I got curious over the weekend and wonder what it would be like to query the GitHub API in C using libCurl. I quickly realized I was going to need a JSON parser, so I reached for libfastjson, which is a fork of json-c brought to us by the rsyslog folks.
The project has evolved! it now mounts a full list of your stared repos to a directory of your choosing using Fuse.
The code has now been refactored to use LMDB for persistence, and Repo access.
You're going to need a; Compiler, Make of some sort, libfastjson with headers, and libcurl with it's headers, libfuse, and now lmdb with it's headers.
All you need to do is run:
make
The fetcher needs two environment variables GH_USER; your github username, and GH_TOKEN; a personal access token to your public repos. Execution might look something like this:
export GH_USER=dmolik
export GH_TOKEN=<redacted>
./githubfs <some dir>
For example:
> export GH_USER=dmolik
> export GH_TOKEN=example123
> ./githubfs t
> githubfs t
t
├── aalhour
│ └── awesome-compilers
├── acassen
│ └── keepalived
├── adapta-project
│ └── adapta-gtk-theme
├── admiraltyio
│ └── multicluster-scheduler
└── AidoP
└── Skypaper
> cat t/acassen/keepalived
URL: git@github.com:acassen/keepalived.git
Description: Keepalived