blog/content/post/check-size-of-a-github-repo.md

---
title: "Check Size of a Github Repo"
date: 2021-02-18T14:39:57Z
lastmod: 2022-04-28T14:39:57Z
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keywords: [size github repo repository]
description: ""
tags: [github]
categories: [linux]
author: ""

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Just a shell script.

Requirements: curl, jq, GNU Coreutils

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```bash
#!/bin/sh
 
sizeof()
{
    curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$1 | jq '.size' | numfmt --to=iec --from-unit=1024
}
 
size=$(sizeof $1)
echo $size
```

## Usage
Pass username/repo as argument to the script.