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A node.js module, which provides an object oriented wrapper for the GitHub API. This library is a direct port of php-github-api by Thibault Duplessis to JavaScript. The only major difference is that the JavaScript code is fully asynchronous.
Install with the node package manager npm:
$ npm install github
or
Install via git clone:
$ git clone git://github.com/ajaxorg/node-github.git && cd node-github && git submodule update --init
Print all followers of the user "fjakobs" to the console.
var sys = require("sys");
var GitHubApi = require("github").GitHubApi;
var github = new GitHubApi(true);
github.getUserApi().getFollowers('fjakobs', function(err, followers) {
console.log(followers.join('\n'));
});
First the GitHubApi class is imported from the github module. This class provides access to all of GitHub's APIs (e.g. user, commit or repository APIs). The getFollowers method lists all followers of a given GitHub user. Is is part of the user API. It takes the user name as first argument and a callback as last argument. Once the follower list is returned from the server, the callback is called.
Like in node.js callbacks are always the last argument. If the functions fails an error object is passed as first argument to the callback.
Most GitHub API calls don't require authentification. As a rule of thumb: If you can see the information by visiting the site without being logged in, you don't have to be authenticated to retrieve the same information through the API. Of course calls, which change data or read sensitive information have to be authenticated.
You need the GitHub user name and the API key for authentification. The API key can be found in the user's Account Settings page.
This example shows how to authenticate and then change location field of the account settings to Argentinia:
github.authenticate(username, token);
github.getUserApi().update(username, {location: "Argentinia"}, function(err) {
console.log("done!");
});
Note that the authenticate method is synchronous because it only stores the credentials for the next request.
The unit tests are based on the node-async-test module, which is provided as a git submodule. This has to be initialized once using:
git submodule update --init
Running all unit tests:
node test/AllTests.js
The test classes can also be run separately. This will e.g. run the UserApi test:
node test/UserApiTest.js
Note that a connection to the internet is required to run the tests.
MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.
Thanks to Thibault Duplessis for the excellent php-github-api library, which is the blueprint of this library. Especially the unit tests proved to be very helpful.
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The npm package github receives a total of 14,649 weekly downloads. As such, github popularity was classified as popular.
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