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TL;DR: github makes it easy to notice when events have occured, so easy that you can write tools to copy information as soon as it hits. This is a bit more nua
by sheetjs 12y ago
TL;DR: github makes it easy to notice when events have occured, so easy that you can write tools to copy information as soon as it hits.
This is a bit more nuanced than your summary because GH makes it easy. Without the events API, you would have to poll the various repos to find out if changes happened
Furthermore, the existence of GHTorrent demonstrates the ease with which this information can be harvested
- rilita 12y agoSo what you are saying is that because Github provides a clean API we should be more careful about posting sensitive data to it versus other things where you can simply scrape index pages? I fail to see how the warning is meaningful. One should assume anything you post to the public internet may be public forever. The existence of an API changes nothing as far as the amount of care you should take.