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Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API.
Upgrading? Check the Upgrade Guide before bumping to a new major version.
API wrappers should reflect the idioms of the language in which they were written. Octokit.rb wraps the GitHub API in a flat API client that follows Ruby conventions and requires little knowledge of REST. Most methods have positional arguments for required input and an options hash for optional parameters, headers, or other options:
client = Octokit::Client.new # Fetch a README with Accept header for HTML format client.readme 'al3x/sovereign', :accept => 'application/vnd.github.html'
Install via Rubygems
... or add to your Gemfile
Access the library in Ruby:
API methods are available as client instance methods.
# Provide authentication credentials client = Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => 'personal_access_token') # You can still use the username/password syntax by replacing the password value with your PAT. # client = Octokit::Client.new(:login => 'defunkt', :password => 'personal_access_token') # Fetch the current user client.userAdditional query parameters
When passing additional parameters to GET based request use the following syntax:
# query: { parameter_name: 'value' } # Example: Get repository listing by owner in ascending order client.repos({}, query: {type: 'owner', sort: 'asc'}) # Example: Get contents of a repository by ref # https://api.github.com/repos/octokit/octokit.rb/contents/path/to/file.rb?ref=some-other-branch client.contents('octokit/octokit.rb', path: 'path/to/file.rb', query: {ref: 'some-other-branch'})
Most methods return a Resource
object which provides dot notation and []
access for fields returned in the API response.
client = Octokit::Client.new # Fetch a user user = client.user 'jbarnette' puts user.name # => "John Barnette" puts user.fields # => <Set: {:login, :id, :gravatar_id, :type, :name, :company, :blog, :location, :email, :hireable, :bio, :public_repos, :followers, :following, :created_at, :updated_at, :public_gists}> puts user[:company] # => "GitHub" user.rels[:gists].href # => "https://api.github.com/users/jbarnette/gists"
Note: URL fields are culled into a separate .rels
collection for easier Hypermedia support.
While most methods return a Resource
object or a Boolean, sometimes you may need access to the raw HTTP response headers. You can access the last HTTP response with Client#last_response
:
user = client.user 'andrewpthorp' response = client.last_response etag = response.headers[:etag]
When the API returns an error response, Octokit will raise a Ruby exception.
A range of different exceptions can be raised depending on the error returned by the API - for example:
400 Bad Request
response will lead to an Octokit::BadRequest
error403 Forbidden
error with a "rate limited exceeded" message will lead to a Octokit::TooManyRequests
errorAll of the different exception classes inherit from Octokit::Error
and expose the #response_status
, #response_headers
and #response_body
. For validation errors, #errors
will return an Array
of Hash
es with the detailed information returned by the API.
Octokit supports the various authentication methods supported by the GitHub API:
Using your GitHub username and password is the easiest way to get started making authenticated requests:
client = Octokit::Client.new(:login => 'defunkt', :password => 'c0d3b4ssssss!') user = client.user user.login # => "defunkt"
While Basic Authentication allows you to get started quickly, OAuth access tokens are the preferred way to authenticate on behalf of users.
OAuth access tokens provide two main benefits over using your username and password:
To use an access token with the Octokit client, pass your token in the :access_token
options parameter in lieu of your username and password:
client = Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => "<your 40 char token>") user = client.user user.login # => "defunkt"
You can create access tokens through your GitHub Account Settings.
Two-Factor AuthenticationTwo-Factor Authentication brings added security to the account by requiring more information to login.
Using two-factor authentication for API calls is as simple as adding the required header as an option:
client = Octokit::Client.new \ :login => 'defunkt', :password => 'c0d3b4ssssss!' user = client.user("defunkt", :headers => { "X-GitHub-OTP" => "<your 2FA token>" })
Octokit supports reading credentials from a netrc file (defaulting to ~/.netrc
). Given these lines in your netrc:
machine api.github.com
login defunkt
password c0d3b4ssssss!
You can now create a client with those credentials:
client = Octokit::Client.new(:netrc => true) client.login # => "defunkt"
But I want to use OAuth you say. Since the GitHub API supports using an OAuth token as a Basic password, you totally can:
machine api.github.com
login defunkt
password <your 40 char token>
Note: Support for netrc requires adding the netrc gem to your Gemfile or .gemspec
.
