RepoRoulette: Randomly Sample GitHub Repositories

2025-05-20
RepoRoulette: Randomly Sample GitHub Repositories

RepoRoulette is a powerful tool for randomly sampling GitHub repositories, offering three distinct methods: ID sampling, temporal sampling, and BigQuery sampling. ID sampling directly selects random IDs from GitHub's ID space, offering speed but with low hit rates. Temporal sampling chooses repositories updated within a specified time range, allowing filtering by stars, languages, etc. BigQuery sampling leverages Google BigQuery's public GitHub dataset, providing powerful capabilities but requiring a GCP account and billing. RepoRoulette is suitable for academic research, learning resources, data science, trend analysis, and security research.

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