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Dataset field reference: every field in the Top100 JSONL files

The Top100 dataset is 30 newline-delimited JSON files — 3,000 GitHub repository records in total — where every line is the complete, untouched repository object returned by GitHub's Search API.

Each JSONL file holds 100 records — one per repository — and each record is the complete, untouched JSON object returned by GitHub's Search API. The files are UTF-8 encoded newline-delimited JSON: one object per line, no wrapping array, no trailing commas, no reshaping. That makes them streamable with jq, loadable by pandas.read_json(lines=True), and queryable in place by DuckDB and BigQuery.

Files

Every field, documented

Fields that are not in these files

The single-repository endpoint returns a few extra fields the Search API omits: subscribers_count, network_count, the parent and source objects for forks, code_of_conduct, security_and_analysis and temp_clone_token. Set ENRICH_WITH_REPO_DETAILS = True in scripts/fetch_top_repos.py if you need them — at the cost of roughly 100 extra API requests per language.

Load it

Download and query

# one language
curl -sSL -o python.jsonl \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/havaianasdestruido/top100/main/data/JSONL/python.jsonl

# the current leaders, straight from the file
jq -r '.full_name + "  " + (.stargazers_count|tostring)' python.jsonl | head

# SQL over the raw file, no import step
duckdb -c "SELECT full_name, stargazers_count, license.spdx_id
          FROM read_json_auto('python.jsonl')
          ORDER BY stargazers_count DESC LIMIT 10;"

# Python
import json
repos = [json.loads(line) for line in open("python.jsonl", encoding="utf-8")]
print(repos[0]["full_name"], repos[0]["stargazers_count"])

Because the files are static, they are friendly to caches, mirrors and Hugging Face dataset mirrors: there is nothing to authenticate and no rate limit to respect.

Example record

The first line of data/JSONL/python.jsonl, pretty-printed:

{
  "id": 54346799,
  "node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnk1NDM0Njc5OQ==",
  "name": "public-apis",
  "full_name": "public-apis/public-apis",
  "private": false,
  "owner": {
    "login": "public-apis",
    "id": 51121562,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjUxMTIxNTYy",
    "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/51121562?v=4",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/public-apis",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/public-apis/received_events",
    "type": "Organization",
    "user_view_type": "public",
    "site_admin": false
  },
  "html_url": "https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis",
  "description": "A collective list of free APIs",
  "fork": false,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis",
  "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/forks",
  "keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/keys{/key_id}",
  "collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/collaborators{/collaborator}",
  "teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/teams",
  "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/hooks",
  "issue_events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/issues/events{/number}",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/events",
  "assignees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/assignees{/user}",
  "branches_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/public-apis/public-apis/branches{/branch}",
  … (truncated for display)

Licensing and attribution

The repository metadata is GitHub's, served through GitHub's public API, and each listed project keeps its own licence — check the license field before reusing anyone's code. The collection script, the generated tables and this website are published under the MIT licence in the repository. If you republish the data, link back here and credit GitHub as the source.