Octokit also supports application-only authentication using OAuth application client credentials. Using application credentials will result in making anonymous API calls on behalf of an application in order to take advantage of the higher rate limit.
client = Octokit::Client.new \ :client_id => "<your 20 char id>", :client_secret => "<your 40 char secret>" user = client.user 'defunkt'
Octokit.rb also supports authentication using a GitHub App, which requires a generated JWT token.
client = Octokit::Client.new(:bearer_token => "<your jwt token>") client.app # => about GitHub App info
Default results from the GitHub API are 30, if you wish to add more you must do so during Octokit configuration.
Octokit::Client.new(access_token: "<your 40 char token>", per_page: 100)
Many GitHub API resources are paginated. While you may be tempted to start adding :page
parameters to your calls, the API returns links to the next, previous, and last pages for you in the Link
response header as Hypermedia link relations.
issues = client.issues 'rails/rails' issues.concat client.get(client.last_response.rels[:next].href)
For smallish resource lists, Octokit provides auto pagination. When this is enabled, calls for paginated resources will fetch and concatenate the results from every page into a single array:
client.auto_paginate = true issues = client.issues 'rails/rails' issues.length # => 702
You can also enable auto pagination for all Octokit client instances:
Octokit.configure do |c| c.auto_paginate = true end
Note: While Octokit auto pagination will set the page size to the maximum 100
, and seek to not overstep your rate limit, you probably want to use a custom pattern for traversing large lists.
With a bit of setup, you can also use Octokit with your GitHub Enterprise instance.
Interacting with the GitHub.com APIs in GitHub EnterpriseTo interact with the "regular" GitHub.com APIs in GitHub Enterprise, simply configure the api_endpoint
to match your hostname. For example:
Octokit.configure do |c| c.api_endpoint = "https://<hostname>/api/v3/" end client = Octokit::Client.new(:access_token => "<your 40 char token>")Interacting with the GitHub Enterprise Admin APIs
The GitHub Enterprise Admin APIs are under a different client: EnterpriseAdminClient
. You'll need to have an administrator account in order to use these APIs.
admin_client = Octokit::EnterpriseAdminClient.new( :access_token => "<your 40 char token>", :api_endpoint => "https://<hostname>/api/v3/" ) # or Octokit.configure do |c| c.api_endpoint = "https://<hostname>/api/v3/" c.access_token = "<your 40 char token>" end admin_client = Octokit.enterprise_admin_client.newInteracting with the GitHub Enterprise Management Console APIs
The GitHub Enterprise Management Console APIs are also under a separate client: EnterpriseManagementConsoleClient
. In order to use it, you'll need to provide both your management console password as well as the endpoint to your management console. This is different from the API endpoint provided above.
management_console_client = Octokit::EnterpriseManagementConsoleClient.new( :management_console_password => "secret", :management_console_endpoint = "https://hostname:8633" ) # or Octokit.configure do |c| c.management_console_endpoint = "https://hostname:8633" c.management_console_password = "secret" end management_console_client = Octokit.enterprise_management_console_client.new
You may need to disable SSL temporarily while first setting up your GitHub Enterprise install. You can do that with the following configuration:
client.connection_options[:ssl] = { :verify => false }
Do remember to turn :verify
back to true
, as it's important for secure communication.
While Octokit::Client
accepts a range of options when creating a new client instance, Octokit's configuration API allows you to set your configuration options at the module level. This is particularly handy if you're creating a number of client instances based on some shared defaults. Changing options affects new instances only and will not modify existing Octokit::Client
instances created with previous options.
Every writable attribute in {Octokit::Configurable} can be set one at a time:
Octokit.api_endpoint = 'http://api.github.dev' Octokit.web_endpoint = 'http://github.dev'
or in batch:
Octokit.configure do |c| c.api_endpoint = 'http://api.github.dev' c.web_endpoint = 'http://github.dev' end
Default configuration values are specified in {Octokit::Default}. Many attributes will look for a default value from the ENV before returning Octokit's default.
# Given $OCTOKIT_API_ENDPOINT is "http://api.github.dev" client.api_endpoint # => "http://api.github.dev"
Deprecation warnings and API endpoints in development preview warnings are printed to STDOUT by default, these can be disabled by setting the ENV OCTOKIT_SILENT=true
.
By default, Octokit does not timeout network requests. To set a timeout, pass in Faraday timeout settings to Octokit's connection_options
setting.
Octokit.configure do |c| c.api_endpoint = ENV.fetch('GITHUB_API_ENDPOINT', 'https://api.github.com/') c.connection_options = { request: { open_timeout: 5, timeout: 5 } } end
You should set a timeout in order to avoid Ruby’s Timeout module, which can hose your server. Here are some resources for more information on this:
Starting in version 2.0, Octokit is hypermedia-enabled. Under the hood, {Octokit::Client} uses Sawyer, a hypermedia client built on Faraday.
