Getting started to GitHub GraphQL API
The GitHub GraphQL API (aka GitHub API v4) is a significant improvement on its API and enables researchers to interact with GitHub more efficiently. Although similar results can be achieved with the old API, depending on the required data, researchers need to make the first query and then make subqueries to fetch corresponding data, leading to problems with the API rate limits. The great advantage of using the new API is that GraphQL enables one to specify the returning data, sparing the need for subqueries to fetch corresponding data. ...