githubtool

A tool for searching things on github from the commandline. This tool needs python3.

You can search code, repositories, users. Or list repositories owned by a specific user. The --network option will show info for all forks, like how many commits a fork is behind or ahead of the main repo.

You can specify your username:password, or an authentiction token with the --auth commandline argument. Or you can store the auth parameter in a json file named ~/.github_cmdline_rc.

Install

You can insall this tool from pypi using pip:

pip install github-tool

And then execute it like this:

github -l nlitsme

Or run it directly from the source directory using:

python3 github_tool.py -l nlitsme

Examples

List repositories owned by nlitsme:

github -l nlitsme

list all files containing a specific string:

github -a -q specific_string

Find all very large repositories:

github -a -w repo -q "size:>8000000"

Find all very large files:

github -a -w code -q "in:path zip size:>500000000"

or

github -a -w code -q "in:path zip size:400000000..500000000"

Print size and description for a list of repositories:

github nlitsme/ubidump https://github.com/nlitsme/github

List your current ratelimit status:

github --limits

List information for all forks of a specific repository:

github --network https://github.com/nlitsme/extfstools

Or list information for all forks from a user:

github -n -l nlitsme

TODO

• slow down after receiving a '403' - ratelimit triggered.

AUTHOR

Willem Hengeveld itsme@xs4all.nl