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On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 23:53:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:24:17PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 8/22/2018 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> > I don't argue against the usefulness of the features that 
>> > github provides, but I'm also wary of the fact that it's 
>> > basically a walled garden -- there's no simple way I know of 
>> > to extract data like pull requests, comments, 
>> > cross-references, etc..  I mean, it's *possible* to write a 
>> > web crawler that does just that, but such functionality is 
>> > second-class, and one might argue, that it is possible at 
>> > all is merely a happy accident, since github's very design 
>> > seems to be geared at drawing people to centralize 
>> > everything on github.  It's not quite at the point of vendor 
>> > lock-in, but it's certainly uncomfortably close, in my view.
>> 
>> As for github comments, they get echoed to me as emails. So I 
>> have an email archive of them.
>
> That's good to know.
>
> Still, an export function that will give you your data in some 
> computer-parseable format would have been nice.
>
>
> T

They have an API for taht, and it looks like people have made 
programs to create backups of it with the api.

https://developer.github.com/v3/
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/github-backup