GitHub GraphQL API

A node client for the GitHub GraphQL API with minimal dependencies created with TypeScript.

Table of contents

Simple Queries

With this package you can more or less just copy and paste the query and the variables from the GitHub GraphQL Explorer for immediate results.

import { GitHub } from 'github-graphql-api';
const github = new GitHub({ token: 'xxx' })
github.query(`
  query {
    rateLimit {
      remaining
    }
  }
`).then(console.log);

Passing variables

With this package you can more or less just copy and paste the query and the variables from the GitHub GraphQL Explorer for immediate results.

import { GitHub } from 'github-graphql-api';
const github = new GitHub({ token: 'xxx' })
 
const getUserBio = async (username) => {
  return await github.query(`
    query (
      $username: String!
    ) {
      user(login: $username) {
        bio
      }
    }
  `, {
    username,
  });
}

Constructor options

new GitHub({
  token: 'xxx',                  // required
  apiUrl: 'https://example.com', // default: https://api.github.com/graphql
})

The GitHub API Token can be created on your Developer Settings page. You are able to define the Permissions of the Access Token.

The Api URL can be changed for GitHub Enterprise Users which run them on their own domain.

Require / Import

// ES6
import { GitHub } from 'github-graphql-api';
import GithubGraphQLApi from 'github-graphql-api';
// CommonJs
const { Github } = require('github-graphql-api');
const GithubGraphQLApi = require('github-graphql-api').default;

Changelog

See history for more details.

• 1.0.0 2018-07-01 Initial release