GitHub.jl

A Julia package targeting the GitHub API (v3)

Quick start

julia> Pkg.add("GitHub")

julia> using GitHub

julia> my_auth = authenticate("an_access_token_for_your_account")
GitHub Authorization (8caaff**********************************)

julia> star("JuliaWeb", "GitHub.jl"; auth = my_auth)  # :)

julia> stargazers("JuliaWeb", "GitHub.jl")

API

Authentication

All API methods accept a named parameter auth of type GitHub.Authorization. By default, this parameter will be an instance of AnonymousAuth, and the API request will be made without any privileges.

If you would like to make requests as an authorized user, you need to authenticate.

authenticate(token::String)

• token is an "access token" which you can read about generating here

Users

The User type is used to represent GitHub accounts. It contains lots of interesting information about an account, and can be used in other API requests.

user(username; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• username is the GitHub login
• if you provide auth potentially much more user information will be returned

followers(user::String)
followers(user::User)

following(user::String)
following(user::User)

• user is either a GitHub login or User type
• the returned data will be an array of User types

Organizations

Organizations let multiple users manage repositories together.

org(name; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• name is the GitHub organization login name

orgs(user::String; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• user is the GitHub account about which you are curious

Repos

The Repo type is used to represent a repository hosted by GitHub. It contains all sorts of useful information about a repositories usage and history.

repo(owner, repo_name; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is the GitHub login of the User or Organization that manages the repo
• repo_name is the repositories name on GitHub

repos(owner::Owner; auth = AnonymousAuth(),
                   typ = nothing,
                   sort = nothing,
                   direction = nothing)

• owner is a User or Organization
• typ is "all", "member", or "owner" (the default) for User
• typ is "all" (the default), "public", "private", "forks", "sources", or "member".
• sort is "created", "updated", "pushed", or "full_name" (the default).
• direction is "asc" or "desc" (the default).

contributors(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth()
                          include_anon = false)

• owner is the GitHub login of the User or Organization that manages the repo
• repo is the repositories name on GitHub
• include_anon will tell GitHub to include anonymous contributions

Statistics

Repository statistics are interesting bits of information about activity. GitHub caches this data when possible, but sometimes a request will trigger regeneration and come back empty. For this reason all statistics functions have an argument attempts which will be the number of tries made before admitting defeat.

contributor_stats(owner, repo, attempts = 3; auth = AnonymousAuth())

commit_activity(owner, repo, attempts = 3; auth = AnonymousAuth())

code_frequency(owner, repo, attempts = 3; auth = AnonymousAuth())

participation(owner, repo, attempts = 3; auth = AnonymousAuth())

punch_card(owner, repo, attempts = 3; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login
• repo is a repository name
• attempts is the number of tries made before admitting defeat

Forks

forks(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

fork(owner, repo, organization = ""; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login
• repo is a repository name

Starring

stargazers(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

starred(user; auth = AnonymousAuth())

star(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

unstar(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login
• repo is a repository name
• user is a GitHub login

Watching

watchers(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

watched(user; auth = AnonymousAuth())

watching(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

watch(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

unwatch(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login
• repo is a repository name
• user is a GitHub login

Collaborators

Collaborators are users that work together and share access to a repository.

collaborators(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth())

iscollaborator(owner, repo, user; auth = AnonymousAuth())

add_collaborator(owner, repo, user; auth = AnonymousAuth()

remove_collaborator(owner, repo, user; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login
• repo is a repository name
• user is the GitHub login being inspected, added, or removed

Examples

julia> using GitHub

julia> collaborators("JuliaLang","Julia")
26-element Array{Any,1}:
 User - amitmurthy
 User - andreasnoackjensen
 ⋮
 User - tshort
 User - vtjnash

julia> o = org("JuliaLang")
User - JuliaLang (The Julia Language, http://julialang.org/)

julia> collaborators(o,"julia")
26-element Array{Any,1}:
 User - amitmurthy
 User - andreasnoackjensen
 ⋮
 User - tshort
 User - vtjnash

julia> r = repo("JuliaLang","julia")
Repo - JuliaLang/julia (http://julialang.org/)
"The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing."

julia> collaborators(r)
26-element Array{Any,1}:
 User - amitmurthy
 User - andreasnoackjensen
 ⋮
 User - tshort
 User - vtjnash

Issues

The Issue type is used to represent issues and pull requests made against repositories.

issue(owner, repo, num; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login or User type
• repo is the name of a repository
• num is the issue numer

issues(owner, repo; auth = AnonymousAuth(),
                    milestone = nothing,
                    state = nothing,
                    assignee = nothing,
                    creator = nothing,
                    mentioned = nothing,
                    labels = nothing,
                    sort = nothing,
                    direction = nothing,
                    since = nothing)

• owner is a GitHub login or User type
• repo is a repository name
• milestone can be an int or string ("*" matches all milestones, "none" returns issues with no milestone)
• state can be "open" or "closed"
• assignee can be the name of a user ("*" matches all users, "none" returns issues with no assignee)
• creator can be the user that created the issue
• mentioned is for any user mentioned in the issue
• labels is an array of labels to match
• sort can be "created", "updated", or "comments" (defaults to "created")
• direction can be "asc" or "desc" (defaults to "desc")
• since can be an ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ) string

create_issue(owner, repo, title; auth = AnonymousAuth(),
                                 body = nothing,
                                 assignee = nothing,
                                 milestone = nothing,
                                 labels = nothing)

• owner is a GitHub login or User type
• repo is a repository name
• title is the title of your new issue
• body can be a text description of your issue
• assignee is a GitHub login
• milestone is the milestone number
• labels is an array of label strings

edit_issue(owner, repo, num; auth = AnonymousAuth(),
                             title = nothing,
                             body = nothing,
                             assignee = nothing,
                             state = nothing,
                             milestone = nothing,
                             labels = nothing)

• owner is a GitHub login or User type
• repo is a repository name
• num is the issue number
• title can be a new title for the issue
• body can be a new body for the issue
• assignee can be the new assignee
• state can be "open" or "closed"
• milestone can be the milestone number
• labels can be an array of label strings

Comments

The Comment type is used to represent comments on Github issues.

comments(owner, repo, num; auth = AnonymousAuth())

• owner is a GitHub login or User type
• repo is a repository name
• num is the issue number