GitHub

The GitHub API v3 for Haskell.

Some functions are missing; these are functions where the GitHub API did not work as expected. The full GitHub API is in beta and constantly improving.

Installation

In your project's cabal file:

Build-depends:       github

Or from the command line:

cabal v1-install github

Example Usage

See the samples in the samples/ directory.

Note: some samples might be outdated.

Documentation

For details see the reference documentation on Hackage.

Each module lines up with the hierarchy of documentation from the GitHub API.

Request functions (ending with R) construct a data type which can be executed in IO by executeRequest functions. They are all listed in the root GitHub module.

IO functions produce an IO (Either Error a), where a is the actual thing you want. You must call the function using IO goodness, then dispatch on the possible error message. Here's an example from the samples:

Many function have samples under samples/ directory.

{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-}
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Prelude.Compat

import Data.Text         (Text, pack)
import Data.Text.IO as T (putStrLn)
import Data.Monoid       ((<>))

import GitHub (github')
import qualified GitHub

main :: IO ()
main = do
    possibleUsers <- github' GitHub.usersFollowingR "phadej"
    T.putStrLn $ either (("Error: " <>) . pack . show)
                        (foldMap ((<> "\n") . formatUser))
                        possibleUsers

formatUser :: GitHub.SimpleUser -> Text
formatUser = GitHub.untagName . GitHub.simpleUserLogin

Contributions

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how you can help.

Copyright

Copyright 2011-2012 Mike Burns. Copyright 2013-2015 John Wiegley. Copyright 2016-2019 Oleg Grenrus.

Available under the BSD 3-clause license.

Alternative

Library github-rest also provides an interface to the GitHub API. It compares itself to github here: https://github.com/LeapYear/github-rest#comparison-to-other-libraries