Github API List all repositories and repo's content

Question

If I was to go about displaying just MY github repositories and their contents on an external website how would i go about doing this? Are there any source code\'s you can

Answer 1

Here is a nice way just with the curl. You should change the $user and the $token variableso to make this script work for your case. The code is tested with a valid token so I hope it will work for you. As you could see in the comments of the code the token could be generated from your github account from here https://github.com/settings/applications

<?php
  // for example your user
  $user = 'flesheater';

  // A token that you could generate from your own github 
  // go here https://github.com/settings/applications and create a token
  // then replace the next string
  $token = 'ced38b0e522a5c5e8ab10';

  // We generate the url for curl
  $curl_url = 'https://api.github.com/users/' . $user . '/repos';

  // We generate the header part for the token
  $curl_token_auth = 'Authorization: token ' . $token;

  // We make the actuall curl initialization
  $ch = curl_init($curl_url);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

  // We set the right headers: any user agent type, and then the custom token header part that we generated
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('User-Agent: Awesome-Octocat-App', $curl_token_auth));

  // We execute the curl
  $output = curl_exec($ch);

  // And we make sure we close the curl       
  curl_close($ch);

  // Then we decode the output and we could do whatever we want with it
  $output = json_decode($output);

  if (!empty($output)) {
    // now you could just foreach the repos and show them
    foreach ($output as $repo) {
      print '<a href="' . $repo->html_url . '">' . $repo->name . '</a><br />';
    }
  }

?>

Also since we like github, we should cache the results in the end and fetch them once per day or so.

Answer 2

You need to parse the respone Githubs API sends you back. In PHP you can do this by using json_decode() which will give you an array to work with. You can use something like curl to issue the requests from PHP and then get the results and parse them as described above.
Another way to do this are REST Client classes for PHP, have a look at this one here for example.