Thompson

Purpose

Thompson sets up github webhooks and listens for events on the webhooks, all he needs is a github token, an external address which he listens on, and a list of repos to attach his cane to.

Special thanks to:

• pksunkara
• nlf

Installation

$ npm install thompson --save

Usage

###programmatic:

var Thompson = require('thompson');

var options = {
  "url": "[external url you want webhooks to attach to]",
  "token": "[github api token]",
  "secret": "[secret to ensure you dont get anyone else pushing spurious events]",
  "host": "0.0.0.0",
  "events": ["push"]
}

var thompson = new Thompson(options);

//first attach to the webhook event, this is when we receive an event from github
thompson.on('webhook-event', function (message) {
  console.log('have message yay!');
    //message in format:
  message_format = {
    event:message.event,//"[push/pull_request]"
    name:message.name,//"[name of repo, sans owner]"
    owner:message.owner,//"{owner name}"
    branch:message.branch,// "master! ..master!"
    detail:message.detail//"[push message raw]"
  };
});

//add some repos you want to watch, addRepo is synchronous, we just pushing them to the collection:

thompson
  //add one
  .addRepo({
    name: repo,
    events:['push']
  })

thompson
  //and/or many
  .addRepo([
    {
      name: repo,
      events:['push']
    },{
      name: repo,
      events:['push']
    }
  ])

//then listen for webhook callbacks, this call will create webhooks if the dont already exist, and receive a test message if they are being newly created
thompson.listen()

.then(function(){
  console.log('voila!!');
})
.catch(function(e){
   console.log('oh dear, not spiffing at all...');
})

###CLI: just for testing purposes ATM, as we cannot attach events to actual external scripts yet, just prints out incoming events related to webhooks thompson has created ###Global:

> npm install thompson -g
> thompson  -r [repo owner]/[repo name] -t [github api token] -s [github webhooks secret] -u [url, not https yet] -e [events comma separated, ie:push,pull_request]

###Local:

> git clone https://github.com/happner/thompson.git
> cd thompson
> nodejs bin/thompson -r [repo owner]/[repo name] -t [github api token] -s [github webhooks secret] -u [url, not https yet] -e [events comma separated, ie:push,pull_request]

License

MIT © Happner