GitHub release search

This small command line utility aims at searching through release notes for a certain search term. This can be useful when looking for the release date of a certain feature or pull request number.

Install

git clone git@github.com:KittyGiraudel/github-release-search
cd github-release-search
npm install

Create a personal GitHub access token with read access on repositories, then put it in an .env file like so:

OAUTH_TOKEN=your_token_here

Usage

Fetching releases and caching them (path can be specific with --cacheDir) to speed things up and avoid API limitations:

npm run fetch -- --repo owner/repo

Searching for something:

npm run search -- "hello" --repo owner/repo

To narrow down the results, you can use --until and --since flags which accept either a SemVer version or a date (default format DD/MM/YYYY, can be passed with --format).

npm run search -- "hello" --repo owner/repo --since 2.1.0
npm run search -- "hello" --repo owner/repo --since 23/04/2017
npm run search -- "hello" --repo owner/repo --since 04/23/2017 --format MM/DD/YYYY
npm run search -- "hello" --repo owner/repo --since 2.1.0 --until 3.0.5

Example

$ npm run search -- "lodash" --repo facebookincubator/create-react-app

> node src/commands/program.js search "lodash" "--repo" "facebookincubator/create-react-app"

Date  Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:27:45 GMT
Tag   v1.0.12
Url   https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/releases/tag/v1.0.12
Lines [#2938](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/pull/2938) Remove superfluous lodash usage. ([@Timer](https://github.com/Timer))