Studying historical GitHub datasets allows you to identify trends over time and answer questions about the larger state of open-source software development.
Here is a curated list of academic datasets containing historical GitHub data:
| Name | URL | Dataset Type |
|---|---|---|
| GHTorrent | http://ghtorrent.org/ | MySQL and Mongo database dumps of the GitHub event stream |
| GHTorrent - BigQuery | http://ghtorrent.org/gcloud.html | Access to GHTorrent data via BigQuery |
| GH Archive | https://www.gharchive.org/ | Compressed JSON dumps of the GitHub event stream |
| GH Archive - BigQuery | https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/githubarchive:day.20190827?pli=1&tab=preview | Access to GH Archive data via BigQuery |
| GitHub - BigQuery | https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/github/github-repos?filter=solution-type:dataset&id=46ee22ab-2ca4-4750-81a7-3ee0f0150dcb | Access to a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories via BigQuery |