GitHub API Wrapper

A really simple GitHub API wrapper for Node.js

Installation

npm install node-github-wrapper

Initialization

var githubAPI = require('node-github-wrapper')({options});

Options:

• appName: Name of the application. Will be used in the request headers.
• apiRoot: Base URL of the GitHub API. Defaults to https://api.github.com.
• headers: Headers to be sent with all requests. Defaults to: {'Accept': 'application-json', 'User-Agent': appName}.

Please note that this library does not handle OAuth authorization. If you need to make requests that require authorization, you'll need to handle that separately, using something like node-oauth and pass the resulting access token to this library using setAccessToken().

API

.setAccessToken(token)

Sets the access token to be used by all requests that require authorization.

.get(data, callback)

Sends a GET request to the API, with request data and a callback function.

.post(data, callback)

Sends a POST request to the API, with request data and a callback function.

.put(data, callback)

Sends a PUT request to the API, with request data and a callback function.

.del(data, callback)

Sends a DELETE request to the API, with request data and a callback function (method is called del() because delete is a reserved word in JavaScript).

Request data

Each requests receives as an argument an object with a set of options.

url

API endpoint, without the API root prefix.

{url: '/user'}

Generates https://api.github.com/user.

urlParameters

A list of key/value parameters to be added to the endpoint URL.

{
  url: '/user',
  urlParameters: {
    foo: 'bar',
    baz: 'qux'
  }

Generates https://api.github.com/user?foo=bar&baz=qux.

body (optional)

The body to include in the request, in JSON format.

body: {
  foo: 'bar',
  baz: 'qux'
}

headers (optional)

Overrides the default headers to be sent with the request.

headers: {
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'User-Agent': 'My app name'
}

auth (optional)

Whether to authenticate the request. Defaults to false.

auth: true