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<h1>Welcome to the GitHub Developer site</h1>

<p>Resources on using the official GitHub API. This site contains documentation on the major API sections and libraries you can use to make use of GitHub with your programs and scripts.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/general.html">General API Info</a></div>

<p>How to authenticate as a user, URL schema, secure and unsecured access and access limitations.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/users.html">User API</a></div>

<p>Searching users, getting user information and managing authenticated user account information.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/issues.html">Issues API</a></div>

<p>Listing issues, searching, editing and closing your projects issues.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/gist.html">Gist API</a></div>

<p>Listing your Gists, finding, editing and deleting specific Gists and creating new Gists.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/network.html">Network API</a></div>

<p>Listing all the data needed to draw the network graph, heads of every fork with new changes and all relevant commits. </p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/repo.html">Repository API</a></div>

<p>Searching repositories, getting repository information and managing repository information for authenticated users.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/commits.html">Commit API</a></div>

<p>Getting information on specific commits, the diffs they introduce, the files they've changed.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/object.html">Object API</a></div>

<p>Getting full versions of specific files and trees in your Git repositories.</p>

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<div class="title"><a href="p/libraries.html">GitHub Libraries</a></div>

<p>Libraries in various languages that make use of the GitHub API (ruby, python, perl, php).</p>

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