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[Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John, talking of visualizing pull requests to modules,  
we could setup a hook to your site from the github KiCad org
if you want:

https://developer.github.com/webhooks/  

Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Thursday, 8 de January de 2015 at 08:33, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:

> Nice John, very interesting job, It could be very cool if you could visualize  
> pull requests, etc..
>  
> Very good point about the unregistered API limit.  
>  
> The unregistered API limit is 60 req/hour. That should be enough
> for a normal user (used for listing the repos) If that’s found to be  
> exceeded we could cache that response into downloads.kicad-pcb.org (http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org)
> with a cron script + OAuth key if necessary.
>  
>  
> Miguel Ángel Ajo
>  
>  
> On Thursday, 8 de January de 2015 at 01:19, John Beard wrote:
>  
> > On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 23:38 +0100, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote:
> > Hi Jean Pierre, just an idea for your wizard work:
> > >  
> > > https://api.github.com/orgs/KiCad/repos
> > >  
> > >  
> > > You could save the need to work with the HTML viewer and pagination
> > > problems  
> > > using the above API endpoint, all the KiCad project repositories are
> > > listed into it
> > > in json format.
> > >  
> >  
> >  
> > The GitHub API is pretty comprehensive, as I found when writing my web
> > footprint viewer [1]. Full GH API access would allow us to be rather
> > more flexible with what we can do, for example:
> >  
> > * Only load footprints one at a time, rather than having to download  
> > and unzip the whole repo (note that the transfer can still be  
> > compressed!)
> > * View and use footprint history (although this can't easily be done  
> > in the case that a footprint has moved pretty repo, e.g. from  
> > Sockets.pretty to Sockets_Samtec.pretty)
> > * See changes made in all repos (currently quite hard to do, as you
> > have dozens of separate repos to consider)
> > * Contribute new footprints back to the GH repo in the form of a pull
> > request, without leaving KiCad.
> >  
> > Similar use could be made of any Git repo locally too (but not the pull
> > request aspect). Additionally, any remote git repo could also be cloned
> > and used from within KiCad. This does not require the GH API, just a Git
> > library, of which there are many (or shell out, even, bleh!)
> >  
> > just querying the URL Miguel provided would only count as a single API
> > access, and would not need an API token, unless the user kept on
> > refreshing the list somehow! But you would still get a complete list of
> > repos.
> >  
> > However, the API limits are pretty low when you don't have an API token.
> > The web viewer uses a private clientId and secret and then the user gets
> > their own API token via OAuth. This does require that the user has a
> > Github account.
> >  
> > We wouldn't be able to distribute the client secret for a KiCad GitHub
> > interface (it could be stolen and used fraudulently for other purposes).
> > We could:
> >  
> > * Make the user get their own access token (fairly easy via GitHub's
> > settings page
> > * Have an OAuth server somewhere which can arbitrate this process
> > (user still needs to log into GitHub via Kicad to get the access token,
> > however.
> >  
> > This would also allow to dispense with the webviewer WX requirement,
> > which adds another step to the arduous KiCad build process.
> >  
> > [1] http://libree.org/tool/kicad_viewer
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
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