bitinn / request.js

Send parameterized requests to GitHub’s APIs with sensible defaults in browsers and Node

request.js

Send parameterized requests to GitHub’s APIs with sensible defaults in browsers and Node

@octokit/request is a request library for browsers & node that makes it easier to interact with GitHub’s REST API and GitHub’s GraphQL API.

It uses @octokit/endpoint to parse the passed options and sends the request using fetch (node-fetch in Node).

• Usage
  • Node
  • Browser
  • REST API example
  • GraphQL example
  • Alternative: pass method & url as part of options
• octokitRequest()
• octokitRequest.defaults()
• octokitRequest.endpoint
• Special cases
  • The data parameter – set request body directly
  • Set parameters for both the URL/query and the request body
• LICENSE

Usage

Node

Install with npm install @octokit/request.

const octokitRequest = require('@octokit/request')

Browser

1. Download octokit-request.min.js from the latest release: https://github.com/octokit/request.js/releases

2. Load it as script into your web application:

   <script src="request-rest.min.js"></script>

3. The octokitRequest is now available

REST API example

// Following GitHub docs formatting:
// https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-organization-repositories
const result = await octokitRequest('GET /orgs/:org/repos', {
  headers: {
    authorization: 'token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001'
  },
  org: 'octokit',
  type: 'private'
})

console.log(`${result.data.length} repos found.`)

GraphQL example

const result = await octokitRequest('POST /graphql', {
  headers: {
    authorization: 'token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001'
  },
  query: `query ($login: String!) {
    organization(login: $login) {
      repositories(privacy: PRIVATE) {
        totalCount
      }
    }
  }`,
  variables: {
    login: 'octokit'
  }
})

Alternative: pass method & url as part of options

Alternatively, pass in a method and a url

const result = await octokitRequest({
  method: 'GET',
  url: '/orgs/:org/repos',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001'
  },
  org: 'octokit',
  type: 'private'
})

octokitRequest()

octokitRequest(route, options) or octokitRequest(options).

Options

name	type	description
route	String	If route is set it has to be a string consisting of the request method and URL, e.g. GET /orgs/:org
options.baseUrl	String	Required. Any supported http verb, case insensitive. Defaults to https://api.github.com.
options.headers	Object	Custom headers. Passed headers are merged with defaults: headers['user-agent'] defaults to octokit-rest.js/1.2.3 (where 1.2.3 is the released version). headers['accept'] defaults to application/vnd.github.v3+json.
options.method	String	Required. Any supported http verb, case insensitive. Defaults to Get.
options.url	String	Required. A path or full URL which may contain :variable or {variable} placeholders, e.g. /orgs/:org/repos. The url is parsed using url-template.
options.data	Any	Set request body directly instead of setting it to JSON based on additional parameters. See "The `data` parameter" below.
options.request	Object	Pass node-fetch extensions options, such as agent or timeout. All other `options.request.*` keys will be ignored.

All other options will passed depending on the method and url options.

1. If the option key is a placeholder in the url, it will be used as replacement. For example, if the passed options are {url: '/orgs/:org/repos', org: 'foo'} the returned options.url is https://api.github.com/orgs/foo/repos
2. If the method is GET or HEAD, the option is passed as query parameter
3. Otherwise the parameter is passed in the request body as JSON key.

Result

octokitRequest returns a promise and resolves with 3 keys

key	type	description
headers	Object	All response headers
code	Integer	Response status code
data	Any	The response body as returned from server. If the response is JSON then it will be parsed into an object

octokitRequest.defaults()

Override or set default options. Example:

const myOctokitRequest = require('@octokit/request').defaults({
  baseUrl: 'https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3',
  headers: {
    'user-agent': 'myApp/1.2.3',
    authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`
  },
  org: 'my-project',
  per_page: 100
})

myOctokitRequest(`GET /orgs/:org/repos`)

You can call .defaults() again on the returned method, the defaults will cascade.

const myProjectRequest = octokitRequest.defaults({
  baseUrl: 'https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3',
  headers: {
    'user-agent': 'myApp/1.2.3'
  },
  org: 'my-project'
})
const myProjectRequestWithAuth = myProjectRequest.defaults({
  headers: {
    authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`
  }
})

myProjectRequest now defaults the baseUrl, headers['user-agent'], org and headers['authorization'] on top of headers['accept'] that is set by the global default.

octokitRequest.endpoint

See https://github.com/octokit/endpoint.js. Example

const options = octokitRequest.endpoint('GET /orgs/:org/repos', {
  org: 'my-project',
  type: 'private'
})

// {
//   method: 'GET',
//   url: 'https://api.github.com/orgs/my-project/repos?type=private',
//   headers: {
//     accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
//     authorization: 'token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001',
//     'user-agent': 'octokit/endpoint.js v1.2.3'
//   }
// }

All of the @octokit/endpoint API can be used:

• ocotkitRequest.endpoint()
• ocotkitRequest.endpoint.defaults()
• ocotkitRequest.endpoint.merge()
• ocotkitRequest.endpoint.parse()

Special cases

The data parameter – set request body directly

Some endpoints such as Render a Markdown document in raw mode don’t have parameters that are sent as request body keys, instead the request body needs to be set directly. In these cases, set the data parameter.

const options = endpoint('POST /markdown/raw', {
  data: 'Hello world github/linguist#1 **cool**, and #1!',
  headers: {
    accept: 'text/html;charset=utf-8',
    'content-type': 'text/plain'
  }
})

// options is
// {
//   method: 'post',
//   url: 'https://api.github.com/markdown/raw',
//   headers: {
//     accept: 'text/html;charset=utf-8',
//     'content-type': 'text/plain',
//     'user-agent': userAgent
//   },
//   body: 'Hello world github/linguist#1 **cool**, and #1!'
// }

Set parameters for both the URL/query and the request body

There are API endpoints that accept both query parameters as well as a body. In that case you need to add the query parameters as templates to options.url, as defined in the RFC 6570 URI Template specification.

Example

octokitRequest('POST https://uploads.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/releases/1/assets{?name,label}', {
  name: 'example.zip',
  label: 'short description',
  headers: {
    'content-type': 'text/plain',
    'content-length': 14,
    authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`
  },
  data: 'Hello, world!'
})

LICENSE

MIT