How to upload file on GitHub using the module ?

[damienvanrobaeys]

The module is pretty awesome.
Just starting some tests with it but don't find how to upload file on github ?
I can create a readme using the autoinit parameter.
For now I'm searching how to add my own content into this readme then upload for instance an exe or script in the repository

[HowardWolosky]

Glad you like the module! Thanks for the feedback.
How did you come to find out about it?

For creating files, we need to use the Contents API.

@Shazwazza just recently added the ability to get contents. Their plan was to add the create/update API next. Until that is done, the workaround would be to add new content via git API's instead.

It looks like #150 is tracking the API's getting done.

[damienvanrobaeys]

Thanks for the quick answer.
Actually as you may know the Technet gallery will soon retire, so I did a script to backup all contributions locally.
http://www.systanddeploy.com/2020/04/backup-all-your-technet-gallery.html

Now my next step is to backup and migrate to Github.
I can create the readme using the -AutoInit parameter.
Is it possible to add my mardown content to this file ? I saw the convertfrommardown parameter.

[HowardWolosky]

There's no way to change the content as part of that API.
That's the "create a repository for the authenticated user" API, which has an auto_init option (transposed as an -AutoInit switch) which will create an initial commit with an empty README.

What you're looking for is the create/update contents API which hasn't been added yet, as mentioned.

The workaround would be to make the desired changes, and then just use the normal git commands to push the changes up:

git add *
git commit -m "Updating readme"
git push

[damienvanrobaeys]

Thanks for answer one more time :-)
I will continue to test the module and will blog about it.
Really awesome module, easy to use and well documented.

[HowardWolosky]

Thanks for the feedback!

[damienvanrobaeys]

I have found how to upload my file.

$MyFile = @"
{
"message": "my commit message",
"committer": {
"name": "Damien",
"email": "[email protected]"
},
"content": "bW9uIGZpY2hpZXI="
}
"@

Invoke-GHRestMethod -UriFragment "https://api.github.com/repos/damienvanrobaeys/myrepo/contents/myfile.txt" -Method PUT -Body $MyFile

[damienvanrobaeys]

I complete my upload script. I proceed as below:

1. • Select a file
2. • Encode it to base 64
3. • Create a json for this one
4. • Upload the selected file on the selected repo

The script

$Get_Selected_File = Read-Host "Type the path of the file to upload on your repo"
$Get_File_Name = (Get-ChildItem $Get_Selected_File).name
$File_Content = get-content $Get_Selected_File
$File_Content_Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($File_Content)
$Encoded_File = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($File_Content_Bytes)

$MyFile_JSON = @"
{
"message": "",
"content": "$Encoded_File"
}
"@
Invoke-GHRestMethod -UriFragment "https://api.github.com/repos/$OwnerName/$RepositoryName/contents/$Get_File_Name" -Method PUT -Body $MyFile_JSON

If you're interested I can create a function like in your module for this part and submit it to you.

[damienvanrobaeysdev]

I use another way to encode to base 64 because the previous one does not encode properly file and not encode exe, zip... correctly
Now i'm able to encode zip, txt, pdf, ps1, vbs, rar, exe ... and upload them on github.

$Get_Selected_File = Read-Host "Type the path of the file to upload on your repo"
$Get_File_Name = (Get-ChildItem $Get_Selected_File).name
$Encoded_File = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$Get_Selected_File"));

$MyFile_JSON = @"
{
"message": "",
"content": "$Encoded_File"
}
"@
Invoke-GHRestMethod -UriFragment "https://api.github.com/repos/$OwnerName/$RepositoryName/contents/$Get_File_Name" -Method PUT -Body $MyFile_JSON