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philschatz/octokat.js: :octocat: Github API Client using Promises or callbacks. Intended for the browser or NodeJS.

Try it out in your browser! (REPL)

Octokat.js provides a minimal higher-level wrapper around GitHub's API. It is being developed in the context of an EPUB3 Textbook editor for GitHub and a simple serverless kanban board (demo).

This package can be used in nodejs or in the browser as an AMD module or using browserify.

Octokat runs in node or a browser and is available in npm.

npm install --save octokat

For the full list of supported methods see ./src/grammar/, ./examples/, Travis tests, or the ./test directory.

This library closely mirrors the https://developer.github.com/v3 documentation.

For example:

// `GET /repos/:owner/:repo` in the docs becomes:
octo.repos(owner, repo).fetch()

// `POST /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/:number/comments` becomes:
octo.repos(owner, repo).issues(number).comments.create(params)

The last method should be a verb method. The verb method makes the async call and should either have a callback as the last argument or it returns a Promise (see Promises or Callbacks).

The basic structure of the verb method is:

Below are some examples for using the library. For a semi-autogenerated list of more examples see ./examples/.

You construct the URL by chaining properties and methods together and an async call is made once a verb method is called (see below).

octo = new Octokat()
repo = octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js')
// Check if the current user is a collaborator on a repo
repo.collaborators.contains(USER)
.then((isCollaborator) => {
  // If not, then star the Repo
  if (!isCollaborator) {
    repo.star.add()
    .then(() => {
      // Done!
    })
  }
})

Or, update a specific comment:

octo = new Octokat({token: ...})
octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').issues(1).comments(123123).update({body: 'Hello'})
.then(() => {
  // Done!
})

This library supports Node.js-style callbacks as well as Promises.

To use a callback, just specify it as the last argument to a method. To use a Promise, do not specify a callback and the return value will be a Promise.

Example (get information on a repo):

// Using callbacks
octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').fetch((err, repo) => {
  if (err) console.error(err)
  // Do fancy stuff...
})

// Using Promises
octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').fetch()
.then((repo) => {
  // Do fancy stuff
}).then(null, (err) => console.error(err))

To read the contents of a file:

var octo = new Octokat()
var repo = octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js')
repo.contents('README.md').read() // Use `.read` to get the raw file.
.then((contents) => {        // `.fetch` is used for getting JSON
  console.log(contents)
});

To read the contents of a binary file:

var octo = new Octokat()
var repo = octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js')
repo.contents('README.md').readBinary() // Decodes the Base64-encoded content
.then((contents) => {
  console.log(contents)
})

To read the contents of a file and JSON metadata:

var octo = new Octokat()
var repo = octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js')
repo.contents('README.md').fetch()
.then((info) => {
  console.log(info.sha, info.content)
})

To update a file you need the blob SHA of the previous commit:

var octo = new Octokat({token: 'API_TOKEN'})
var repo = octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js')
var config = {
  message: 'Updating file',
  content: base64encode('New file contents'),
  sha: '123456789abcdef', // the blob SHA
  // branch: 'gh-pages'
}

repo.contents('README.md').add(config)
.then((info) => {
  console.log('File Updated. new sha is ', info.commit.sha)
})

Creating a new file is the same as updating a file but the sha field in the config is omitted.

To remove a file:

var octo = new Octokat({token: 'API_TOKEN'})
var repo = octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js')
var config = {
  message: 'Removing file',
  sha: '123456789abcdef',
  // branch: 'gh-pages'
}

repo.contents('README.md').remove(config)
.then(() => {
  console.log('File Updated')
});

All asynchronous methods accept a Node.js-style callback and return a Common-JS Promise.

