github.com: official API and open-data routes

Symptom: Rate limits and heavy pages when scraping HTML

What agents usually want: repository metadata, file contents, issues

GitHub REST API

• Documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api
• Authentication: Works without a token at a low hourly limit; a token raises it
• Last check: ok, 2026-10-27

raw.githubusercontent.com (file contents)

• Authentication: No key
• Last check: ok, 2026-10-27

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