The Github plugin retrieves the count of clones
and the size
of a given repository using the GitHub API.
The Github plugin fetches the clones
and size
of the specified repository from the GitHub API for each entry in a manifest's input data.
- The
timestamp
andduration
fields in the input data are used to filter the clone data. The relevant endpoint is documented here. - The GitHub API provides traffic
clones
data for the last two weeks only. - To get the
size
of the repository, the plugin uses this endpoint.
The GitHub API requires a GitHub personal access token to access repository data. More details can be found here. The Github plugin requires the personal access token to be set in the environment variable file with the name GITHUB_TOKEN
.
To run the Github
plugin, an instance of ExecutePlugin
must be created. Then, the plugin's execute()
method can be called, passing required arguments to it.
This is how you could run the model in Typescript:
async function runPlugin() {
const config = {
repo: 'Green-Software-Foundation/if',
};
const parametersMetada = { inputs: {}, outputs: {} };
const github = Github(config, parametersMetdata, {});
const usage = await github.execute([
{
timestamp: '2024-07-05T00:00',
duration: 126000,
},
]);
console.log(usage);
}
runPlugin();
-
repo
: (required) specifies the name of the organization (or owner) and repository name, combined with/
, e.g.Green-Software-Foundation/if
-
timestamp
: (required) specifies the start of the time range for retrieving data from the GitHub API. Note that the GitHub API provides data only for last two weeks, so thetimestamp
should be no earlier than 2 weeks ago. -
duration
: (required) specifies the end of the time range for retrieving data from the API. It can be either number or string like14 * 24 * 60 * 60
.
The mapping
block is an optional block. It is added in the plugin section and allows the plugin to map the output parameters of the plugin. The structure of the mapping
block is:
github-plugin:
path: if-github-plugin
method: Github
mapping:
'size': 'repo-size-if'
'clones': 'repo-clones-if'
-
size
: output the size of the given repository, represented inGB
. -
clones
: output the clones count of the given repository in the specified time range.
The plugin can throw the following errors:
-
APIRequestError
: caused by a problem retrieving data from the API. The error message returned from the API is echoed in the IF error message. -
AuthorizationError
: occurs when either theGITHUB_TOKEN
is not provided in the environment variables or theGITHUB_TOKEN
is invalid.
Clone this repository to your local machine to play with a local copy. In the project root run npm run build && npm link
.
This creates a package with global scope on your local machine that can be installed by your instance of Impact Framework.
Navigate to the Impact Framework root, and run npm link if-github-plugin
.
Now, you can use the plugin by including it in your manifest file as follows:
name: github demo
description:
tags:
initialize:
plugins:
github-plugin:
method: Github
path: if-github-plugin
config:
repo: Green-Software-Foundation/if
tree:
children:
github:
pipeline:
compute:
- github-plugin
defaults:
inputs:
- timestamp: 2024-07-05T00:00
duration: 14 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
Now, when you run the manifest
using the IF CLI, it will load the model automatically. Run using:
if-run -m <path-to-your-manifest>
The plugin simply grabs data for a given repository from the github.com API.
- To calculate
clones
, the plugin uses traffic endpoint. - To get
size
of the repository, the plugin uses get a repository endpoint.