Create an Octokat instance.

var octo = new Octokat({
  username: "USER_NAME",
  password: "PASSWORD"
})

var cb = function (err, val) { console.log(val) }

octo.zen.read(cb)
octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').fetch(cb) // Fetch repo info
octo.me.starred('philschatz', 'octokat.js').add(cb) // Star a repo

Or if you prefer OAuth:

var octo = new Octokat({
  token: "OAUTH_TOKEN"
})
In a browser using RequireJS
define(['octokat'], (Octokat) => {
  var octo = new Octokat({
    username: "YOU_USER",
    password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
  })
})

Install instructions:

npm install octokat --save
var Octokat = require('octokat')
var octo = new Octokat({
  username: "YOU_USER",
  password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
})

// You can omit `cb` and use Promises instead
var cb = function (err, val) { console.log(val) }

octo.zen.read(cb)
octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').fetch(cb)    // Fetch repo info
octo.me.starred('philschatz', 'octokat.js').add(cb) // Star a repo
octo.me.starred('philschatz', 'octokat.js').remove(cb) // Un-Star a repo

This file can be included using the bower package manager:

bower install octokat --save

This is all you need to get up and running:

<script src="../dist/octokat.js"></script>
<script>
  var octo = new Octokat()
  octo.zen.read((err, message) => {
    if (err) { throw new Error(err) }
    alert(message)
  })
</script>

GitHub provides URL patterns in its JSON responses. These are automatically converted into methods. You can disable this by setting disableHypermedia: true in the options when creating a new Octokat(...).

For example:

octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').fetch()
.then((repo) => {
  // GitHub returns a JSON which contains something like compare_url: 'https://..../compare/{head}...{base}
  // This is converted to a method that accepts 2 arguments
  repo.compare(sha1, sha2).fetch()
  .then((comparison) => console.log('Done!'))
})

If a .fetch() returns paged results then nextPage(), previousPage(), firstPage() and lastPage() are added to the returned Object. For example:

octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').commits.fetch()
.then((someCommits) => {
  someCommits.nextPage()
  .then((moreCommits) => {
    console.log('2nd page of results', moreCommits)
  })
})

As standard with the Github API, passing a per_page parameter allows you to control the number of results per page. For example:

octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').issues.fetch({per_page: 100})
  .then(...)

Octokat will send the Preview Accept header by default for several Preview APIs.

If you want to change this behavior you can force an acceptHeader when instantiating Octokat.

For example:

var octo = new Octokat({
  token: 'API_TOKEN',
  acceptHeader: 'application/vnd.github.cannonball-preview+json'
})

To use the Enterprise APIs add the root URL when instantiating Octokat:

var octo = new Octokat({
  token: 'API_TOKEN',
  rootURL: 'https://example.com/api/v3'
})
Using EcmaScript 6 Generators

This requires Node.js 0.11 with the --harmony-generators flag:

var Octokat = require('octokat')
var octo = new Octokat()

var zen  = yield octo.zen.read()
var info = yield octo.repos('philschatz', 'octokat.js').fetch()

console.log(zen)
console.log(info)

Uploading release assets requires a slightly different syntax because it involves setting a custom contentType and providing a possibly binary payload.

To upload (tested using nodejs) you can do the following:

var contents = fs.readFileSync('./build.js')

repo.releases(123456).fetch()
.then((release) => {

  release.upload('build.js', 'application/javascript', contents)
    .then((resp) => {
      // Success!
    })
})

If you are using webhooks, the JSON returned by GitHub can be parsed using octo.parse(json) to yield a rich object with all the methods Octokat provides.

octo.parse(json) is asynchronous and can take either a callback or returns a promise.

Instead of using Octokat to construct URLs, you can construct them yourself and still use Octokat for sending authentication information, caching, pagination, and parsing Hypermedia.

// Specify the entire URL
octo.fromUrl('https://api.github.com/repos/philschatz/octokat.js/issues/1').fetch(cb)

// Or, just the path
octo.fromUrl('/repos/philschatz/octokat.js/issues').fetch({state: 'open'}, cb)

If the URL is a Hypermedia Template then you can fill in the fields by passing them in as an additional argument.

params = {
  owner: 'philschatz'
  repo: 'octokat.js'
  name: 'dist.js'
}
octo.fromUrl('https://uploads.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases{/id}/assets{?name}', params)
// returns https://uploads.github.com/repos/philschatz/octokat.js/releases/assets?name=dist.js

The unit tests are named to illustrate examples of using the API. See Travis tests or run npm test to see them.

fetch-vcr is used to generate recorded HTTP fixtures from GitHub. If you are adding tests be sure to include the updated fixtures in the Pull Request.


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