Github API - commits by author

Question

I am wondering if it is at all possible to use GitHub\'s API¹ to retrieve a list of commits by a given author (for a specific repository, branch). One can grab recen

Answer 1

Update August 2012

Filtering the commits by author has been added to the v3 API. The author parameter is available for the List commits on a repository action (GET /repos/:user/:repo/commits).

After almost three years, thank you Wynn from Github!

Answer 2

Using the API I don't think there's another way besides getting the commit list and searching for a user.

But with a cloned repository git log has a parameter that does this:

--author=<pattern>, --committer=<pattern>  Limit the commits output to ones 
with author/committer header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).