Wrong creation date being fetched for github repo using repos.get(owner, repo): Get a repository

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#108 opened on Dec 17, 2021 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: github, python
Domain: api, backend

Research direction

Start with the repos.get call shown in the issue and compare its created_at value with GitHub's repository metadata documentation and the endpoint response. Determine whether ghapi is transforming the field or exposing GitHub's value as-is; done means the distinction between repository creation and initial commit dates is verified and the issue is answered or documented.

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Description

Hi All,

I wanted to get the date on which a github repository is created. However the date which I am getting is not corrrect, for example the repo https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/, the intial commit date is 31 Jul 2009, however it is shown as 2010-08-24 by the api.

Following is the code that I have used.

from ghapi.all import GhApi
from configparser import ConfigParser

config_parser = ConfigParser()
config_parser.read("config.ini")
access_token = config_parser["public"].get("access_token")

gh = GhApi(owner="pandas-dev", repo="pandas", token=access_token)

y = gh.repos.get(owner="pandas-dev", repo="pandas")

print(f"Creation date = {y['created_at']}")

The output is:

Creation date = 2010-08-24T01:37:33Z

This creation date is not correct, please let me know how to fetch the correct creation date of the Github repo or date of the intial commit.

Thanks

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