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GitHub Api download zip or tarball link

You can wget your way out of the GitHub repo to get a tar file (archive): wget –no-check-certificate https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz # better, if the certificate authorities are present: wget https://github.com/User/repo/archive/master.tar.gz will get you a file named ‘master’ from the user ‘User”s repo ‘repo’. The updated V3 API url is: https://api.github.com/repos/User/repo/:archive_format/:ref # # two possibilities for fomat: … Read more

github search limit results

The Search API will return up to 1000 results per query (including pagination), as documented here: https://developer.github.com/v3/search/#about-the-search-api However, there’s a neat trick you could use to fetch more than 1000 results when executing a repository search. You could split up your search into segments, by the date when the repositories were created. For example, you … Read more

Setting up a Github Commit RSS feed

You want https://github.com/whatever/commits/master.atom, like for the Cloudera flume repository it’s https://github.com/cloudera/flume/commits/master.atom.

How to delete a GitHub repo using the API

If you created the token you’re using through the Applications page, then this token will have these scopes: user, public_repo, repo, gist. You can verify this by making an API request with that token and looking at the response HTTP headers: curl -v -H ‘Authorization: token xxx’ https://api.github.com Look for the X-OAuth-Scopes response header which … Read more

Get all file names from a Github repo through the Github API

This will have to be relative to a particular commit, as some files may be present in some commits and absent in others, so before you can look at files you’ll need to use something like List commits on a repository: GET /repos/:owner/:repo/commits If you’re just interested in the latest commit on a branch you … Read more

How to retrieve the list of all GitHub repositories of a person?

You can use the github api for this. Hitting https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME/repos will list public repositories for the user USERNAME.

How do I find the default branch for a repository using the Github v3 API

Make a call to /repos/:owner/:repo and read the default_branch property value – this is the name of the default branch. See example response here: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get

Is there a way to lock individual files or directories on fork when using git?

No chance, if file is not mergeable and you need to lock it, use a centralized solution instead of GIT, i.e. SVN or ClearCase.

How to create a commit and push into repo with GitHub API v3?

Solution using the requests library: NOTES: I use the requests library to do the calls to GitHub REST API v3. 1. Get the last commit SHA of a specific branch # GET /repos/:owner/:repo/branches/:branch_name last_commit_sha = response.json()[‘commit’][‘sha’] 2. Create the blobs with the file’s content (encoding base64 or utf-8) # POST /repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs # { # “content”: … Read more

Github API: Retrieve all commits for all branches for a repo

I have encountered the exact same problem. I did manage to acquire all the commits for all branches within a repository (probably not that efficient due to the API). Approach to retrieve all commits for all branches in a repository As you mentioned, first you gather all the branches: # https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/branches https://api.github.com/repos/twitter/bootstrap/branches The key that … Read more