github-api-basic

Simple helper functions to use and call the github api with streaming

This module exports some basic building block functions to help you build github API calls.

Installation

This module is installed via npm:

$ npm install github-api-basic

Example Usage - simple API call

var githubApi= require('github-api-basic/github-api');
githubApi(githubToken, '/users/eugeneware')
  .then(function (response) {
    console.log(response.body);
  })
  .catch(function (err) {
    console.error(err);
  });

/***
{ login: 'eugeneware',
  id: 38154,
  avatar_url: 'https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38154?v=3',
  gravatar_id: '',
  url: 'https://api.github.com/users/eugeneware',
  html_url: 'https://github.com/eugeneware',
  ...
  followers: 190,
  following: 103,
  created_at: '2008-12-03T23:25:48Z',
  updated_at: '2016-03-18T03:42:46Z' }
 */

Example Usage - streaming multiple pages of results using node.js streams

var githubApi= require('github-api-basic/github-api-stream');
githubApiStream(githubToken, '/users/eugeneware/repos')
  .on('data', console.log);

/***
{ id: 474829,
  name: 'airspec',
  full_name: 'eugeneware/airspec',
  owner:
  ... }
  ...
{ id: 15649811,
  name: 'angularjs-lively',
  full_name: 'eugeneware/angularjs-lively',
  ... }
 */

API

githubApi(githubToken, endPoint, params)

Calls the github API for a single response, with the given endPoint and will pass a params object as a query string to the query.

endPoint can be prefixed with the API url, or left blank and must start with a starting /.

githubApiStream(githubToken, endPoint, params)

Used for github API queries that can return multiple pages. This returns a Readable stream of the results. The params object passes additional parameters through as an query string object.

endPoint can be prefixed with the API url, or left blank and must start with a starting /.