How to find forks of a deleted repository?

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How to find forks of a deleted repository?

1. Go to https://cachedview.com/

2. Navigate to the deleted repo, e.g. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://github.com/apcera/termtables

3. Copy latest known commit sha1 signature

4. Go to https://github.com/search

5. Type REPONAME fork:only language:X

6. Ensure at least one sha1 signature in the fork commit list matches the one known to be in the original repo

7. If it matches, use the fork

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For what is worth, google cache is no more. My recommendation is you:

• use archive.is, like https://archive.is/https://github.com/apcera/termtables.
• It's probably not in it, but there you can easily click the links to check it on archive.org and smaller archive sites.
• On archive.org you can find https://web.archive.org/web/20180611000527/https://github.com/apcera/termtables.
• Mouse over the commit hash and copy the link. You get https://web.archive.org/web/20180611000527/https://github.com/apcera/termtables/commit/bcbc5dc54055d14996b256d348fb75cc6debe282, which contains the full hash.

Oh right, the new GitHub search also lets you search commit by hash it seems. https://github.com/search?q=bcbc5dc54055d14996b256d348fb75cc6debe282&type=commits goes directly to three forks.

an easier alternative: https://softwareheritage.org/