octopi

Octopi is a Ruby interface to GitHub API v2 (develop.github.com).

To install it as a Gem, just run:

  $ sudo gem install octopi

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Authenticated Usage

Seamless authentication using .gitconfig defaults

If you have your ~/.gitconfig file in place, and you have a [github] section (if you don’t, take a look at this GitHub Guides entry: github.com/guides/tell-git-your-user-name-and-email-address), you can use seamless authentication using this method:

  authenticated do
    repo = Repository.find(:name => "api-labrat", :user => "fcoury")
  end

Explicit authentication

Sometimes, you may not want to get authentication data from ~/.gitconfig. You want to use GitHub API authenticated as a third party. For this use case, you have a couple of options too.

1. Providing login and token inline:

  authenticated_with "mylogin", "mytoken" do
    repo = Repository.find(:name => "api-labrat", :user => "fcoury")
    issue = repo.open_issue :title => "Sample issue",
      :body => "This issue was opened using GitHub API and Octopi"
    puts issue.number
  end

2. Providing login and password inline:

  authenticated_with "mylogin", "password" do
    repo = Repository.find(:name => "api-labrat", :user => "fcoury")
    issue = repo.open_issue :title => "Sample issue",
      :body => "This issue was opened using GitHub API and Octopi"
    puts issue.number
  end

3. Providing a YAML file with authentication information:

Use the following format:

  #
  # Octopi GitHub API configuration file
  #

  # GitHub user login and token
  login: github-username
  token: github-token

  # Trace level
  # Possible values:
  #   false - no tracing, same as if the param is ommited
  #   true  - will output each POST or GET operation to the stdout
  #   curl  - same as true, but in addition will output the curl equivalent of each command (for debugging)
  trace: curl

And change the way you connect to:

  authenticated_with :config => "github.yml" do |g|
    (...)
  end

Anonymous Usage

This reflects the usage of the API to retrieve information on a read-only fashion, where the user doesn’t have to be authenticated.

Users API

Getting user information

  user = User.find("fcoury")
  puts "#{user.name} is being followed by #{user.followers.join(", ")} and following #{user.following.join(", ")}"

The bang methods `followers!` and `following!` retrieves a full User object for each user login returned, so it has to be used carefully.

  user.followers!.each do |u|
    puts "  - #{u.name} (#{u.login}) has #{u.public_repo_count} repo(s)"
  end

Searching for user

  users = User.find_all("silva")
  puts "#{users.size} users found for 'silva':"
  users.each do |u|
    puts "  - #{u.name}"
  end

Repositories API

  repo = user.repository("octopi") # same as: Repository.find("fcoury", "octopi")
  puts "Repository: #{repo.name} - #{repo.description} (by #{repo.owner}) - #{repo.url}"
  puts "      Tags: #{repo.tags and repo.tags.map {|t| t.name}.join(", ")}"

Search:

  repos = Repository.find_all("ruby", "git")
  puts "#{repos.size} repository(ies) with 'ruby' and 'git':"
  repos.each do |r|
    puts "  - #{r.name}"
  end

Issues API integrated into the Repository object:

  issue = repo.issues.first
  puts "First open issue: #{issue.number} - #{issue.title} - Created at: #{issue.created_at}"

Single issue information:

  issue = repo.issue(11)

Commits API information from a Repository object:

  first_commit = repo.commits.first
  puts "First commit: #{first_commit.id} - #{first_commit.message} - by #{first_commit.author['name']}"

Single commit information:

  puts "Diff:"
  first_commit.details.modified.each {|m| puts "#{m['filename']} DIFF: #{m['diff']}" }

Author

• Felipe Coury - felipecoury.com
• HasMany.info blog - hasmany.info

Contributors

In alphabetical order:

• Ryan Bigg - frozenplague.net
• Brandon Calloway - github.com/bcalloway
• runpaint - github.com/runpaint

Thanks guys!

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Felipe Coury. See LICENSE for details.