git-clone-server

A microservice to clone Git repositories and serve the files for download. This project uses node.js and Express.

demo

Example client

The example client sends a request and then redirects to the directory listing.

Run a dev server

yarn && yarn start

This project uses flow types so be aware when making changes to the source files in src/ you have to run yarn flow-remove to affect the files in lib/.

API

POST /

with JSON data: {"url": <url of git repo> }

responds with JSON data {"data": {"root": <root path>, "files": [...]}} or {"error": <error message>}.

URLs are validated using git-clone-able and POST requests are limited to 10 per hour per IP but of course you can modify this in the config to your liking.

Example

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"url": "https://github.com/kasbah/test-repo"}' http://localhost:4000

Should respond with:

{
    "data": {
        "root" : "/files/ce28fe0",
        "files": [
            "test-dir/test-file-2",
            "test-file"
        ]
    }
}

The files listed are served at http://localhost:4000/files/... for requests that send the session cookie. Sessions expire an hour after the last request and the files are removed.