Kata to retrieve someones Github Gist as a shell script.
Retrieves a Github users latest gists and outputs a JSON with the URL to the Gist and the time of the post.
new-gists username [/path/to/timestamp-file] [--watch]
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username: (Required) The Github username of the person whose gists should be checked.
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timestamp-file: (Optional) A timestamp file that stores the last run's value. This enables to retrieve the new gists' list. The default file is ~/.new-gists
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--watch: (Optional) Runs the script as a “daemon”, executes the Gist query in every 300 seconds (5 minutes) by default.
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GITHUB_API_URL: The Github API endpoint URL. This is used by the test scripts to set a stub. Default value:
https://api.github.com. -
DEFAULT_DATE_FROM: If the script runs for the first time, this is the date the script lists the gist from. Default:
20180101T00:00:00Z. Use a second level granularity ISO-8601 date format. -
DEFAULT_WATCH_PERIOD: The seconds after the script automatically re-runs in
--watchmode. Default value:300.
- Bash >= 4.x
- cURL >= 7.x.x
- jq >= 1.5
Go to the tests directory, and run the test.sh to execute the integration tests.
Don't worry, it runs against fixtures (stubs) and not against the Github API.