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Guides: The GitHub API

Brand New API at develop.github.com

We’re adding an API bit by bit. This page will serve as the documentation. The basic url template:

https://github.com/api/version/format/username/repository/type/object

Current version: v1
Acceptable formats: json, xml, yaml
Acceptable types: commits, commit

Grabbing all recent commits:

$ curl -i https://github.com/api/v1/xml/caged/gitnub/commits/master | less

Grabbing a single commit:

$ curl -i https://github.com/api/v1/json/defunkt/github-gem/commit/c26d4ce9807ecf57d3f9eefe19ae64e75bcaaa8b | less

Repository search:

$ curl -i https://github.com/api/v1/xml/search/merb | less

You can also grab a user’s info, including a list of his repositories:

$ curl -i https://github.com/api/v1/json/defunkt | less

(Using token authentication, described below, will enable listing of private repositories.)

With JSON requests, you can have the result passed to a callback method of your choice:

$ curl -i https://github.com/api/v1/json/defunkt?callback=myCallbackMethod | less

Projects using API

GitHub Badge (see also initial blog post)
Badjo
YAGHB – Yet another github badge
textmate gem—Command-line package manager for textmate
github commit badge – GitHub commit badge, showing the most recent commits of chosen repos
‘gadgets’ project and ‘demo generator’ (see also initial blog post)
GitHub Projects Wordpress Plug-in – Also at the official Wordpress plug-in directory
github-repos – Tutorial and Example
github-terminal , working example at Github Terminal
git-trip – Visualize git repositories.
github-social-badge – Social badge: visualize projects and followers. Working example
codeigniter-github – CodeIgniter / PHP wrapper library.
github user page bookmarklet – adds additional repo stats to github user pages and provides repository sorting.
RefactorMe – Site posts daily code snippets from open source projects. All code is powered by Github Gists’ and the site will also create the gist for users if they do not want to create it themselves.

Additional resources

Token Authentication
Making sense of the participation graph data ( explanation of the participation data )

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