On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 23:53:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 8/22/2018 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I don't argue against the usefulness of the features that
> github provides, but I'm also wary of the fact that it's
> basically a walled garden -- there's no simple way I know of
> to extract data like pull requests, comments,
> cross-references, etc.. I mean, it's *possible* to write a
> web crawler that does just that, but such functionality is
> second-class, and one might argue, that it is possible at
> all is merely a happy accident, since github's very design
> seems to be geared at drawing people to centralize
> everything on github. It's not quite at the point of vendor
> lock-in, but it's certainly uncomfortably close, in my view.
As for github comments, they get echoed to me as emails. So I
have an email archive of them.
That's good to know.
Still, an export function that will give you your data in some
computer-parseable format would have been nice.
T
They have an API for taht, and it looks like people have made
programs to create backups of it with the api.
https://developer.github.com/v3/
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/github-backup
