The GitHub API — Lightning introduction

A lightning introduction to the GitHub API for the Hamburg Hackathon, June 2014.

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1. The GitHub API ⚡️
2. Ivan Žužak @izuzak Helpers Mike Adolphs @fooforge James Dennes @jdennes
3. What can you build?
4. Do something creative with Contributions
5. Build a Dashboard
6. Integrate with something using Webhooks ⚓️
7. Docs
8. Octokit
9. Third-party Libraries
10. Debugging ✨ curl -v or it didn’t happen
11. Rate Limits › curl -I https://api.github.com/users/defunkt/repos HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: GitHub.com X-RateLimit-Limit: 60 X-RateLimit-Remaining: 59 X-RateLimit-Reset: 1401815393 Unauthenticated: 60 requests per hour Authenticated: 5,000 requests per hour
12. Pagination › curl -I https://api.github.com/users/defunkt/repos HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: GitHub.com Link: <https://api.github.com/user/2/repos?page=2>; rel=“next", <https://api.github.com/user/2/repos?page=4>; rel="last" Don’t get trolled by pagination
13. Thanks!