How to get latest commit date - Github API
Question
I'm currently writing a small database of git reps and im wondering how i would go ahead and get the date of the latest commit if i have the rep listed in my database.
I've never worked with the github API and im having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around it.
If anyone could help me figure it out i'd much appreciate it. PHP or JS prefereably as all the examples ive found has been in ruby.
3 answers
solution1
4 2017-12-08 17:11:43
Old question but I wanted to point out (at least with api v3) you could use the branches api to get the latest commit date for a particular branch. I assume in your case you're interested in master.
Which would look like:
https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/branches/master
solution2
3 ACCPTED 2015-04-24 11:27:34
If you were to use PHP like your example , I'd use cURL instead of file_get_contents , as you'd need to configure allow-url-fopen .
GitHub also requires you to send a user-agent in the header: https://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required
For example, your PHP code would look like;
$objCurl = curl_init();
//The repo we want to get
curl_setopt($objCurl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.github.com/repos/google/blueprint/commits");
//To comply with https://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required
curl_setopt($objCurl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "StackOverflow-29845346");
//Skip verification (kinda insecure)
curl_setopt($objCurl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
//Get the response
$response = curl_exec($objCurl);
print_r( json_decode($response, true) );
Note: You will be able to continue using file_get_contents and send the user-agent header. See this answer
solution3
1 2019-03-23 14:31:15
I wanted to answer this exact question so I made a very small demo of how to get the date of the latest commit.
Output:
ta-dachi
master
2019-03-21T14:50:22Z <----- What you want
b80126c3ea900cd7c92729e652b2e8214ff014d8
https://github.com/ta-dachi/eatsleepcode.tech/tree/master
index.html
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
<title>React Local</title>
<script
type="application/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/react@16.0.0/umd/react.production.min.js"
></script>
<script
type="application/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16.0.0/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"
></script>
<script
type="application/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js"
></script>
<script
type="application/javascript"
src="https://unpkg.com/whatwg-fetch@3.0.0/dist/fetch.umd.js"
></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="text/jsx" src="index.jsx"></script>
</body>
index.jsx
/**
* See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#get-branch
*
* Example Github api request:
* https://api.github.com/repos/ta-dachi/eatsleepcode.tech/branches/master
*/
class LatestCommitComponent extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
author: "",
branch: "",
date: "",
sha: "",
link: ""
};
}
componentDidMount() {
// Replace this with your own repo
// https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/branches/master
fetch(
"https://api.github.com/repos/ta-dachi/eatsleepcode.tech/branches/master"
)
.then(response => {
response.json().then(json => {
console.log(json);
this.setState({
author: json.commit.author.login,
branch: json.name,
date: json.commit.commit.author.date,
sha: json.commit.sha,
link: json._links.html
});
});
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error);
});
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<div>{this.state.author}</div>
<div>{this.state.branch}</div>
<div>{this.state.date}</div>
<div>{this.state.sha}</div>
<div>{this.state.link}</div>
</div>
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<LatestCommitComponent />, document.getElementById("root"));
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