Hubot-compatible Github API wrapper for Node.js
npm install githubot[![Build Status]](http://travis-ci.org/iangreenleaf/githubot)
npm install githubot
Use it in your Hubot script:
``coffeescript`
module.exports = (robot) ->
github = require('githubot')(robot)
Or use it on its own:
`coffeescript`
github = require('githubot')
You can pass additional options to the constructor if needed.
Make any call to the Github v3 API, get the parsed JSON response:
`coffeescript
github.get "https://api.github.com/users/iangreenleaf/gists", (gists) ->
console.log gists[0].description
github.get "users/foo/repos", {type: "owner"}, (repos) ->
console.log repos[0].url
data = { description: "A test gist", public: true, files: { "abc.txt": { content: "abcdefg" } } }
github.post "gists", data, (gist) ->
console.log gist.url
github.patch "repos/my/repo/issues/11", {status: "closed"}, (issue) ->
console.log issue.html_url
`
If process.env.HUBOT_GITHUB_TOKEN is present, you're automatically authenticated. Sweet!
If you don't have a token yet, run this:
curl -i https://api.github.com/authorizations -d '{"note":"githubot","scopes":["repo"]}' -u "yourusername"
Enter your Github password when prompted. When you get a response, look for the "token" value.
If you have two-factor authentication enabled, you'll have to append -H 'X-GitHub-OTP: 123456' to the end of the above command, or you'll receive HTTP 401 Unauthorized instead of your token.
GitHubot will log errors automatically if it has a logger. Used with Hubot, these will go to the Hubot logger.
If your script would like to catch errors as well, define an extra callback:
`coffeescript`
github.handleErrors (response) ->
console.log "Oh no! #{response.statusCode}!"
The callback takes a response argument with the following keys:
* error: The error message.statusCode
* : The status code of the API response, if present.body
* : The body of the API response, if present.
You can also pass an error handler in the options instead.
If process.env.HUBOT_GITHUB_USER is present, we can help you guess a repo's full name:
`coffeescript`
github.qualified_repo "githubot" # => "iangreenleaf/githubot"
This will happen with the bespoke methods as well:
`coffeescript`
gh.branches "githubot", (branches) ->
Options may be passed to githubot in three different ways,
in increasing order of precedence:
1. Through shell environment variables.
2. Through the constructor:
`coffeescript`
github = require('githubot')(robot, apiVersion: 'preview')
3. Using , which lets you pass options to only some requests:
`coffeescript`
github = require('githubot')(robot)
preview = github.withOptions(apiVersion: 'preview')
# Uses preview API
preview.get '/preview/feature', -> # ...
# Uses regular API
github.get '/regular/feature', -> # ...
* token/process.env.HUBOT_GITHUB_TOKEN:
GitHub API token. Required to perform authenticated actions.
* apiVersion/process.env.HUBOT_GITHUB_API_VERSION:
Version of the API
to access. Defaults to 'v3'.
* defaultUser/process.env.HUBOT_GITHUB_USER:
Default GitHub username to use if one is not given.
* apiRoot/process.env.HUBOT_GITHUB_API:
The base API URL. This is useful for Enterprise Github installations.
For example, HUBOT_GITHUB_API='https://myprivate.github.int'
* concurrentRequests/process.env.HUBOT_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS:
Limits the allowed number of concurrent requests to the GitHub API. Defaults to 20.
* errorHandler:
Function for custom error handling logic. See handling errors for more details.
Mostly a work in progress, but here's a taste of what I have in mind:
`coffeescript`
gh.branches "foo/bar", (branches) ->
console.log branches[0].name
#### Create a branch ####
`coffeescriptBranch from master
gh.branches( "foo/bar" ).create "my_radical_feature", (branch) ->
console.log branch.sha
#### Merge a branch ####
coffeescript
Merge a branch into master
gh.branches( "foo/bar" ).merge "my_radical_feature", (mergeCommit) ->
console.log mergeCommit.messageMerge a branch into a different target
gh.branches( "foo/bar" ).merge "my_radical_feature", into: "hotfixes", (mergeCommit) ->
console.log mergeCommit.messagebase is an alias for into
gh.branches( "foo/bar" ).merge "my_radical_feature", base: "hotfixes", (mergeCommit) ->
console.log mergeCommit.messageProvide your own commit message
gh.branches( "foo/bar" ).merge "my_radical_feature", message: "Merge my radical feature!", (mergeCommit) ->
console.log mergeCommit.sha
#### Delete a branch ####
coffeescript
gh.branches( "foo/bar" ).delete "my_radical_feature", ->
console.log "Deleted my branch!"
`$3
Note: These methods are smart and automatically use the
version header. No intervention needed!#### List deployments ####
`coffeescript
gh.deployments "foo/bar", (deploys) ->
console.log deploys.length
`#### Create a deployment ####
coffeescript
gh.deployments("foo/bar")
.create 'my-branch', payload: {env: 'staging'}, description: "Ship it!", (deploy) =>
console.log deploy.url
`#### Deployment statuses ####
coffeescript
gh.deployments("foo/bar").status deployId, (deploys) ->
console.log deploys[0].state
``Install the dependencies:
npm install
Run the tests:
make test
make test-all # Runs additional slower "integration" style tests, generally not necessary
Pull requests encouraged!
I'm vastly more likely to merge code that comes with tests. If you're confused by the testing process,
ask and I can probably point you in the right direction.
These lovely people have contributed to githubot.
[Build Status]: https://travis-ci.org/iangreenleaf/githubot.png?branch=master