Scripts

Push code to GitHub

Replace a file's github.com url by github.run

# github.com
     https://github.com/a7medkamel/taskmill-help/blob/master/intro/helloworld.js
# becomes github.run
curl https://github.run/a7medkamel/taskmill-help/blob/master/intro/helloworld.js
#            ~~~~~~~~~~

Public repositories are runnable by anyone.

Input

Your script is an express endpoint. The function's signature is (req, req, next). All data posted or streamed to the script is available on your req object. Same goes for query parameters.

Request Body

> Express req.body [express:req.body]

Request Query String

> Express req.query [express:req.query]

Services

We provide built in services that you can make use of. Such services include Email, SMS, and Automated Phone Calls.

Email

You can send emails directly from our servers.

SMS

You can send sms directly from our servers.

MongoDB

Each repository gets a 16mb MongoDB

Cron

You can schedule your scripts to automaticaly run using our cron infrastructure.

Add a .crontab file to the root of your repository.

The .crontab file in https://github.com/a7medkamel/taskmill-help/blob/master/.crontab will run the helloworld.js script every minute.

The cron format is standard, but is limited to curl commands.

*/1 * * * * curl 'https://github.run/a7medkamel/taskmill-help/blob/master/helloworld.js'

Advanced

Manual

Each script can define a usage manual as a comment block. The manual is used to describe variouse aspects of the script's execution.

/*
@title Hello World!
@input
{
  "content-type" : "text/plain",
  "example" : "Hello from TaskMill"
}
*/

You can define input and output contrainsts as well as additional metadata.

attribute	usage
@title	Human readable title
@description	Detailed description of this endpoint
@readme	URL to a readme
@input	JSON with input content-type and example
↳ content-type	text/plain or application/json ...
↳ example	"Example input to assist new users"
@output	JSON object
↳ content-type	text/plain or image/png ...
@pragma	Add hints to script execution and response
↳ editor append	@pragma editor replace instructs editor plugin to replace selection with result
↳ editor replace	@pragma editor append instructs editor plugin to append result
↳ stream	@pragma stream disables body parser leaving req as stream

Content Type

You can set the content-type header either programaticaly or through the scripts manual.

Programaticaly

Manual