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A Tool to Extract Structured Data from GitHub

@article{Surana2020ATT,
  title={A Tool to Extract Structured Data from GitHub},
  author={Shreyans R. Surana and Smit Detroja and Saurabh Tiwari},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2012.03453}
}
GitHub repositories consist of various detailed information about the project contributors, the number of commits and its contributors, releases, pull requests, programming languages, and issues. However, no systematic dataset of open source projects exists which features detailed information about the repositories on GitHub for knowledge acquisition and mining. In this paper, we developed tool support, named GitRepository, which helps in creating a data-set of repositories based on the… 
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