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# Search for code containing the term "_cache" in repositories owned by @jasonrudolph
curl -G -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.preview.text-match" \
  https://api.github.com/search/code --data-urlencode "q=@jasonrudolph _cache"

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James Sugrue [asked][1], "@GitHubAPI is there a way to find the number of stars for a given repository?"

Example

$ curl -ni "https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=more+useful+keyboard" -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview'

{

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5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

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A curl example to help explain this Stack Overflow question related to creating a new branch via the GitHub Git Refs API:

Get the SHA of latest commit on the master branch

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/jasonrudolph/sandbox/git/refs/heads/master \
    -H "Authorization: token REDACTED"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

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curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.star+json" https://api.github.com/users/glaforge/starred

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curl https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom/stargazers -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.star+json'

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Repository redirects are coming to the GitHub API, and this functionality is now available for developers to preview. Let's try it out.

First, we need a repository that has been renamed or relocated. Since jasonrudolph/jasonrudolph.github.io was previously named jasonrudolph/jasonrudolph.com, we can use it as our guinea pig. 🌍🐖

We'll use curl for all of our examples below, and we'll include the --location option to instruct curl to follow any redirects that it encounters.

The Present

Using the current production version of the GitHub API, when we attempt to [access the repository](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get

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Sample timings (in seconds)

Sample timings using Heroku CI for a small-ish Rails 6 app on various Heroku dyno types:

Dyno Type	Run 1 Duration	Run 2 Duration	Run 3 Duration	Average Duration
standard-1x	312	213	303	276
standard-2x	227	121	222	190
performance-m	162	164	175	167
performance-l	100	104	107	104