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-# Maintainers wanted
-[Apply within](https://github.com/github-tools/github/issues/539)
-
-# Github.js
-
-[][npm-package]
-[][npm-package]
-[][gitter]
-[][travis-ci]
-[][codecov]
-
-`Github.js` provides a minimal higher-level wrapper around Github's API.
-
-## Usage
-
-```javascript
-/*
- Data can be retrieved from the API either using callbacks (as in versions < 1.0)
- or using a new promise-based API. The promise-based API returns the raw Axios
- request promise.
- */
-import GitHub from 'github-api';
-
-// unauthenticated client
-const gh = new GitHub();
-let gist = gh.getGist(); // not a gist yet
-gist.create({
- public: true,
- description: 'My first gist',
- files: {
- "file1.txt": {
- content: "Aren't gists great!"
- }
- }
-}).then(function({data}) {
- // Promises!
- let createdGist = data;
- return gist.read();
-}).then(function({data}) {
- let retrievedGist = data;
- // do interesting things
-});
-```
-
-```javascript
-var GitHub = require('github-api');
-
-// basic auth
-var gh = new GitHub({
- username: 'FOO',
- password: 'NotFoo'
- /* also acceptable:
- token: 'MY_OAUTH_TOKEN'
- */
-});
-
-var me = gh.getUser(); // no user specified defaults to the user for whom credentials were provided
-me.listNotifications(function(err, notifications) {
- // do some stuff
-});
-
-var clayreimann = gh.getUser('clayreimann');
-clayreimann.listStarredRepos(function(err, repos) {
- // look at all the starred repos!
-});
-```
-
-## API Documentation
-
-[API documentation][docs] is hosted on github pages, and is generated from JSDoc; any contributions
-should include updated JSDoc.
-
-## Installation
-`Github.js` is available from `npm` or [unpkg][unpkg].
-
-```shell
-npm install github-api
-```
-
-```html
-
-
-
-
-
-```
-
-## Compatibility
-`Github.js` is tested on node's LTS and current versions.
-
-[codecov]: https://codecov.io/github/github-tools/github?branch=master
-[docs]: http://github-tools.github.io/github/
-[gitter]: https://gitter.im/github-tools/github
-[npm-package]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/github-api/
-[unpkg]: https://unpkg.com/github-api/
-[travis-ci]: https://travis-ci.org/github-tools/github
-
-## Contributing
-
-We welcome contributions of all types! This section will guide you through setting up your development environment.
-
-### Setup
-
-1. [Install Node](https://nodejs.org/en/) version 8,10 or 11. It can often help to use a Node version switcher such as [NVM](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm).
-2. Fork this repo to your GitHub account.
-3. Clone the fork to your development machine (`git clone https://github.com/{YOUR_USERNAME}/github`).
-4. From the root of the cloned repo, run `npm install`.
-5. Email jaredrewerts@gmail.com with the subject **GitHub API - Personal Access Token Request**
-
-A personal access token for our test user, @github-tools-test, will be generated for you.
-
-6. Set the environment variable `GHTOOLS_USER` to `github-tools-test`.
-
-`export GHTOOLS_USER=github-tools-test`
-
-7. Set the environment variable `GHTOOLS_PASSWORD` to the personal access token that was generated for you.
-
-`export GHTOOLS_PASSWORD={YOUR_PAT}`
-
-**NOTE** Windows users can use [this guide](http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-set-an-environment-variable-in-windows-command-line-and-registry/) to learn about setting environment variables on Windows.
-
-### Tests
-
-The main way we write code for `github-api` is using test-driven development. We use Mocha to run our tests. Given that the bulk of this library is just interacting with GitHub's API, nearly all of our tests are integration tests.
-
-To run the test suite, run `npm run test`.
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