lastweek

Given a username and/or GitHub access token, this tool will provide a report of the work done by the user last week. This can be useful for sharing with your coworkers, or just for your own notes.

Installing / Quick Start

From released binary

Navigate to tags and find a recent release. Binaries are published for various linux and mac distributions.

export GITHUB_TOKEN=your-token
lastweek

From go install

go install github.com/crwilcox/lastweek@latest

export GITHUB_TOKEN=your-token
lastweek

Note: This assumes ~/go/bin (or wherever go binaries are installed on your system) is on your path. lastweek is likely installed at ~/go/bin/lastweek

Token Scopes

While a GitHub token isn't required, it will restrict the reporting to public activity. It also could result in issues due to GitHub rate limiting. The token created requires the repo scope to access private repositories.

Usage

Token and User can be provided via environment variables. Note, User can be inferred from your GITHUB_TOKEN. Setting a token is recommended as it avoids rate limiting issue as well as gives information about private repository activity.

export GITHUB_USERNAME=your-username
export GITHUB_TOKEN=your-token

They can also be provided by flag, along with other settings.

Usage of lastweek:
  -end_date string
        The end date in ISO layout. E.g. YYYY-MM-DD
  -start_date string
        The start date in ISO layout. E.g. YYYY-MM-DD
  -start_of_week string
        The first day of your snippet week (default "Saturday")
  -token string
        Your GitHub access token.
  -user string
        Your GitHub username.
  -weeks_back int
        The number of weeks ago to see snippets for (default 1)

Acknowledgments

I have written various versions of this tool. This most recent rewrite though was influenced by a version I stumbled on by RJPercival that had went out of date (though had some ideas I liked) as well as another by SethVargo which had a way of formatting the output I preferred to my previous ways. In combining these various elements of each along with elements of previous iterations of my own, I created lastweek.