| ---
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| license: cc-by-4.0
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| task_categories:
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| - text-retrieval
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| tags:
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| - github
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| - code
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| - metadata
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| - software-engineering
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| - open-source
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| - astronomy
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| - machine-learning
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| size_categories:
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| - 1M<n<10M
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| configs:
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| - config_name: default
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| data_files:
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| - split: train
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| path: data/train-*.parquet
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| ---
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|
|
| # GitHub All Repositories Metadata Dataset (>= 3 Stars)
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| A comprehensive metadata dataset covering **5,289,726 public GitHub repositories** with **3 or more stars (>= 3)** spanning the history of GitHub from 2008 to 2026.
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|
|
| ## Data Recency & Snapshot Notice
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|
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| > [!NOTE]
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| > - **Snapshot Methodology:** This dataset combines a comprehensive historical base archive (up to mid-2022) with continuous periodic crawler snapshots (2023 through 2026).
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| > - **Star Counts & Metrics:** Star counts and repository metrics reflect the recorded values at the time of each repository's latest crawl/snapshot. Actively maintained projects may have higher live star counts on GitHub.com today.
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| > - **Coverage:** Includes active and historical repositories created between 2008 and 2026.
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|
|
| ---
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|
|
| ## Key Features
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| - **Total Repositories:** 5,289,726
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| - **Rich Topics & Descriptions:** Native tag arrays (`topics`), repo descriptions, licenses, homepage links, and star/fork metrics.
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| - **Fast Search:** Designed for instant topical search (e.g., Astronomy, BioInformatics, WebAssembly, Robotics, Machine Learning) using DuckDB, Polars, or Hugging Face `datasets`.
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| - **Deduplicated & Cleaned:** Deduplicated by `owner/repo`, prioritized by latest activity and rich metadata.
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|
|
| ---
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|
|
| ## Dataset Schema
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| | Column | Type | Example | Description |
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| | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
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| | `full_name` | `string` | `astropy/astropy` | Full repository name (`owner/repo`) |
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| | `owner` | `string` | `astropy` | Organization or username |
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| | `name` | `string` | `astropy` | Repository name |
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| | `description`| `string` | `Astronomy and astrophysics core library for Python` | Repository description |
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| | `topics` | `list<string>` | `['astronomy', 'astrophysics', 'python', 'fits']` | List of repository topic tags |
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| | `language` | `string` | `Python` | Primary programming language |
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| | `stars` | `int64` | `4820` | Recorded stargazer count at snapshot |
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| | `forks` | `int64` | `1540` | Recorded fork count at snapshot |
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| | `license` | `string` | `bsd-3-clause` | Open source license key |
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| | `homepage` | `string` | `https://www.astropy.org` | Project homepage / website |
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| | `created_at` | `timestamp` | `2011-08-25 21:00:00` | Repository creation date |
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| | `last_active`| `timestamp` | `2026-06-15 12:30:00` | Most recent activity / push date |
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|
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| ---
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|
|
| ## Quickstart: How to Find Projects (e.g., Astronomy)
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|
| ### 1. Using Hugging Face `datasets` (Streaming / No full download required)
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| ```python
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| from datasets import load_dataset
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| # Stream the dataset directly from Hugging Face
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| ds = load_dataset("Mieaz/github-repos-metadata-ge3", split="train", streaming=True)
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|
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| # Find all repositories with 'astronomy' or 'astrophysics'
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| astronomy_repos = []
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| for repo in ds:
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| topics = [t.lower() for t in (repo.get("topics") or [])]
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| desc = (repo.get("description") or "").lower()
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|
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| if "astronomy" in topics or "astronomy" in desc or "astrophysics" in topics:
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| astronomy_repos.append(repo)
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| if len(astronomy_repos) >= 20:
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| break
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|
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| for r in astronomy_repos:
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| print(f"⭐ {r['stars']:>5} | {r['full_name']:<35} | {r['description'][:60]}")
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| ```
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|
|
| ### 2. Using DuckDB (Instant SQL Queries on Remote Parquet)
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| ```python
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| import duckdb
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|
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| con = duckdb.connect()
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| query = '''
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| SELECT full_name, stars, language, description, topics
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| FROM 'hf://datasets/Mieaz/github-repos-metadata-ge3/data/train-*.parquet'
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| WHERE list_contains(topics, 'astronomy')
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| OR description ILIKE '%astronomy%'
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| ORDER BY stars DESC
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| LIMIT 15;
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| '''
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| print(con.execute(query).df())
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| ```
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|
|
| ---
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|
|
| ## License & Attribution
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| - Data compiled from public open-source event logs and repository records under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).
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