Resources returned by Octokit methods contain not only data but hypermedia link relations:
user = client.user 'technoweenie' # Get the repos rel, returned from the API # as repos_url in the resource user.rels[:repos].href # => "https://api.github.com/users/technoweenie/repos" repos = user.rels[:repos].get.data repos.last.name # => "faraday-zeromq"
When processing API responses, all *_url
attributes are culled into the link relations collection. Any url
attribute becomes .rels[:self]
.
You might notice many link relations have variable placeholders. Octokit supports URI Templates for parameterized URI expansion:
repo = client.repo 'pengwynn/pingwynn' rel = repo.rels[:issues] # => #<Sawyer::Relation: issues: get https://api.github.com/repos/pengwynn/pingwynn/issues{/number}> # Get a page of issues rel.get.data # Get issue #2 rel.get(:uri => {:number => 2}).dataThe Full Hypermedia Experience™
If you want to use Octokit as a pure hypermedia API client, you can start at the API root and follow link relations from there:
root = client.root root.rels[:repository].get :uri => {:owner => "octokit", :repo => "octokit.rb" } root.rels[:user_repositories].get :uri => { :user => "octokit" }, :query => { :type => "owner" }
Octokit 3.0 aims to be hypermedia-driven, removing the internal URL construction currently used throughout the client.
Version 4.0
state
in the method options.Version 3.0 includes a couple breaking changes when upgrading from v2.x.x:
The default media type is now v3
instead of beta
. If you need to request the older media type, you can set the default media type for the client:
Octokit.default_media_type = "application/vnd.github.beta+json"
or per-request
client.emails(:accept => "application/vnd.github.beta+json")
The long-deprecated Octokit::Client#create_download
method has been removed.
Version 2.0 includes a completely rewritten Client
factory that now memoizes client instances based on unique configuration options. Breaking changes also include:
:oauth_token
is now :access_token
:auto_traversal
is now :auto_paginate
Hashie::Mash
has been removed. Responses now return a Sawyer::Resource
object. This new type behaves mostly like a Ruby Hash
, but does not fully support the Hashie::Mash
API.Octokit::TooManyRequests
and Octokit::TooManyLoginAttempts
search_*
methods from v1.x are now found at legacy_search_*
DateTime
objects. Previous versions outputted DateTime fields as 'String' objects.Since Octokit employs Faraday under the hood, some behavior can be extended via middleware.
Often, it helps to know what Octokit is doing under the hood. You can add a logger to the middleware that enables you to peek into the underlying HTTP traffic:
stack = Faraday::RackBuilder.new do |builder| builder.use Faraday::Retry::Middleware, exceptions: Faraday::Retry::Middleware::DEFAULT_EXCEPTIONS + [Octokit::ServerError] # or Faraday::Request::Retry for Faraday < 2.0 builder.use Octokit::Middleware::FollowRedirects builder.use Octokit::Response::RaiseError builder.use Octokit::Response::FeedParser builder.response :logger do |logger| logger.filter(/(Authorization: "(token|Bearer) )(\w+)/, '\1[REMOVED]') end builder.adapter Faraday.default_adapter end Octokit.middleware = stack client = Octokit::Client.new client.user 'pengwynn'
I, [2013-08-22T15:54:38.583300 #88227] INFO -- : get https://api.github.com/users/pengwynn
D, [2013-08-22T15:54:38.583401 #88227] DEBUG -- request: Accept: "application/vnd.github.beta+json"
User-Agent: "Octokit Ruby Gem 2.0.0.rc4"
I, [2013-08-22T15:54:38.843313 #88227] INFO -- Status: 200
D, [2013-08-22T15:54:38.843459 #88227] DEBUG -- response: server: "GitHub.com"
date: "Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:54:40 GMT"
content-type: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
transfer-encoding: "chunked"
connection: "close"
status: "200 OK"
x-ratelimit-limit: "60"
x-ratelimit-remaining: "39"
x-ratelimit-reset: "1377205443"
...
See the Faraday README for more middleware magic.
If you want to boost performance, stretch your API rate limit, or avoid paying the hypermedia tax, you can use Faraday Http Cache.
