Birkheadc's Github Repo Parser

Searches all of a user's public repositories for a specific folder, then parses those folders in order to collect meta-data about those repositories. Essentially facilitating the creation of advanced, API-legible READMEs.

How to Install

npm install @birkheadc/github-repo-parser

How to Use

import { GithubRepoParser } from '@birkheadc/github-repo-parser';

const parser = new GithubRepoParser({
  username: //your-github-username

  root?: //defaults to 'repo-parser-target', the name of the folder you will create in your repository to hold the data you want to store

  apiToken?: //optional, requests will use a token if provided, which will substantially increase Github API's rate limit
});

const data: GithubRepoParserResult[] | undefined = await parser.getAllData([ 'fileType1', 'fileType2' ]);
// array of fileTypes is optional

if (data !== undefined) {
  data.forEach(result => {
    // do what you want with your data!
    // if fileTypes were passed, result.files[fileType] will contain an array of strings, which are links to the file on github
  })
}

Setting Up the Repository

In order for the package to find and parse your repository, you must do two things:

First, you must include a keyword in your repository's README. This keyword defaults to repo-parser-target, but can be changed to whatever you like by passing a different value to the root? option of the constructor's config. Try to use something unique, or the parser might flag repositories you didn't mean it to.
Second, you must create a folder with the name equal to this keyword. In this folder, create data.json, and fill it with the json object you want this repository to return. Also, if you want to host static files, create files, and in files, create any number of folders for each file type, like images or audio.

The end result is that GithubRepoParser.getAllData([ 'images', 'audio' ]) will return an array of GithubRepoParserResults.

Each result will contain result.json, which will be the contents of data.json; and result.files.images and result.files.audio, each of which will be an array of strings linking back to the static files in the files/images and files/audio folders.

Repo-Parser

This repository is parse-able by... this package! The contents of the repo-parser-target directory are meant to be consumed by an API using this very package.