https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos

Microservice to get the latest public GitHub repos from a user
https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos

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Microservice to get the latest public GitHub repos from a user

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos
• Owner: sindresorhus
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-09-21T19:09:46.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-30T19:04:10.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-22T18:21:47.829Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: api-server, github, graphql, javascript, microservice, nodejs, repository
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: gh-latest-repos-sindresorhus.vercel.app
• Size: 325 KB
• Stars: 150
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 21
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: license

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README

        
# gh-latest-repos

> Microservice to get the latest public GitHub repos from a user

I currently use this on [my website](https://sindresorhus.com/#projects).

It returns the latest repos along with some metadata. The result is cached for a day.

[Example response](example-response.json)

## Usage

### With [`vercel`](https://vercel.com)

```sh

git clone https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos.git

vercel gh-latest-repos --env GITHUB_TOKEN=xxx --env GITHUB_USERNAME=xxx --env ACCESS_ALLOW_ORIGIN=xxx --env MAX_REPOS=xxx

```

### Manual

To deploy on your own hosting provider, check out [11e01ac](https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos/commit/11e01acb0d0fd40d69c03155e9862b4cdc71b6f2), set the below environment variables, and start it with `npm start`.

## Environment variables

Define the following environment variables:

- `GITHUB_TOKEN` - [Personal access token.](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?description=gh-latest-repos)

- `GITHUB_USERNAME` - The username you like to get repos from.

- `ACCESS_ALLOW_ORIGIN` - The URL of your website or `*` if you want to allow any origin (not recommended), for the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header.

- `MAX_REPOS` - The number of repos returned. Optional. Defaults to 6.