diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/data_analysis/contributor_breadth_worker/contributor_breadth_worker.py b/collectoss/tasks/data_analysis/contributor_breadth_worker/contributor_breadth_worker.py
index 108326b50..11cedff32 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/data_analysis/contributor_breadth_worker/contributor_breadth_worker.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/data_analysis/contributor_breadth_worker/contributor_breadth_worker.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def contributor_breadth_model(self) -> None:
         logger.info(f"Processing cntrb {index} of {total}")
         index += 1
 
-        repo_cntrb_url = f"https://api.github.com/users/{cntrb['gh_login']}/events"
+        repo_cntrb_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"users/{cntrb['gh_login']}/events")
 
         newest_event_in_db = datetime(1970, 1, 1)
         if cntrb["gh_login"] in cntrb_newest_events_map:
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/contributors.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/contributors.py
index f3eaaa802..fc113386d 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/contributors.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/contributors.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from collectoss.tasks.init.celery_app import celery_app as celery
 from collectoss.tasks.init.celery_app import CoreRepoCollectionTask
 from collectoss.tasks.github.util.github_paginator import hit_api
+from collectoss.tasks.github.util.github_data_access import GithubDataAccess
 from collectoss.tasks.github.facade_github.tasks import *
 from collectoss.application.db.models import Contributor
 from collectoss.application.db.util import execute_session_query
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ def process_contributors():
 
     key_auth = GithubRandomKeyAuth(logger)
 
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
+
     with get_session() as session:
 
         query = (
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ def process_contributors():
 
         del contributor_dict["_sa_instance_state"]
 
-        url = f"https://api.github.com/users/{contributor_dict['cntrb_login']}" 
+        url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"users/{contributor_dict['cntrb_login']}")
 
         try:
             data = retrieve_dict_data(url, key_auth, logger)
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/detect_move/core.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/detect_move/core.py
index 1c0d7dba8..fe2d8ab14 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/detect_move/core.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/detect_move/core.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from collectoss.tasks.github.util.github_task_session import *
 from collectoss.application.db.models import Repo, CollectionStatus
 from collectoss.tasks.github.util.github_paginator import hit_api
+from collectoss.tasks.github.util.github_data_access import GithubDataAccess
 from collectoss.tasks.github.util.util import get_owner_repo
 from collectoss.tasks.github.util.util import parse_json_response
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -76,7 +77,10 @@ def extract_owner_and_repo_from_endpoint(key_auth, url, logger):
 def ping_github_for_repo_move(session, key_auth, repo, logger,collection_hook='core'):
 
     owner, name = get_owner_repo(repo.repo_git)
-    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{name}"
+
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
+
+    url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{name}")
 
     attempts = 0
     while attempts < 10:
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/events.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/events.py
index 24b1e42ff..21dc06959 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/events.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/events.py
@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@ def collect_events(repo_git: str, full_collection: bool):
 
 def bulk_events_collection_endpoint_contains_all_data(key_auth, logger, owner, repo):
 
-    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events?per_page=100"
-
     github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
 
+    url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events", {"per_page": "100"})
+
+
     page_count = github_data_access.get_resource_page_count(url)
 
     if page_count > 300:
@@ -133,11 +134,11 @@ def collect(self, repo_git, key_auth, since):
     def _collect_events(self, repo_git: str, key_auth, since):
 
         owner, repo = get_owner_repo(repo_git)
-
-        url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events"
             
         github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, self._logger)
 
+        url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events")
+
         for event in github_data_access.paginate_resource(url):
 
             yield event
@@ -314,7 +315,7 @@ def _collect_and_process_issue_events(self, owner, repo, repo_id, key_auth, sinc
 
             issue_number = issue["issue_number"]
 
-            event_url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/events"
+            event_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/events")
             
             try:
 
@@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ def _collect_and_process_pr_events(self, owner, repo, repo_id, key_auth, since):
 
             pr_number = pr["gh_pr_number"]
 
-            event_url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{pr_number}/events"
+            event_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{pr_number}/events")
 
             try:
             
