google/go-github
Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API
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Where it stands
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3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 23 days ago, with 438 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a Go client library to interact with the GitHub REST API v3 for managing GitHub resources programmatically.
- Offers comprehensive coverage of GitHub API endpoints with idiomatic Go interfaces and built-in support for authentication and pagination.
- Use for automating repository management tasks such as creating, listing, and updating repositories and organizations in Go applications.
- Use for integrating GitHub webhook event handling and validation into Go-based CI/CD pipelines or monitoring tools.
- Use for building GitHub Apps or OAuth integrations in Go that require authenticated API access with token refresh and rate limit handling.
Should you depend on it?
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License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
go-github is a Go client library for accessing the GitHub API v3.
go-github tracks Go's version support policy supporting any minor version of the latest two major releases of Go and the go directive in go.mod reflects that. We do our best not to break older versions of Go if we don't have to, but we don't explicitly test older versions and as of Go 1.23 the go directive in go.mod declares a hard required minimum version of Go to use with this module and this must be greater than or equal to the go line of all dependencies so go-github will require the N-1 major release of Go by default.
If you're interested in using the GraphQL API v4, the recommended library is shurcooL/githubv4.
go-github is compatible with modern Go releases in module mode, with Go installed:
will resolve and add the package to the current development module, along with its dependencies.
Alternatively the same can be achieved if you use import in a package:
and run
go getwithout parameters.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+59 stars over 88 days across 8 snapshot days.
Forks
2.6K+93
Open issues
31+1
Compared with peers in API
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| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/claude-quickstarts | 20.5K | +733 | 75 | — |
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 33.9K | +719 | 75 | 36 days ago |
| N4darae/shrt | 2.6K | +529 | 8 | — |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.1K | +187 | 75 | 14 days ago |
| google/go-github | 11.3K | — | 64 | 23 days ago |
| BenedictKing/ccx | 4.0K | — | 32 | 117 days ago |
| Category median | 6.1K | +624 | 75 | — |
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