Token can be read from env variable

Author: Axel Rindle

examples/token_from_env.js

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+'use strict';
+
+// register coffeescript
+require('coffeescript/register');
+
+const versionCheck = require('../lib/main');
+const options = {
+  repo: 'github-version-checker',
+  owner: 'axelrindle',
+  currentVersion: require('../package.json').version
+};
+
+versionCheck(options)
+  .then(update => {
+    if (update) { // update is null if there is no update available, so check here
+      console.log("An update is available! " + update.name);
+      console.log("You are on version " + options.currentVersion + "!");
+    } else {
+      console.log("You are up to date.");
+    }
+  })
+  .catch(error => {
+    console.error(error);
+  });

lib/main.coffee

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ module.exports = (options, callback) ->
 ###
 check = (options, callback) ->
   # get options
-  token = options.token ? ''
+  token = options.token ? process.env.GITHUB_API_TOKEN ? ''
   repo = options.repo ? ''
   owner = options.owner ? ''
   currentVersion = options.currentVersion ? ''