@nodesecure/github

Github

Download and (optionaly) extract github repository archive.

Requirements

• Node.js v16 or higher

Getting Started

This package is available in the Node Package Repository and can be easily installed with npm or yarn.

$ npm i @nodesecure/github
# or
$ yarn add @nodesecure/github

Usage example

import * as github from "@nodesecure/github";

const utils = await github.download("NodeSecure.utils");
console.log(utils.location);

const scanner = await github.downloadAndExtract("NodeSecure.scanner");
console.log(scanner.location);

const contributors = await github.getContributorsLastActivities("NodeSecure", "scanner");
console.log(contributors);

API

export interface DownloadOptions {
  /**
   * The destination (location) to extract the tar.gz
   *
   * @default process.cwd()
   */
  dest?: string;
  /**
   * The default github branch name (master, main ...)
   *
   * @default main
   */
  branch?: string;
  /**
   * Authentication token for private repositories
   *
   * @default process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN
   */
  token?: string;
}

export type ExtractOptions = DownloadOptions & {
  /**
   * Remove the tar.gz archive after a succesfull extraction
   *
   * @default true
   */
  removeArchive?: boolean;
}

export interface DownloadResult {
  /** Archive or repository location on disk */
  location: string;
  /** Github repository name */
  repository: string;
  /** Github organization name */
  organization: string;
}

export interface GetContributorsLastActivities {
  token?: string;
}

export interface GetContributorsLastActivitiesResult {
  [key: string]: {
    repository: string;
    actualRepo: boolean,
    lastActivity: string;
  }[];
}
export function download(repo: string, options?: DownloadOptions): Promise<DownloadResult>;
export function downloadAndExtract(repo: string, options?: ExtractOptions): Promise<DownloadResult>;
export function getContributorsLastActivities(
  owner: string,
  repository: string,
  options?: GetContributorsLastActivities
): Promise<GetContributorsLastActivitiesResult | null>;
export function setToken(githubToken: string): void;

Private repositories

To work with private repositories you can either setup a GITHUB_TOKEN system variable or use setToken method:

import * as github from "@nodesecure/github";

github.setToken("...");

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Gentilhomme 💻 📖 👀 🛡️ 🐛

Alexandre Malaj 💻 📖

Nicolas Hallaert 💻

License

MIT