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> Why? Strongly suggest updating the README to explain why this is useful, or what kind of workflow makes this useful. Just a list of features isn't that compelling to me because I'm not sure I want it.

I don't mean to speak for the author, but: The 10 seconds it took for the GitHub web UI to load the homepage of this project is a great justification for its existence!

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I hear that, but this is fetching data from the Github graphql API the same way that the website does, so if you're getting slow responses from their servers this won't be any faster.

There is a lot of other stuff that gets loaded and parsed when you visit the site. I see 151 requests and get a DOMContentLoaded of 27.51 seconds. The slow requests aren't between me and the GQL API as far as I can tell.

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