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November 22, 2017 21:58
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A simple JavaScript demo app, running in Node, creates a new file in a repo on GitHub using the REST API
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| const request = require ("request"); | |
| const fs = require ("fs"); | |
| var myPost = { | |
| username: "scripting", | |
| repo: "test1", | |
| path: "ideas/plot.html", | |
| content: "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html><body>A programmer writes a demo app. Everyone lives happily ever after.</body></html>", | |
| type: "text/html", | |
| committer: { | |
| name: "Dave Winer", | |
| email: "dave.winer@gmail.com" | |
| }, | |
| message: "Yet another testing change", | |
| userAgent: "Dave's GitHub Upload Demo App" | |
| }; | |
| fs.readFile ("config.json", function (err, data) { | |
| var config = JSON.parse (data); | |
| var bodyStruct = { | |
| message: myPost.message, | |
| committer: { | |
| name: myPost.committer.name, | |
| email: myPost.committer.email | |
| }, | |
| content: new Buffer (myPost.content).toString ('base64') | |
| }; | |
| var username = myPost.username; | |
| var url = "https://" + username + ":" + config.password + "@api.github.com/repos/" + username + "/" + myPost.repo + "/contents/" + myPost.path; | |
| const theRequest = { | |
| method: "PUT", | |
| url: url, | |
| body: JSON.stringify (bodyStruct), | |
| headers: { | |
| "User-Agent": myPost.userAgent, | |
| "Content-Type": myPost.type | |
| } | |
| }; | |
| request (theRequest, function (err, response, body) { | |
| if (err) { | |
| console.log (err.message); | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| console.log (JSON.stringify (response, undefined, 4)); | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
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