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/core.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/core.py
index 64b42e0d2..98dfcc07d 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/core.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/core.py
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ def query_github_contributors(logger, key_auth, github_url, tool_source:str, too
         logger.error(f"Encountered bad url: {github_url}")
         raise e
 
-    # Set the base of the url and place to hold contributors to insert
-    contributors_url = (
-        f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{name}/" +
-        "contributors?state=all"
-    )
-
     # Get contributors that we already have stored
     #   Set our duplicate and update column map keys (something other than PK) to
     #   check dupicates/needed column updates with
@@ -42,6 +36,9 @@ def query_github_contributors(logger, key_auth, github_url, tool_source:str, too
 
     github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
 
+    # Set the base of the url and place to hold contributors to insert
+    contributors_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/contributors", {"state": "all"})
+
     contributor_count = github_data_access.get_resource_count(contributors_url)
 
     logger.info("Count of contributors needing insertion: " + str(contributor_count) + "\n")
@@ -54,7 +51,7 @@ def query_github_contributors(logger, key_auth, github_url, tool_source:str, too
             # Need to hit this single contributor endpoint to get extra data including...
             #   `created at`
             #   i think that's it
-            cntrb_url = ("https://api.github.com/users/" + repo_contributor['login'])
+            cntrb_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"users/{repo_contributor['login']}")
 
             
             logger.info("Hitting endpoint: " + cntrb_url + " ...\n")
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/tasks.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/tasks.py
index ab7a18eab..8bef19b8b 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/tasks.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/facade_github/tasks.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def process_commit_metadata(logger, auth, contributorQueue, repo_id, platform_id
             # move on to the next contributor
             continue
 
-        url = ("https://api.github.com/users/" + login)
+        url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"users/{login}")
 
         try:
             user_data = github_data_access.get_resource(url)
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/issues.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/issues.py
index 406718759..f25287be6 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/issues.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/issues.py
@@ -103,13 +103,13 @@ def retrieve_all_issue_data(repo_git: str, logger: logging.Logger, key_auth: Git
 
     logger.info(f"Collecting issues for {owner}/{repo}")
 
-    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues?state=all"
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
+
+    url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/", {"state":"all"})
 
     if since:
         url += f"&since={since.isoformat()}"
-
-    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
-
+    
     num_pages = github_data_access.get_resource_page_count(url)
     logger.info(f"{owner}/{repo}: Retrieving {num_pages} pages of issues")
 
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/messages.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/messages.py
index 342eeb2ca..7f8fc0424 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/messages.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/messages.py
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ def fast_retrieve_all_pr_and_issue_messages(repo_git: str, logger, key_auth, tas
 
     owner, repo = get_owner_repo(repo_git)
 
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
+
     # url to get issue and pull request comments
-    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments"
+    url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments")
 
     if since:
         url += f"?since={since.isoformat()}"
@@ -73,8 +75,6 @@ def fast_retrieve_all_pr_and_issue_messages(repo_git: str, logger, key_auth, tas
     # define logger for task
     logger.info(f"Collecting github comments for {owner}/{repo}")
     
-    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
-
     message_count = github_data_access.get_resource_count(url)
 
     logger.info(f"{task_name}: Collecting {message_count} github messages")
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/pull_requests/tasks.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/pull_requests/tasks.py
index 3efaddf3b..55aa96ad2 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/pull_requests/tasks.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/pull_requests/tasks.py
@@ -227,11 +227,19 @@ def collect_pull_request_review_comments(repo_git: str, full_collection: bool) -
     """
     owner, repo = get_owner_repo(repo_git)
 
-    review_msg_url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/comments"
 
     logger = logging.getLogger(collect_pull_request_review_comments.__name__)
     logger.debug(f"Collecting pull request review comments for {owner}/{repo}")
 
