Ebook: Building tools with GitHub: customize your workflow

This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chapter is a compelling story that walks you through the tradeoffs and considerations for building applications on top of various GitHub technologies.;Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Why APIs and Why the GitHub API?; Structure of This Book; Who You Are; What You Will Learn; GitHub "First Class" Languages; Operating System Prerequisites; Who This Book Is Not For; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; O'Reilly Safari; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Unclad GitHub API; cURL; Breadcrumbs to Successive API Paths; The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Format; Parsing JSON from the Command Line; Debugging Switches for cURL; Important Headers; Following a Hypermedia API; Authentication