Began project 'github-cli'

One thing that always bothered me with GitHub when using the terminal was the lack of a CLI utility to interact with it. You always have to open a browser, head to the GitHub page and perform the action that you need to.

On macOS, Xcode 9 does some tricks and integrate the IDE with Github to a certain level. I’d like to have something similar, but at the command line. This also looked like a perfect opportunity to sharp my skills on the Go language, or at least get the rust off of it.

The github-cli utility was designed following the pattern below:

github-cli <verb> <options>...

I implemented three verbs, that cover most of my basic needs. They are login, repo and org. Their related options are tight to the verb’s original function, as well as its parameters.

This project also makes github usefull for automation scripts. It makes possible to use a lot of information that would not be easily available by other means to an automation script. The main idea of the project is to provide things like github-cli repo to get a list of repositories for the logged user. Or github-cli org to retrieve the current logged user’s organizations. Those verbs (‘repos’ and ‘orgs’) have options to filter the possible results

I’m planning to add some more options for different filters of the returned values. Other verbs are under review too, like adding something as github-cli issues to get opened issues, althought it’s not the priority right now. I am really open to new ideas and possibilities, so I’d like to hear your comments to know what else would be helpful to you, heavy CLI users, to add to this tool.

The project is available at Github

That’s the main reason behind this small project. To provide a command line tool that directly interacts with the GitHub REST API to provide some services directly on the command line.