User statistics

user.mjs

import { Octokit } from "octokit";
import dotenv from "dotenv";

dotenv.config();

const octokit = new Octokit({ 
    auth: process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN,
});

const username = process.argv[2]

const response = await octokit.rest.repos.listForUser({ username: username });
const followers = await octokit.rest.users.listFollowersForUser({ username: username });

let set = new Set();
response.data.map(repo => {
    if (repo.language) {
        set.add(repo.language);
    }
});

console.log("User public statistics: %s", username);
console.log("Repositories: %d", response.data.length)
console.log("Languages used: %s", Array.from(set).join(", "));
console.log("Followers: %d", followers.data.length);

Exercise:

Create an application that takes a GitHub username as input and uses the GitHub API to display statistics about the user, such as the number of repositories they have, the languages they use, their followers, etc

Install node packages:

npm install dotenv octokit

Create .env file with a PAT that has public_repo and read:user access:

GITHUB_TOKEN="ghp_XYZ"

Run:

node user.mjs octocat

References:

• https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/v20
  • Followers: listFollowersForUser
  • Repos: listForUser