Add the gem to your Gemfile
Next, construct your own Faraday middleware:
stack = Faraday::RackBuilder.new do |builder| builder.use Faraday::HttpCache, serializer: Marshal, shared_cache: false builder.use Octokit::Response::RaiseError builder.adapter Faraday.default_adapter end Octokit.middleware = stack
Once configured, the middleware will store responses in cache based on ETag fingerprint and serve those back up for future 304
responses for the same resource. See the project README for advanced usage.
If you want to hack on Octokit locally, we try to make bootstrapping the project as painless as possible. To start hacking, clone and run:
This will install project dependencies and get you up and running. If you want to run a Ruby console to poke on Octokit, you can crank one up with:
Using the scripts in ./script
instead of bundle exec rspec
, bundle console
, etc. ensures your dependencies are up-to-date.
We want both the Octokit.rb and larger Octokit communities to be open and welcoming environments. Please read and follow both in spirit and letter Code of Conduct.
Running and writing new testsOctokit uses VCR for recording and playing back API fixtures during test runs. These cassettes (fixtures) are part of the Git project in the spec/cassettes
folder. If you're not recording new cassettes you can run the specs with existing cassettes with:
Octokit uses environmental variables for storing credentials used in testing. If you are testing an API endpoint that doesn't require authentication, you can get away without any additional configuration. For the most part, tests use an authenticated client, using a token stored in ENV['OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_TOKEN']
. There are several different authentication methods used across the api. Here is the full list of configurable environmental variables for testing Octokit:
OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_LOGIN
GitHub login name (preferably one created specifically for testing against). OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_PASSWORD
Password for the test GitHub login. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_TOKEN
Personal Access Token for the test GitHub login. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID
Test OAuth application client id. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET
Test OAuth application client secret. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_REPOSITORY
Test repository to perform destructive actions against, this should not be set to any repository of importance. Automatically created by the test suite if nonexistent Default: api-sandbox
OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_ORGANIZATION
Test organization. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_LOGIN
GitHub Enterprise login name. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN
GitHub Enterprise token. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_MANAGEMENT_CONSOLE_PASSWORD
GitHub Enterprise management console password. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_ENDPOINT
GitHub Enterprise hostname. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_ENTERPRISE_MANAGEMENT_CONSOLE_ENDPOINT
GitHub Enterprise Management Console endpoint. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_MANAGE_GHES_ENDPOINT
GitHub Enterprise Server GHES Manage Endpoint. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_MANAGE_GHES_USERNAME
GitHub Enterprise Server GHES Manage Username. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_MANAGE_GHES_PASSWORD
GitHub Enterprise Server GHES Manage Password. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_INTEGRATION
GitHub Integration owned by your test organization. OCTOKIT_TEST_GITHUB_INTEGRATION_INSTALLATION
Installation of the GitHub Integration specified above. OCTOKIT_TEST_INTEGRATION_PEM_KEY
File path to the private key generated from your integration.
Since we periodically refresh our cassettes, please keep some points in mind when writing new specs.
This library aims to support and is tested against the following Ruby implementations:
If something doesn't work on one of these Ruby versions, it's a bug.
This library may inadvertently work (or seem to work) on other Ruby implementations, but support will only be provided for the versions listed above.
If you would like this library to support another Ruby version, you may volunteer to be a maintainer. Being a maintainer entails making sure all tests run and pass on that implementation. When something breaks on your implementation, you will be responsible for providing patches in a timely fashion. If critical issues for a particular implementation exist at the time of a major release, support for that Ruby version may be dropped.
This library aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. Violations of this scheme should be reported as bugs. Specifically, if a minor or patch version is released that breaks backward compatibility, that version should be immediately yanked and/or a new version should be immediately released that restores compatibility. Breaking changes to the public API will only be introduced with new major versions. As a result of this policy, you can (and should) specify a dependency on this gem using the Pessimistic Version Constraint with two digits of precision. For example:
spec.add_dependency 'octokit', '~> 3.0'
The changes made between versions can be seen on the project releases page.
Making Repeating RequestsIn most cases it would be best to use webhooks, but sometimes webhooks don't provide all of the information needed. In those cases where one might need to poll for progress or retry a request on failure, we designed Octopoller. Octopoller is a micro gem perfect for making repeating requests.
Octopoller.poll(timeout: 15.seconds) do begin client.request_progress # ex. request a long running job's status rescue Error :re_poll end end
This is useful when making requests for a long running job's progress (ex. requesting a Source Import's progress).
Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Wynn Netherland, Adam Stacoviak, Erik Michaels-Ober
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