github-contributors

Generate a markdown or JSON list of contributors for a project using the GitHub API.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save github-contributors

Usage

var contributors = require('github-contributors');
var repo = 'assemble/assemble';
var opts = {};
 
contributors(repo, opts, function(err, res) {
  if (err) console.log(err);
  // do stuff with res
});

Contributors

The response is an array of contributor objects with this format:

[{ login: 'doowb',
    id: 995160,
    avatar_url: 'https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/995160?v=3',
    gravatar_id: '',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb',
    html_url: 'https://github.com/doowb',
    followers_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/followers',
    following_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/following{/other_user}',
    gists_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/gists{/gist_id}',
    starred_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/starred{/owner}{/repo}',
    subscriptions_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/subscriptions',
    organizations_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/orgs',
    repos_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/repos',
    events_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/events{/privacy}',
    received_events_url: 'https://api.github.com/users/doowb/received_events',
    type: 'User',
    site_admin: false,
    contributions: 577 }]

authentication

You can avoid hitting the GitHub rate limit by passing a client ID and client secret on the options:

var opts = {id: process.env.CLIENT_ID, secret: process.env.CLIENT_SECRET};
contributors('assemble/assemble', opts, function(err, res) {
  if (err) console.log(err);
  // do stuff with res
});

formatted list

Instead of JSON, get a markdown-formatted list by defining one of the following on options.format

• list
• aligned
• table

Here are some examples.

list

Contributors from jonschlinkert/micromatch

Commits / Contributor

• 253 jonschlinkert
• 4 es128
• 1 UltCombo
• 1 tomByrer

aligned list

Contributors from jonschlinkert/gray-matter

COMMITS / CONTRIBUTOR
------- | -----------
107      jonschlinkert
7        RobLoach
2        doowb
1        ianstormtaylor

table

Contributors from assemble/assemble

Commits	Contributor
949	jonschlinkert
577	doowb
11	adjohnson916
7	Arkkimaagi
4	bendrucker
2	avr
2	thegreatsunra
2	StevenBlack
2	xzyfer
2	ain
1	prettyboymp
1	asans
1	bauerca
1	jordanthomas
1	pburtchaell
1	oncletom
1	tomcode
1	tylerhowarth

About

Related projects

• get-pkgs: Get the package.json for an array of repos from the npm registry, optionally filtering properties… more | homepage
• github-base: JavaScript wrapper that greatly simplifies working with GitHub's API. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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