knplabs / github-api
GitHub API v3 client
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Requires
- php: ^7.2.5 || ^8.0
- ext-json: *
- php-http/cache-plugin: ^1.7.1|^2.0
- php-http/client-common: ^2.3
- php-http/discovery: ^1.12
- php-http/httplug: ^2.2
- php-http/multipart-stream-builder: ^1.1.2
- psr/cache: ^1.0|^2.0|^3.0
- psr/http-client-implementation: ^1.0
- psr/http-factory-implementation: ^1.0
- psr/http-message: ^1.0|^2.0
- symfony/deprecation-contracts: ^2.2|^3.0
- symfony/polyfill-php80: ^1.17
Requires (Dev)
- guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^7.2
- guzzlehttp/psr7: ^2.7
- http-interop/http-factory-guzzle: ^1.0
- php-http/mock-client: ^1.4.1
- phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.0.5
- phpstan/phpstan: ^0.12.57
- phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^0.12.5
- phpunit/phpunit: ^8.5 || ^9.4
- symfony/cache: ^5.1.8
- symfony/phpunit-bridge: ^5.2
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Last update: 2026-05-16 03:20:01 UTC
README
A simple Object Oriented wrapper for GitHub API, written with PHP.
Uses GitHub API v3 & supports GitHub API v4. The object API (v3) is very similar to the RESTful API.
Features
- Light and fast thanks to lazy loading of API classes
- Extensively tested and documented
Requirements
- PHP >= 7.2
- A PSR-17 implementation
- A PSR-18 implementation
Quick install
Via Composer.
This command will get you up and running quickly with a Guzzle HTTP client.
composer require knplabs/github-api:^3.0 guzzlehttp/guzzle:^7.0.1 http-interop/http-factory-guzzle:^1.0
Advanced install
We are decoupled from any HTTP messaging client with help by HTTPlug.
Using a different http client
composer require knplabs/github-api:^3.0 symfony/http-client nyholm/psr7
To set up the Github client with this HTTP client
use Github\Client; use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttplugClient; $client = Client::createWithHttpClient(new HttplugClient());
Read more about using different clients in our docs.
Framework integrations
Laravel
To integrate this library in laravel Graham Campbell created graham-campbell/github. See the installation instructions to get started in laravel.
Basic usage of php-github-api client
<?php // This file is generated by Composer require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; $client = new \Github\Client(); $repositories = $client->api('user')->repositories('ornicar');
From $client object, you have access to all available GitHub api endpoints.
Cache usage
This example uses the PSR6 cache pool redis-adapter. See http://www.php-cache.com/ for alternatives.
<?php // This file is generated by Composer require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; use Cache\Adapter\Redis\RedisCachePool; $client = new \Redis(); $client->connect('127.0.0.1', 6379); // Create a PSR6 cache pool $pool = new RedisCachePool($client); $client = new \Github\Client(); $client->addCache($pool); // Do some request // Stop using cache $client->removeCache();
Using cache, the client will get cached responses if resources haven't changed since last time,
without reaching the X-Rate-Limit imposed by github.
Documentation
See the doc directory for more detailed documentation.
License
php-github-api is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
Maintainers
Please read this post first.
This library is maintained by the following people (alphabetically sorted) :
Contributors
- Thanks to Thibault Duplessis aka. ornicar for his first version of this library.
- Thanks to Joseph Bielawski aka. stloyd for his contributions and support.
- Thanks to noloh for his contribution on the Object API.
- Thanks to bshaffer for his contribution on the Repo API.
- Thanks to Rolf van de Krol for his countless contributions.
- Thanks to Nicolas Pastorino for his contribution on the Pull Request API.
- Thanks to Edoardo Rivello for his contribution on the Gists API.
- Thanks to Miguel Piedrafita for his contribution to the v4 & Apps API.
- Thanks to Emre DEGER for his contribution to the Actions API.
Thanks to GitHub for the high quality API and documentation.