Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login GitHub Report Card ( githubreportcard.com ) 27 points by adamlieb 37 minutes ago | hide | past | web | 16 comments | favorite Ntagg 21 minutes ago I'm a Technical Product Manager at GitHub. I just took a look at this (pretty cool, maybe we should have deeper user metrics...). I saw a couple of comments about the 'write access' so I just figured I'd chime in and point out that it's a required scope to get all of the private contrib info out of the API. I definitely encourage people to be mindful of what access they grant, but for what it's worth I did it :) reply minimaxir 16 minutes ago GitHub data is public (for public repositories) and archived, so you don't even need to use auth. Example superquick BigQuery for tabulating all 2016 Push Events to GitHub by a given user for e...