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Ask HN: List of projects leaving GitHub?

3 points by hungerstrike ↗ HN
I'd like to know which projects have left GitHub around the time of the Microsoft announcements. How can I get this information?

Is there a stream of newly created GitLab projects available? Even better - is there a stream of recently closed GitHub projects anywhere?

Thank you.

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mgliwka
GitLab exposes a list of newly created projects over it's API: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?order_by=created_at

And Github allows to search by commit hash: https://github.com/search?q=hash%3A04e699c8bc970423f243eca3e...

By combining those two you could get a list of projects which are on GitLab and on Github. Using the created_at on both APIs you could figure out which one was there first and which one has been imported/pushed onto the other platform.

(you would of course miss all projects which have been already deleted on Github, although forks should still exists which should help in most cases)