Finding most recent forks of gists and github repositories

A while ago I found out that gist.github.com/lynatan/673e574faa8343fa01d7a91e75065c54 which I mentioned before in Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation and I wanted to

1. find it back
2. find the most recent forks of it

The reason was that I was working on the [WaybackSave/Archive] bit Time Professionals on X: “Live now: “Hidden Gems of Delphi Language: Operator Overloading and Class/Record helpers” @jpluimers” session which I presented at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Home where I also could enjoy the company of the other [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Speakers and the famous [Wayback/Archive] IT DevCon 2024 speaker dinner (which attendees can also join for a slight surcharge).

The presentation is at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024/delphi_language_hidden_gems/delphi_language_hidden_gems.md at main · jpluimers/ITDevCon2024 · GitHub and pictures of the event at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024 – Google Photos.

Back to the problem at hand

I was hoping a round trip from old github username to github ID to new github username would help, so I did some searching and found [Wayback/Archive] Where can I find the GitHub ID in my account? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] harnex, [Wayback/Archive] informatik01, [Wayback/Archive] Raghu Ariga, [Wayback/Archive] Bohemian, [Wayback/Archive] Blessing and [Wayback/Archive] Ogglas) came up with these:

• [Wayback/Archive] Find your GitHub user id
• [Wayback/Archive] api.github.com/users/github where github is the username; user github has "id": 9919This does not need an API key or authentication, so this works well:
  

  curl -s https://api.github.com/users/<your-user-name> | jq '.id'

• For your own account you can of course do this:
  

  It can be easily retrieved using Github API. If you cannot use the API answer or from http://caius.github.io/github_id/ you can go to github --> settings --> emails , under the Primary email address you will find {id}+{user_name}@users.noreply.github.com. The format is simillar to this: 50826640+hirwablessing@users.noreply.github.com, that 50826640 is the id.

   

• The other way around is also simple:
  

  If you do have the GitHub Id but need to find the username / login you can do it like this with the List users endpoint:

  Subtract the id by 1 and run the following query. My GitHub Id is 4015237 and therefore the query parameter since receives the value 4015236.

  https://api.github.com/users?since=4015236&per_page=1

  https://docs.github.com/en/rest/users/users?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-users

  Description for since:

  Query parameters – since – A user ID. Only return users with an ID greater than this ID.

  • [Wayback/Archive] api.github.com/users?since=4015236&per_page=1
  • [Wayback/Archive] REST API endpoints for users – GitHub Docs

  So for github this becomes [Wayback/Archive] api.github.com/users?since=9918&per_page=1 returning

  [
    {
      "login": "github",
      "id": 9919,
  …

Well, it didn’t work out, as [Wayback/Archive] api.github.com/users/lynatan returned

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest",
  "status": "404"
}

What now?

And back to the gist I was looking for:

--jeroen