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Created December 16, 2016 22:34
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Check the size of a github repo before downloading
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# http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/39587/view-estimated-size-of-github-repository-before-cloning
# tested on macOS
echo https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git | perl -ne 'print $1 if m!([^/]+/[^/]+?)(?:\.git)?$!' | xargs -I{} curl -s -k https://api.github.com/repos/'{}' | grep size
# output:
# "size": 1746294,
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rahil627 commented Dec 14, 2025

ah ha! i found it while migrating my repos, while searching for a recently deleted repo..

https://github.com/settings/repositories

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