View estimated size of GitHub repository before cloning

Question

I want to view the total repo size of a project hosted on GitHub without having to clone it. Sometimes I do this:

1. Start cloning some GitHub repository

   Receiving objects: 45% (218/476), 5.50 MiB | 27 KiB/s

   Already drained 5MB? Suspend...

   ^Z
   

2. Clone the repository on a server with a normal internet connection just to see its size.

3. Continue (or abort) the local cloning.

How do I find out the repository size in advance? In the search I see repository size, but not in other places.

Answer 1

Using Github API:

$ echo https://github.com/hlamer/enki.git | perl -ne 'print $1 if m!([^/]+/[^/]+?)(?:\.git)?$!' | xargs -i curl -s -k https://api.github.com/repos/'{}' | grep size
"size": 284,

Answer 2

In Firefox you can use the GitHub Repository Size add-on.

Answer 3

One can achieve this using one's browser console and running

fetch('https://api.github.com/repos/[USERNAME]/[REPO]')
  .then(v => v.json()).then((function(v){
   console.log(v['size'] + "KB")
  })
)

Let's consider a practical example.

Assuming one wants to find the size of this repo using Firefox.

Open the console with Ctrl+Shift+K.

Then paste the following code

fetch('https://api.github.com/repos/goncaloperes/TimeSeries')
  .then(v => v.json()).then((function(v){
   console.log(v['size'] + "KB")
  })
)

Press enter and one will receive the size of the repo as one can see in the image bellow.

Answer 4

Use Google Chrome browser and install this extension

Adds the repo size to the home page:

Answer 5

curl \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-s https://api.github.com/repos/torvalds/linux | \
jq '.size' | \
numfmt --to=iec --from-unit=1024

Explanation:

1. fetch repo info from github api using curl

We get a json response like this:

{
  "id": 2325298,
  "node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkyMzI1Mjk4",
  "name": "linux",
  "full_name": "torvalds/linux",
  "private": false,
     ...
  "size": 3018913,  <<<This is what we need
  "stargazers_count": 99224,
  "watchers_count": 99224,
     ...
}

2. Pipe the json response to jq parser and find the required attribute-value pair.

   . indicates the root of the json body and size is the required attribute from the root body

Output (the size in kB):

3018913

3. Then pipe the output to numfmt

$ man numfmt

--to=[UNIT]
     iec    1K = 1024, 1M = 1048576, ...

--from-unit=N
     specify the input unit size (instead of the default 1)
     (it basically tells that the input is in kB(1024B) insted of B

Output:

2.9G

For private repos pass a token as a header

-H "Authorization: token GITHUB_TOKEN"

replace GITHUB_TOKEN with a github token that has access to private repos

https://command-not-found.com/jq

https://command-not-found.com/numfmt

Answer 6

For Mac users

The following one-liner should do the trick:

echo https://github.com/andreikop/enki.git | perl -ne 'print $1 if m!([^/]+/[^/]+?)(?:\.git)?$!' | xargs -I{} curl -s -k https://api.github.com/repos/'{}' | grep size
# "size": 17039