Make a call to /repos/:owner/:repo and read the default_branch property value – this is the name of the default branch. See example response here: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get
GitHub seems to use their API to write the trending page and don’t present it back as a particular API. You need to use the Repository Search API. I’ve followed the examples on this page, which could solve your needs by: # We’ll use the `date` command to get the date for “7 days ago” … Read more
You need to use page parameter, e.g. for next 30 page = 2 https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=stress+test+label:bug+language:python+state:closed&page=2 You can also use per_page parameter to change the default size of 30. It supports max size of 100. Like this: https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=stress+test+label:bug+language:python+state:closed&per_page=100 More detail can be found here
I have encountered the exact same problem. I did manage to acquire all the commits for all branches within a repository (probably not that efficient due to the API). Approach to retrieve all commits for all branches in a repository As you mentioned, first you gather all the branches: # https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/branches https://api.github.com/repos/twitter/bootstrap/branches The key that … Read more
I found out why this occurs and how to resolve it. According to the docs: Note: The returned email is the user’s publicly visible email address (or null if the user has not specified a public email address in their profile). In your GitHub profile settings, under Public email, some users (including myself) have that … Read more
You can append .png to the URL for the User’s profile to get redirected to their avatar. You can add the query param size to specify a size smaller than the default of 460px wide (i.e. it won’t allow larger than 460). Examples: https://github.com/twbs.png https://github.com/npm.png?size=200 https://github.com/github.png?size=40