ghrr

Github Realtime Relay

Receive all Github events in realtime with socket.io from the Github Realtime Relay. This is probably the simplest way to create a realtime application on top of Github.

Server (Node)

Install the socket.io-client from npm.

npm install socket.io-client

To receive all events you can hook onto the /events namespace and subscribe to a specific Github Event. Please use lower case for subscribing to the event types.

var url = 'http://ghrr.lukasmartinelli.ch:80/events';
var socket = require('socket.io-client')(url);
 
socket.on('pushevent', function(event){
   console.log('Push: ' + event.repository.full_name);
});
 

There is also a /statistics namespace used by the GHRR web interface that sends usage statistics for the Event Types.

var url = 'http://ghrr.lukasmartinelli.ch:80';
var io = require('socket.io-client')(url);
io('/statistics').on('types', function(typeCounts) {
    console.log('PushEvents: ' + typeCounts.pushevent);
}

Web Application

You need to add the socket.io-client to your web application.

<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/socket.io-client/1.2.0/socket.io.js"></script>

You can now connect directly to the public websocket. We support CORS for all domains so you should not encounter any problems.

var url = 'ghrr.lukasmartinelli.ch:80/events';
var socket = io(url);
 
socket.on('pushevent', function (event) {
   console.log('Push: ' + event.repository.full_name);
});

Host it yourself

Install with npm.

npm install ghrr

In order to poll all events you need an OAUTH access token. Run the github realtime relay with a poll rate of 1000 and on port 80.

npm install ghrr
npm run start "YOUR GITHUB ACCESS TOKEN" 1000 80

Now you can visit the status page displaying live statistics.