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GHTorrent: Github's data from a firehose

Gousios, Georgios, Spinellis, D.·2012·2012 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
DOI 10.1109/msr.2012.6224294
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A common requirement of many empirical software engineering studies is the acquisition and curation of data from software repositories. During the last few years, GitHub has emerged as a popular project hosting, mirroring and collaboration platform. GitHub provides an extensive REST API, which enables researchers to retrieve both the commits to the projects' repositories and events generated through user actions on project resources. GHTorrent aims to create a scalable off line mirror of GitHub's event streams and persistent data, and offer it to the research community as a service. In this paper, we present the project's design and initial implementation and demonstrate how the provided datasets can be queried and processed.

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Authors
Gousios, G., & Spinellis, D.
Venue
2012 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2012-06
Pages
12-21
DOI
10.1109/msr.2012.6224294
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202
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conference paper
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Gousios, G., & Spinellis, D. (2012). GHTorrent: Github's data from a firehose. 2012 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). https://doi.org/10.1109/msr.2012.6224294

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