Github remote repository creator

Published on Sun Aug 08 2021

Written by Nacho Consolani

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GitHub

Python

Script

Project Status: WIP – Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public. version npm version GitHub Workflow Status(branch) typescript

README

Initial Configuration

Clone github-wrapper

git clone https://github.com/Apolofx/github-wrapper.git

GitHub Personal Token

  1. Go to the Settings section in your GitHub session.
  2. Go to the Developer settings tab in the left column.
  3. Select Personal access tokens.
  4. Choose Generate new token.
  5. Select the scope of permissions you will have through the API.
  6. Generate the token.
  7. Go to the github-wrapper directory, and in the keys.py file, replace the value of the GITHUB_API_KEYS field with the token obtained previously.

Add GitHub-Wrapper to PATH

Linux

  1. Open the .bashrc file located in your /home directory (for example, /home/your-username/.bashrc) in a text editor.
  2. Add export PATH="github-wrapper-dir:$PATH" at the end of the file, where github-wrapper-dir is the directory where repo-create.py is stored.
  3. Save the .bashrc file.
  4. Restart the terminal.

Mac OS X

  1. Open the .bash_profile file located in your /home directory (for example, /Users/your-username/.bash_profile) in a text editor.
  2. Add export PATH="github-wrapper-dir:$PATH" at the end of the file, where github-wrapper-dir is the directory where repo-create.py is stored.
  3. Save the .bash_profile file.
  4. Restart the terminal.

Add Permissions and Alias

  1. Inside the script folder, run chmod +x repo-create.py.
  2. (Optional) Add the alias to avoid having to type '.py'. Open your .bash_alias file and add the line alias repo-create='repo-create.py'.

Features

The script creates a remote repository on GitHub by consuming the GitHub API with HTTPS requests.

Usage

  1. cd ~/project-dir/
  2. git init
  3. git add . THE DIRECTORY MUST CONTAIN AT LEAST ONE FILE
  4. git commit -m 'initial commit'
  5. repo-create

TODO

Add delete repo permission and method.