyone can clone any repo from Github, but surely scraping all of Github would run into rate limits?

The terms and conditions say as much https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

[vineyardmike]

Well today you get to learn about the GitHub Archive project, which creates dumps of all GitHub data.

One example is the data hosted in Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-datasets/github-...