zubaer-githubapi/githubapi.js

Get a list of repository of a github user

//include http module
https = require("https");
	function getRepos(username, callback) {
	var options = {
		host: "api.github.com",
		path: "/users/"+username+"/repos",
		method: "GET",
		headers: {"user-agent": "zubaer-ahammed"}
	};

	var request = https.request(options, function(response) {
		var body = '';
		response.on("data", function(chunk) {
			body +=chunk.toString('utf-8');
		});
		response.on("end", function() {
			var repos = [];
			json = JSON.parse(body);
			json.forEach(function(repo){
				repos.push({
					name: repo.name,
					description: repo.description
				});
			});
			callback(repos);
		})
	});
	request.end();
}

module.exports.getRepos = getRepos;