techgaun/active-forks

Fetch more than 30 forks

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#13 opened on Oct 10, 2018

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Description

Forks from GitHub are paged 30 at a time. It would be nice to fetch them all for large projects (many forks).

Contributor guide

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
apitooling
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
clear
Prerequisites
GitHub APIpaginationasync JavaScript
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
75
Research direction
The issue requires modifying the code that fetches forks from the GitHub API to handle pagination. Look at the existing API call in the source code (likely in a file like lib/forks.js or index.js). The GitHub API returns a Link header for pagination; implement a loop to fetch all pages until no next page is available. Consider using a library like node fetch or axios if not already used. Test with a repo that has many forks.