JeanPaul1789 / random_repo

A simple script to get a random repo from github

random_repo

How to use it ?

• First you need to create an oauth app here and a discord webhook
• When you did it open the script random_repo.sh and put in oauthid your oauth id and oauthsecret your oauth app scret

it should look like this

#!/bin/bash

authid="yourid"
authsecret="yoursecret"
webhook_url="your discord webhook url"

...

If you want a random repository every hour do this:

$ crontab -e

0 * * * * path_to_the_script/random_repo.sh >> .repo_log.txt

• Now you need to install dependencies:
  • Ubuntu and other apt:

    $sudo apt-get install jq

  • Fedora and other dnf:

    $sudo dnf install jq

  • Arch and other pacman/yay:

    $sudo pacman -Syu jq
    or
    $sudo yay jq

  • If your distrib is'nt here go check this link

The goal of the oauth it's not to be rate limit after 5 minutes of utilisations. You have 60 requests per hour without oauth and with oauth connection you have 5,000 requests (source)

Now just launch the script and voila !

(sometimes it takes a little while, that nothing, probably a thing called optimisation but I don't know how it works)

Why did I did this script ? and why in bash and not other language ? I don't know a damn thing about it, but leave me in my madness