get the contributors from any given github URL
- cd get-contributors
- bash get-contributors.sh https://github.com/#owner#/#repository#
- ../api-forks-#repository#/ is the incremental state
- ../forks-#repository# is the final query
- you will not get all of them, but the ones that are displayed in the github website will
This will create a folder just outside the repo, named api-forks-#repository#
All the files there are a 'state', incrementally used to parse the final query, this state design was chosen due to github-api download limit
If you see a "API limit reached" message just re-run the script some time later, nothing already downloaded will be re-downloaded
- jp was not used because I needed to use $ cut for some things regardless
- no database was used because this is meant to be an easy thing
btw you can increase the github-API download limit this way: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#rate-limiting