GitHub API Wrapper for Pharo
# GitHub-API (for Pharo) ## Important note: there meanwhile are three wrappers available: 1. https://balletie.github.io/GitHub/ (from Balletie, very complete) 2. https://github.com/astares/GitHub-API (this one) 3. https://github.com/guillep/github-api (one from Guille, who now bases on the one from Balletie) ## Introduction This project is a **GitHub API Wrapper** for [Pharo](http://www.pharo.rog) to easily access informations from GitHub right from your Pharo image. ### Loading the project You can load the **GitHub-API Wrapper** easily into your Pharo image by using the follwing load expression: ```Smalltalk Metacello new repository: 'github://astares/GitHub-API/repository'; baseline: 'GitHubAPI'; load. ``` ## Usage ### Accessing GitHub users You can access GitHub users in two ways, either using the class **GitHubUser** ```Smalltalk GitHubUser named: 'astares' ``` or by asking the **GitHub** class: ```Smalltalk GitHub userNamed: 'astares' ``` ### Working with a GitHub user #### Retrieving the Avatar If you have a user you can easily access the Avatar as a regular **Form** instance in Pharo: ```Smalltalk (GitHub userNamed: 'astares') avatar ``` returning the following graphic form/picture:  #### Check the user type You can check if the user is an organization or regular user: ```Smalltalk (GitHub userNamed: 'pharo-project') isOrganization ``` which in the particular case of our example returns **true** as the [Pharo-project organization has an account on GitHub](https://github.com/pharo-project). ### Working with a GitHub repositories of a user To access the collection of repositories for a given GitHub user you can use one of the two expressions: ```Smalltalk (GitHubUser named: 'pharo-project') repositories ``` or ```Smalltalk GitHub repositoriesForUser: 'pharo-project' ``` which is a little bit shorter. ## Project Structure ### General packages Package name | Description --------------- | ------------------ GitHub-API-Core | The core package ### Test packages Package name | Description ----------------------- | --------------------------- GitHub-API-Test-Core | Tests for the core package ## License (c) 2016 by Dipl.-Inf. T.Bergmann, Astares Code is released and published with **MIT License** when used for Pharo projects.