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The GitHub API — Lightning introduction

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June 07, 2014
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The GitHub API — Lightning introduction

A lightning introduction to the GitHub API for the Hamburg Hackathon, June 2014.

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James Dennes

June 07, 2014

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Transcript

  1. The GitHub API ⚡️

  2. Ivan Žužak @izuzak Helpers Mike Adolphs @fooforge James Dennes @jdennes

  3. What can you build?

  4. Do something creative with Contributions

  5. Build a Dashboard

  6. Integrate with something using Webhooks ⚓️

  7. Docs

  8. Octokit

  9. Third-party Libraries

  10. Debugging ✨ curl -v or it didn’t happen

  11. Rate Limits › curl -I https://api.github.com/users/defunkt/repos HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server:

    GitHub.com X-RateLimit-Limit: 60 X-RateLimit-Remaining: 59 X-RateLimit-Reset: 1401815393 Unauthenticated: 60 requests per hour Authenticated: 5,000 requests per hour

  12. Pagination › curl -I https://api.github.com/users/defunkt/repos HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: GitHub.com

    Link: <https://api.github.com/user/2/repos?page=2>; rel=“next", <https://api.github.com/user/2/repos?page=4>; rel="last" Don’t get trolled by pagination

  13. Thanks!