Minimalistic client to access GitHub’s REST and GraphQL APIs.
Install the package from CRAN as usual:
install.packages("gh")library(gh)Use the gh() function to access all API endpoints. The endpoints are
listed in the documentation.
The first argument of gh() is the endpoint. You can just copy and
paste the API endpoints from the documentation. Note that the leading
slash must be included as well.
From
https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/repos#list-repositories-for-a-user
you can copy and paste GET /users/{username}/repos into your gh()
call. E.g.
my_repos <- gh("GET /users/{username}/repos", username = "gaborcsardi")
vapply(my_repos, "[[", "", "name")
#> [1] "after" "alexr" "altlist" "argufy"
#> [5] "ask" "async" "brokenPackage" "butcher"
#> [9] "css" "curl" "disposables" "dotenv"
#> [13] "empty" "falsy" "finmix" "franc"
#> [17] "fswatch" "homebrew-rim" "ISA" "keynote"
#> [21] "keypress" "lpSolve" "macBriain" "maxygen"
#> [25] "MISO" "msgtools" "multicolor" "notifier"
#> [29] "odbc" "parr"The JSON result sent by the API is converted to an R object.
Parameters can be passed as extra arguments. E.g.
my_repos <- gh(
"/users/{username}/repos",
username = "gaborcsardi",
sort = "created")
vapply(my_repos, "[[", "", "name")
#> [1] "r-builds" "homebrew-rim" "rgdal"
#> [4] "readxl" "sdcHierarchies" "skopeo"
#> [7] "playground" "r-system-requirements" "butcher"
#> [10] "tidyr" "empty" "rim"
#> [13] "tidyverse.org" "finmix" "tune"
#> [16] "multicolor" "pkgdepends" "css"
#> [19] "curl" "usethis2" "r-debug"
#> [22] "purrr" "redfish" "win32-console-docs"
#> [25] "vt100-emulator" "RSQLite" "pkgload"
#> [28] "rencfaq" "renv" "stockfish"POST, PATCH, PUT, and DELETE requests can be sent by including the HTTP verb before the endpoint, in the first argument. E.g. to create a repository:
new_repo <- gh("POST /user/repos", name = "my-new-repo-for-gh-testing")and then delete it:
gh("DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}", owner = "gaborcsardi",
repo = "my-new-repo-for-gh-testing")By default the GITHUB_PAT environment variable is used. Alternatively,
one can set the .token argument of gh().
Supply the page parameter to get subsequent pages:
my_repos2 <- gh("GET /orgs/{org}/repos", org = "r-lib", page = 2)
vapply(my_repos2, "[[", "", "name")
#> [1] "gargle" "remotes" "jose" "backports" "rcmdcheck"
#> [6] "vdiffr" "callr" "mockery" "here" "revdepcheck"
#> [11] "processx" "vctrs" "debugme" "usethis" "rlang"
#> [16] "pkgload" "httrmock" "pkgbuild" "prettycode" "roxygen2md"
#> [21] "pkgapi" "zeallot" "liteq" "keyring" "sloop"
#> [26] "styler" "ansistrings" "archive" "later" "crancache"- The
GITHUB_API_URLenvironment variable is used for the default github api url. - One of
GITHUB_PATorGITHUB_TOKENenvironment variables is used, in this order, as default token.
Please note that the gh project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
MIT © Gábor Csárdi, Jennifer Bryan, Hadley Wickham