How to Use the GitHub API in Go (go-github)

Use the github.com/google/go-github/v62/github library to authenticate and call GitHub API endpoints.

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/google/go-github/v62/github"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	client := github.NewClient(nil)
	
	user, _, err := client.Users.Get(ctx, "")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(user.GetLogin())
}

Install the library with go get github.com/google/go-github/v62/github and replace nil with oauth2.NewClient(ctx, token) for private repositories.

The GitHub API in Go (go-github) is a standard library that lets your code talk to GitHub's servers to read or change data like issues and repositories. You use it when you need to automate tasks on GitHub, such as creating a new issue or fetching a list of users. Think of it as a remote control for your GitHub account that you can program.