github-api – Page 6 – Tarik Billa

GitHub Api download zip or tarball link

February 17, 2023 by Tarik

You can wget your way out of the GitHub repo to get a tar file (archive): wget –no-check-certificate https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz # better, if the certificate authorities are present: wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz will get you a file named ‘master’ from the user ‘User”s repo ‘repo’. The updated V3 API url is: https://api.github.com/repos/User/repo/:archive_format/:ref # # two possibilities for fomat: … Read more

GitHub API: Repositories Contributed To

February 12, 2023 by Tarik

With GraphQL API v4, you can now get these contributed repo using : { viewer { repositoriesContributedTo(first: 100, contributionTypes: [COMMIT, ISSUE, PULL_REQUEST, REPOSITORY]) { totalCount nodes { nameWithOwner } pageInfo { endCursor hasNextPage } } } } Try it in the explorer If you have more than 100 contributed repo (including yours), you will have … Read more

Is there a way to lock individual files or directories on fork when using git?

February 10, 2023 by Tarik

No chance, if file is not mergeable and you need to lock it, use a centralized solution instead of GIT, i.e. SVN or ClearCase.

Get GitHub avatar from email or name

January 30, 2023 by Tarik

You can append .png to the URL for the User’s profile to get redirected to their avatar. You can add the query param size to specify a size smaller than the default of 460px wide (i.e. it won’t allow larger than 460). Examples: https://github.com/twbs.png https://github.com/npm.png?size=200 https://github.com/github.png?size=40

How can I export GitHub issues to Excel?

January 29, 2023 by Tarik

To export from a private repo using curl, you can run the following: curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/<repo-owner>/<repo-name>/issues –header “Authorization: token <token>” The token can be generated under Personal access tokens Inspect the API description for all details.

Git cli: get user info from username

January 3, 2023 by Tarik

git config user.name git config user.email I believe these are the commands you are looking for. Here is where I found them

Setting up a Github Commit RSS feed

December 25, 2022 by Tarik

You want https://github.com/whatever/commits/master.atom, like for the Cloudera flume repository it’s https://github.com/cloudera/flume/commits/master.atom.

Delete a workflow from GitHub Actions

December 17, 2022 by Tarik

As of July 7, 2020, you can now delete the results of individual workflow runs. To do this, navigate to your workflow, find the workflow run that you want to delete, and select the “…” menu. In this menu, select “Delete workflow run”. The workflow run and its logs will be removed. Currently, you must … Read more

GitHub OAuth2 Token: How to restrict access to read a single private repo

December 12, 2022 by Tarik

I don’t believe you can restrict github OAuth tokens in that way. The github docs for OAuth say that While Git over HTTP with OAuth reduces friction for some types of applications, keep in mind that unlike deploy keys, OAuth tokens work for any repository for which the user has access. So while you can … Read more

How to retrieve the list of all GitHub repositories of a person?

November 29, 2022 by Tarik

You can use the github api for this. Hitting https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME/repos will list public repositories for the user USERNAME.