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webuild-repos
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#webuild-repos
Get a list of open source repositories in your city from Github.
##install
npm i webuild-repos
##usage
we will create the following folder structure:
.
├── .env
├── config.js
├── node_modules
│ ├── dotenv
│ └── webuild-repos
└── index.js
create a .env file to store all the environment variables:
NODE_ENV=staging # put development if you want debug info from Github
LOCATION=Singapore # your city name
MAX_USERS=1000 # query top number of github users from your city
MAX_REPOS=50 # list out top number of repositories
STAR_LIMIT=50 # each repo must have at least this number of stars
# get from https://github.com/settings/applications/new, refer to https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=secret
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=secret
create a file config.js with the following contents:
var city = 'Singapore';
var country = 'Singapore';
var locationSymbol = 'SG';
module.exports = {
location: city,
city: city,
country: country,
symbol: locationSymbol,
api_version: 'v1',
debug: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development',
githubParams: {
version: '3.0.0',
clientID: process.env.GITHUB_CLIENT_ID,
clientSecret: process.env.GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET,
location: process.env.LOCATION || city,
maxUsers: process.env.MAX_USERS || 1000,
maxRepos: process.env.MAX_REPOS || 50,
starLimit: process.env.STAR_LIMIT || 50,
outfile: __dirname + '/cache.json'
}
};
create index.js:
require('dotenv').load();
var config = require('./config');
var repos = require('webuild-repos').init(config).repos;
setTimeout(function() {
console.log('Found ' + repos.feed.repos.length + ' repos from Github:')
console.log('\nMeta info:')
console.log(repos.feed.meta)
console.log('\nFirst event info:')
console.log(repos.feed.repos[0])
}, 60000);
install the relevant dependencies:
npm i webuild-repos
npm i dotenv
run the file with node index.js
#contribute
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
#versioning
Following the Semantic Versioning guidelines, run the grunt bump, grunt bump:minor or grunt bump:major commands to bump the version accordingly.
#license
webuild-repos is released under the MIT License.
FAQs
generates a list of top open source repositories in your city
We found that webuild-repos demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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