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How to Use the GitHub API to List Repositories

As a software engineer you probably use GitHub quite often; as part of your day job, working on your solo projects, or when contributing to open source. Generally speaking, GitHub's UI is clean, intuitive, and nice to use. However, if you need to integrate GitHub with the applications you write, using GitHub manually just won't cut it. That's where GitHub's REST API comes in handy.

This post is a hands-on guide to the GitHub API. More specifically, you'll learn how to use the API to list repositories. We'll walk you through several scenarios, providing code samples and request examples in each one. By the end of the post, you'll feel comfortable when it comes to fetching repositories from GitHub.

Requirements

There are a few boxes you have to check if you want to follow along with the tutorial. First of all, I assume you're comfortable with the concept of RESTful APIs and have some experience working with AP

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Run Chrome headless

The good old PhantomJS times are over. The project is not maintained anymore and it is recommended to switch over to Chrome headless. Just run a local Selenium standalone server:

$ java -jar Sites/selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar


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	layout: iframe-left
	url: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver-bidi/
	---

	# WebDriver Bidi Protocol

	Some interesting new capabilities worth looking into:

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	I hereby claim:

	* I am christian-bromann on github.
	* I am bromann (https://keybase.io/bromann) on keybase.
	* I have a public key ASCKalN1Vw3JP9jI-JIyR0lN9MwNiQXLgVk7RjDhHYjOfQo

	To claim this, I am signing this object:

	const GatsbyPage = require('../pageobjects/home.page');

	describe('My home page', () => {
	beforeEach(() => {
	GatsbyPage.open();
	})

	it('make this test work', () => {
	expect(GatsbyPage.header).toHaveText('Hello Gatsby');
	});

	(async function () {
	const webdriverio = require('webdriverio')

	const browser = webdriverio.remote({
	path: '/',
	desiredCapabilities: {
	browserName: 'firefox'
	}
	})

	{
	"name": "wdio-examples",
	"version": "1.0.0",
	"description": "WebdriverIO examples",
	"dependencies": {
	"wdio-sauce-service": "^0.3.0",
	"wdio-selenium-standalone-service": "^0.0.7",
	"wdio-spec-reporter": "0.0.3",
	"webdriverio": "^4.4.0"
	},

	[{
	"a": 1,
	"b": 2
	}, {
	"c": 3,
	"d": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
	"e": [{
	"some": "object",
	"other": "thing"
	}]

	<testsuites name="phantomjs" tests="10" failures="2" errors="1" disabled="1" time="3.845">
	<testsuite name="google page" tests="4" failures="1" skipped="0" disabled="0" time="2.754" timestamp="Thu May 21 2015 02:10:50 GMT+0200 (CEST)" id="1" file="/Users/christianbromann/Sites/Webprojekte/webdriverjs/DEV/specs/test.google.spec.js">
	<testcase name="should have title1" disabled="false" time="0.977" id="2" file="/Users/christianbromann/Sites/Webprojekte/webdriverjs/DEV/specs/test.google.spec.js" status="passed">
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	GET http://0.0.0.0:4444/wd/hub/session/15787134-1f6b-4da7-a1c8-86c656c366e0/title - {}
	]]></system-out>
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	POST http://0.0.0.0:4444/wd/hub/session/15787134-1f6b-4da7-a1c8-86c656c366e0/url - {"state":"success","sessionId":"15787134-1f6b-4da7-a1c8-86c656c366e0","hCode":845403856,"value":null,"clas