Awesome

github-interact-cli lets you use GitHub right inside your terminal.

👉 FEATURES

• 📦 Create a new repo
• ♻️ Delete your existing repo
• 🚀 Get all public repos of any GitHub User
• ⚠️ Open issue in any repo.
• ✉️ Get public email of any GitHub user
• ⭐️ Get stargazers of any GitHub repo

🎩 INSTALLATION

Install the CLI globally. If you are windows user, run your command prompt/terminal as administrator. If you are macOS user, add sudo before the following command.

npm i -g github-interact-cli

🏗 SETUP

Type the following in the terminal to run the CLI.

github

CLI will start running. It will ask you to add a Personal Access Token & your GitHub Username. If you don't know what Personal Access Token is & how to create one, check this awesome guide by GitHub.

！Note: Be sure to give the token repo, admin:repo_hook & delete repo scopes .

Once you are done, exit the CLI so that configurations can be saved & used again.

！ Note: This is one time thing. You will not have to do it again every time you run the CLI.

👌 Shortcuts

You can now use shortcuts to interact with the CLI. Just type any of the following in the terminal & hit <kbd>Enter</kbd>

• New Repo

github-new

• Delete Repo

github-delete

• Get All Public Repo

github-get

• Open Issue

github-issue

• Get Email

github-email

• Get Stars

github-stars

📦 Create New Repo

Write the following in the terminal to run the CLI again.

github

You will get this menu. 🔥

Enter <kbd>1</kbd> to Create a GitHub Repo. Then answer the next questions.

Taa daa! The repo has been created. You can check it! 🥂

♻️ Delete your Existing Repo

Type the following in the terminal to run the CLI.

github

You will get this menu. 🔥

Enter <kbd>2</kbd> to Create a GitHub Repo. Then enter the name of the repo you want to delete.

Taa daa! The repo has been deleted. 🙌🏻

! Note: Be sure to give your personal access token delete repo scope. If you don't know how to edit your current token, follow these steps.

• Open your GitHub account settings
• Select Developer settings from the left sidebar
• Click on Personal access tokens
• You will see a list of personal access tokens. Select the token you created earlier for github-interact-cli.
• Scroll down the scope list and select delete_repo
• Then scroll at the bottom & select Update token

🚀 Get All Repos

Type the following in the terminal to run the CLI.

github

You will get this menu. 🔥

Enter <kbd>3</kbd> to get all GitHub Public Repos of the any GitHub user. Next enter the username of the GitHub user you want to see the repos of.

Press <kbd>Enter</kbd>. And there you have it, folks! 🔥

⚠️ Open Issue

Type the following in the terminal to run the CLI.

github

You will get this menu. 🔥

Enter <kbd>4</kbd> to Create a GitHub Issue. Then answer the next questions.

Click here to check the issue I just created in the screenshot.

✉️ Get Public Email

Type the following in the terminal to run the CLI.

github

You will get this menu. 🔥

Enter <kbd>5</kbd> to get public email of the GitHub user. Then enter the username of the GitHub user.

⭐️Get Stargazers

Type the following in the terminal to run the CLI.

github

You will get this menu. 🔥

Enter <kbd>6</kbd> to get total number of stargazers of any GitHub repos. Then answer the next questions.

🚀 FEATURE REQUEST

Use the Issues section if you want to request any feature or report an issue.

🙌🏻 PROPS

• Header Image by Iqra Fatima

👨🏻‍💻 AUTHOR

🙋🏻‍♂️ Hola! I am Saad, an undergrad Computer Science student. I developed this CLI to automate the repetitive ridiculous amount of things we have to do in GitHub. You can follow me at

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⚡️ Other Projects

I have curated a detailed list of all the open-source projects I have authored. Do take out a moment and take a look.

🔑 LICENSE

• MIT