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Reputation: 758

How to get the language tags of a repository in GitHub?

How do i get the github repository language tags. Is there any api to get those tags. i refereed there developer docs but no solution can anybody help on this.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1596

Answers (1)

1615903
1615903

Reputation: 34733

It's a bit hidden in the examples, but:

https://api.github.com/repos/<username>/<reponame>/languages

Gives a list of languages used, like this:

{
    "Java": 123721,
    "CSS": 1334
}

You get the URL from a repository get as explained here: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get - it is the "languages_url", but unfortunately it returns an empty object for the hello world example that is used in the documentation. If you try it for an actual repository, it works.

Upvotes: 8

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