toggle-gist-star

Unstar the gist if you've already starred it, otherwise star it

const toggleGistStar = require('toggle-gist-star');

token = 'xxx'; // your Github API access token

toggleGistStar('908bced575270f6ef80e', {token})
.then(() => {
  console.log('Starred https://gist.github.com/908bced575270f6ef80e');
  return toggleGistStar('908bced575270f6ef80e', {token});
})
.then(() => {
  console.log('Unstarred https://gist.github.com/908bced575270f6ef80e');
});

Installation

Use npm.

npm install toggle-gist-star

API

const toggleGistStar = require('toggle-gist-star');

toggleGistStar(gistId [, options])

gistId: String (a gist ID, for example https://gist.github.com/tim/34309 → '34309')
options: Object (gh-get options)
Return: Promise instance

It checks if a gist with the given ID is starred or not, then unstars it if it's already starred by the authenticated user, otherwise stars it.

The promise will be fulfilled with an http.IncomingMessage object if successful, otherwise rejected with an error.

toggleGistStar('ab12852099', {token: 'xxxxxx'}).catch(err => {
  err.message;
  //=> '404 Not Found (Gist not found: https://gist.github.com/ab12852099)'
});

toggleGistStar('2790533', {token: 'invalid_token'}).catch(err => {
  err.message;
  //=> '401 Unauthorized (Bad credentials)'
});

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Shinnosuke Watanabe

Licensed under the MIT License.