- Github_Good_First_Issues is a script to scrap
Good First Issues
from GitHub Repositories. - It uses Github API to fetch repo and issues.
- Then displays them to the user.
There are 3 ways to fetch repositories
DB.js
file in the folder (That can be overwritten by the user)- Github Trending Page
- Starred repositories of a user (User input)
- Get your
Github Developer Token
and follow the steps there to generate your Token key - In a file named
token.js
paste the token. - Open terminal and do the following :
cd Rotten-Scripts\JavaScript\Github_Good_First_Issues
- Run
npm install
to install all necessary dependencies - Run
node Github_Good_First_Issues.js
and Voila! you are ready to go 😉
Hi I'm Madhav Jha author of this script.
It is true that github api is freely available for use by public but it is restricted to 60 requests per hour and for repositories with large number of issues this will exceed it's limit.
So do get your Github Developer Token
before running this script