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[Suggestion] Repos endpoint improvement

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, openapi
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reviewing the OpenAPI description for the /users/user/repos endpoint and compare it with the languages_url endpoint mentioned in the issue. Determine the intended shape and naming of the additional language data, with the work complete when the proposal has an agreed API contract and corresponding description updates.

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Description

feature fundamentals-and-support P4 shield waiting for review

Hello, I was not sure where to write this issue, so I decided to dump my thought here and hope that somebody would pass it on to the right people. (sorry about that)

I noticed that the /users/user/repos endpoint returns a language property, but I'd like to see another key implemented such as languages or language_details that contains data from the languages_url endpoint. This would be cool to see as currently if a dev wishes to get all the languages of their repos, they would quickly exceed their API rate limit quote (50 public repos, let's say, all of which's languages you want to fetch).

Thanks for reading and I hope that somebody kind enough passes this on to a Github dev/engineer and I would like to hear feedback on my suggestion.

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