rycus86/github-proxy repository overview

⁠GitHub Proxy

A simple Python Flask⁠ REST server to proxy calls to GitHub.

⁠Usage

The GitHub API is implemented using agithub⁠ and supports authenticated calls (with better rate limiting) using these environment variables:

• GITHUB_USERNAME: a valid GitHub username
• GITHUB_PASSWORD: password for the same GitHub account
• GITHUB_TOKEN: alternatively an authenticated GitHub token can be used instead of username and password

To get a reference to the ApiClient class use something like:

api = ApiClient(username=os.environ.get('GITHUB_USERNAME'),
                password=os.environ.get('GITHUB_PASSWORD'),
                token=os.environ.get('GITHUB_TOKEN'))

The api.ApiClient class wraps endpoints with the following methods:

• list_repos(username): returns a list of all repositories for the GitHub user identified by username - regardless of pagination (e.g. from all pages)
• get_readme_html(owner, repository): returns the HTML README of the owner/repository GitHub repository
• get_readme_raw(owner, repository): returns the raw plain text README of the owner/repository GitHub repository
• get_commit_stats(owner, repository): returns a dictionary containing the total number of commits in the owner/repository GitHub repository plus the author, date and message of the last commit

The app module is responsible for the REST presentation layer exposing JSON endpoints. The exposed endpoints are cached using Flask-Cache⁠.

Configuration options:

• HTTP_HOST: the host (interface) for Flask to bind to (default: 127.0.0.1)
• HTTP_PORT: the port to bind to (default: 5000)
• CORS_ORIGINS: comma separated list of origins to allow cross-domain GET requests from (default: http://localhost:?.*)

To allow connections from other hosts apart from localhost set the HTTP_PORT environment variable to 0.0.0.0 or as appropriate.

List of endpoints:

• /repos/<username>: lists the repositories of the <username> GitHub user
  This will be a list of objects with a reduced set of properties from ApiClient.list_repos(<username>)
• /repos/<username>/<repository>/readme or
  /repos/<username>/<repository>/readme/html: an HTML endpoint returning the rendered README markup for the <username>/<repository> GitHub repository
• /repos/<username>/<repository>/readme/raw: an plain text endpoint returning the raw README contents for the <username>/<repository> GitHub repository
• /repos/<username>/<repository>/commit-stats: returns the commit statistics for the <username>/<repository> GitHub repository
  The object is the same as the return value of ApiClient.get_commit_stats(owner, repository)

⁠Docker

The web application is built as a Docker image too based on Alpine Linux for 3 architectures with the following tags:

• latest: for x86 hosts
  
• armhf: for 32-bits ARM hosts
  
• aarch64: for 64-bits ARM hosts
  

latest is auto-built on Docker Hub⁠ while the ARM builds are uploaded from Travis⁠.

To run it:

docker run -d --name="github-proxy" -p 5000:5000           \
  -e GITHUB_USERNAME='user' -e GITHUB_PASSWORD='pass'      \
  -e CORS_ORIGINS='http://site.example.com,*.website.com'  \
  rycus86/github-proxy:latest

Or with docker-compose (for a Raspberry Pi for example):

version: '2'
services:

  github-proxy:
    image: rycus86/github-proxy:armhf
    read_only: true
    expose:
      - "5000"
    restart: always
    environment:
      - HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0
    env_file:
      - github-secrets.env

This way you can keep the secrets in the env_file instead of passing them to the Docker client from the command line.