How can I find the created date of a project on GitHub?
Use the Repos GitHub API to retrieve this information
- Syntax:
https://api.github.com/repos/{:owner}/{:repository} - Example:
https://api.github.com/repos/libgit2/libgit2sharp
The JSON payload will expose a created_at member with the UTC date the repository was created.
Considering the LibGit2Sharp repository above, one can see that it’s been created on Feb, 2nd 2011 at 16:44:49 UTC.
Note: The created_at won’t necessarily reflect the date of the first commit. It’s the date the repository has been created on GitHub. For instance, the xunit/resharper-xunit project was recently moved from codeplex to GitHub. The created_at date is 2014-05-01T11:17:56Z, but the most of the commits date back much more farther than that.