#Github Firehose NodeJS library

A library that will connect to github and emit events from the Github Event API in near-real-time

Installation

• Clone this repo and then npm install
• Download the contents and then npm install
• Easiest! npm install github-firehose

Usage

//Include the firehose class
var Firehose = require('./github-firehose');

//Create a new instance
var firehose = new Firehose();

//Add error handler
firehose.on('error', function(e) {
	console.log('ERROR: ' . e.stack);
});

//Add event handler
firehose.on('event', function(event) {
	console.log('EVENT: ', event.id);
});

//Start consuming
firehose.start();

Events

The events you can listen to with the event name are simply an object representing the data on http://developer.github.com/v3/events/