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Interact with the GitHub releases API.
list(auth, org, repo[, options], cb)List all releases for a repo. Calls back with an array of releases.
const gh = require('ghreleases')
const auth = {
token: '90230948aef88723eca2309880fea09789234',
user: 'ralphtheninja'
}
gh.list(auth, 'level', 'leveldown', (err, list) => {
console.log(list)
})
GitHub docs.
getLatest(auth, org, repo[, options], cb)Get latest release.
gh.getLatest(auth, 'level', 'leveldown', (err, release) => {
console.log(release)
})
GitHub docs.
getById(auth, org, repo, id[, options], cb)Get data for a single release.
gh.getById(auth, 'level', 'leveldown', '1363866', (err, release) => {
console.log(release)
})
GitHub docs.
getByTag(auth, org, repo, tag[, options], cb)Get release by tag.
gh.getByTag(auth, 'level', 'leveldown', 'v1.2.2', (err, release) => {
console.log(release)
})
GitHub docs.
create(auth, org, repo, data[, options], cb)Create a release.
const data = {
tag_name: '1.2.3-test',
name: 'Release name for 1.2.3-test',
body: 'Body text of release goes here'
}
gh.create(auth, 'level', 'leveldown', data, (err, release) => {
console.log(release)
})
The release on GitHub would then look as follows:

GitHub docs
uploadAssets(auth, org, repo, release, files[, options], cb)Upload assets to a release. Calls back with an array of results for each upload request.
release parameter accepts either a release id, 'latest' or a valid ref, e.g. 'tags/v1.0.0'files parameter is an array of absolute file paths that should be uploaded and associated with this releaseconst ref = 'tags/v1.3.0'
const files = [
'/path/to/README.md',
'/path/to/prebuilt/binary.tar.gz'
]
gh.uploadAssets(auth, 'level', 'leveldown', ref, files, (err, res) => {
console.log(res)
})
GitHub docs
For interacting with other parts of the GitHub API, check out the modules below.
MIT
FAQs
Interact with the GitHub releases API
The npm package ghreleases receives a total of 23,682 weekly downloads. As such, ghreleases popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ghreleases demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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