gh-got

gh-got

Convenience wrapper for Got to interact with the GitHub API

Unless you're already using Got, you should probably use GitHub's own @octokit/rest.js or @octokit/graphql.js packages instead.

Install

npm install gh-got

Usage

Instead of:

import got from 'got';

const token = 'foo';

const {body} = await got('https://api.github.com/users/sindresorhus', {
	json: true,
	headers: {
		'accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
		'authorization': `token ${token}`
	}
});

console.log(body.login);
//=> 'sindresorhus'

You can do:

import ghGot from 'gh-got';

const {body} = await ghGot('users/sindresorhus', {
	context: {
		token: 'foo'
	}
});

console.log(body.login);
//=> 'sindresorhus'

Or:

import ghGot from 'gh-got';

const {body} = await ghGot('https://api.github.com/users/sindresorhus', {
	context: {
		token: 'foo'
	}
});

console.log(body.login);
//=> 'sindresorhus'

API

Same API as got, including options, the stream API, aliases, pagination, etc, but with some additional options below.

Errors are improved by using the custom GitHub error messages. Doesn't apply to the stream API.

gh-got specific options

token

Type: string

GitHub access token.

Can be set globally with the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.

prefixUrl

Type: string
Default: https://api.github.com/

To support GitHub Enterprise.

Can be set globally with the GITHUB_ENDPOINT environment variable.

body

Type: object

Can be specified as a plain object and will be serialized as JSON with the appropriate headers set.

Rate limit

Responses and errors have a .rateLimit property with info about the current rate limit. (This is not yet implemented for the stream API)

import ghGot from 'gh-got';

const {rateLimit} = await ghGot('users/sindresorhus');

console.log(rateLimit);
//=> {limit: 5000, remaining: 4899, reset: [Date 2018-12-31T20:45:20.000Z]}

Authorization

Authorization for GitHub uses the following logic:

• If options.headers.authorization is passed to gh-got, then this will be used as first preference.
• If options.token is provided, then the authorization header will be set to token <options.token>.
• If options.headers.authorization and options.token are not provided, then the authorization header will be set to token <process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN>

In most cases, this means you can simply set GITHUB_TOKEN, but it also allows it to be overridden by setting options.token or options.headers.authorization explicitly. For example, if authenticating as a GitHub App, you could do the following:

import ghGot from 'gh-got';

const options = {
	headers: {
		authorization: `Bearer ${jwt}`
	}
};
const {body} = await ghGot('app', options);

console.log(body.name);
//=> 'MyApp'

Pagination

See the Got docs.

Similar packages

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node-fetch

Node-fetch is a lightweight module that brings window.fetch to Node.js. While it is not specifically designed for GitHub API interactions, it can be used to make HTTP requests to any API, including GitHub's. Compared to gh-got, node-fetch requires more manual setup for authentication and handling GitHub-specific features.

axios

Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. It is widely used for making HTTP requests and can be configured to interact with the GitHub API. Compared to gh-got, axios provides a more general-purpose HTTP client with a larger community and more extensive documentation.