+    tool_source = "Pr review comment task"
+    tool_version = "2.0"
+    data_source = "Github API"
+
+    key_auth = GithubRandomKeyAuth(logger)
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
+
+    review_msg_search_args = {}
+
     repo_id = get_repo_by_repo_git(repo_git).repo_id
 
     if not full_collection:
@@ -240,7 +248,7 @@ def collect_pull_request_review_comments(repo_git: str, full_collection: bool) -
         if last_collected_date:
             # Subtract 2 days to ensure all data is collected
             core_data_last_collected = (last_collected_date - timedelta(days=2)).replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
-            review_msg_url += f"?since={core_data_last_collected.isoformat()}"
+            review_msg_search_args['since'] = core_data_last_collected.isoformat()
         else:
             logger.warning(f"core_data_last_collected is NULL for recollection on repo: {repo_git}")
 
@@ -253,13 +261,6 @@ def collect_pull_request_review_comments(repo_git: str, full_collection: bool) -
         logger.debug(f"{owner}/{repo} No PR reviews to collect review comments for")
         return
 
-    tool_source = "Pr review comment task"
-    tool_version = "2.0"
-    data_source = "Github API"
-
-    key_auth = GithubRandomKeyAuth(logger)
-    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
-
     pr_review_comment_batch_size = get_batch_size()
 
     # Batch processing: accumulate comments until batch size reached, then flush
@@ -268,6 +269,8 @@ def collect_pull_request_review_comments(repo_git: str, full_collection: bool) -
     pr_review_msg_mapping_data = {}
     total_refs_inserted = 0
 
+    review_msg_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/comments", review_msg_search_args)
+
     # Single-pass extraction: get both contributor and comment data together
     for comment in github_data_access.paginate_resource(review_msg_url):
         # Extract contributor
@@ -512,7 +515,7 @@ def collect_pull_request_reviews(repo_git: str, full_collection: bool) -> None:
             if index % 100 == 0:
                 logger.debug(f"{owner}/{repo} Processing PR {index + 1} of {pr_count}")
 
-            pr_review_url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pr_number}/reviews"
+            pr_review_url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pr_number}/reviews")
 
             try:
                 pr_reviews = list(github_data_access.paginate_resource(pr_review_url))
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/repo_info/core.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/repo_info/core.py
index 55b1def2a..2c0a4fb79 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/repo_info/core.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/repo_info/core.py
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@ def query_committers_count(key_auth, logger, owner, repo):
 
     data = {}
     logger.info('Querying committers count\n')
-    url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contributors?per_page=100'
+
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
+
+    url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contributors", {"per_page": 100})
     ## If the repository is empty there are zero committers, and the API returns nothing at all. Response 
     ## header of 200 along with an empty JSON. 
     try: 
-        github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(key_auth, logger)
         try: 
             data = github_data_access.get_resource_count(url) 
         except Exception as e: 
@@ -57,9 +59,10 @@ def get_repo_data(logger, url, response):
 """ 
 def get_repo_data(logger, owner, repo):
 
+    github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(None, logger)
+
     try:
-        url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}'
-        github_data_access = GithubDataAccess(None, logger)
+        url = github_data_access.endpoint_url(f"/repos/{owner}/{repo}")
         result = github_data_access.get_resource(url)
         return result
     except UrlNotFoundException as e:
diff --git a/collectoss/tasks/github/util/github_data_access.py b/collectoss/tasks/github/util/github_data_access.py
index 0fc017124..17dfd1339 100644
--- a/collectoss/tasks/github/util/github_data_access.py
+++ b/collectoss/tasks/github/util/github_data_access.py
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ def __init__(self, message="Resource returned HTTP 410 Gone. It is likely intent
         super().__init__(message)
 
 class GithubDataAccess:
+    """Utilities for accessing the GitHub REST API
+    
+    Public facing functions in this class should refrain from returning data in a structure
+    that is derived from githubs API responses to keep all platform-specific parsing here.
+    """
+
+    def _base_url(self):
+        return "https://api.github.com"
 
     def __init__(self, key_manager, logger: logging.Logger, feature="rest"):
     
@@ -61,7 +69,7 @@ def endpoint_url(self, path: str, params: dict = None) -> str:
         if not path.startswith("/"):
             path = "/" + path
 
-        url = "https://api.github.com" + path
+        url = self._base_url() + path
 
         return self.__add_query_params(url, params or {})