{"id":35474,"date":"2025-09-15T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/open-dataset-40m-github-repositories-2015-mid-jul-2025-1m-sample-quickstart-notebook\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:27:29","slug":"open-dataset-40m-github-repositories-2015-mid-jul-2025-1m-sample-quickstart-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/open-dataset-40m-github-repositories-2015-mid-jul-2025-1m-sample-quickstart-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Dataset: 40M GitHub Repositories (2015\u2013mid-Jul 2025) + 1M Sample + Quickstart Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I made an open dataset of <strong>40M GitHub repositories<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I play with GitHub data for a long time. And I noticed there are almost no public <em>full<\/em> dumps with repository metadata: BigQuery gives ~3M with trimmed fields; GitHub API hits rate limits fast. So I collected what I was missing and decided to share \u2014 maybe it will make someone\u2019s life easier. The write-up explains details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How I built (short):<\/strong> GH Archive \u2192 joined events \u2192 extracted repository metadata. Snapshot covers <strong>2015 \u2192 mid-July 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s inside<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40M repos in <code>full<\/code> + <strong>1M<\/strong> in <code>sample<\/code> for quick try;<\/li>\n<li>fields: language, stars, forks, license, short description, description language, open issues, last PR index at snapshot date, size, <code>created_at<\/code>, etc.;<\/li>\n<li>\u201calive\u201d data with gaps, categorical\/numeric features, dates and short text \u2014 good for EDA and teaching;<\/li>\n<li>a Jupyter notebook for quick start (basic plots).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HuggingFace: <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/datasets\/ibragim-bad\/github-repos-metadata-40M\">link<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>GitHub: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ibragim-bad\/github-repos-metadata-40M\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who may find useful<\/strong><br \/> Students, teachers, juniors \u2014 for mini-research, visualizations, search\/cluster experiments. Feedback is welcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Fabulous_Pollution10\"> \/u\/Fabulous_Pollution10 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nhqiy8\/open_dataset_40m_github_repositories_2015midjul\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nhqiy8\/open_dataset_40m_github_repositories_2015midjul\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-35474 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='35474' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-35474 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-35474 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made an open dataset of 40M GitHub repositories. I play with GitHub data for a long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}