whatsnew

Check what's new in your GitHub repos — straight from your terminal.

whatsnew is a lightweight CLI tool that shows you today's commits across all your repositories or recent activity in a specific repo. No database, no daemon — just the GitHub API and your terminal.

Install

npm install -g whatsnew

Or run directly:

npx whatsnew

Setup

Before using, configure your GitHub username:

whatsnew setup

Optionally add a GitHub personal access token for private repo access and higher API rate limits. No scopes needed for public repos.

Usage

whatsnew today           Show today's commits across all your repos
whatsnew repo <name>     Show recent activity (last 7 days) for a repo
whatsnew setup            Configure your GitHub username and token
whatsnew config           Show current configuration
whatsnew help             Show this help message

Examples

# What did I commit today?
whatsnew today

# What's happening in a specific repo?
whatsnew repo facebook/react

# Short name works too (uses configured username)
whatsnew repo my-project

Requirements

• Node.js 18+

How it works

• Uses the GitHub REST API v3 (built-in https module — zero npm dependencies at runtime).
• Configuration is stored in ~/.whatsnewrc.
• All requests include a proper User-Agent header and support token authentication.

Publish to npm

npm login
npm publish

License

MIT