Allow private repositories

[Explosion-Scratch]

Use login with GitHub to allow fetching private repositories

[cyclotruc]

I plan to add this option at some point but not right now because I'd like to improve the functionalities on public repos before. Feel free to draft a PR for that if you have time, even if it's just a PoC

[VladStoyanovADP]

much needed!

[moebiussurfing]

+1 for this one

[cyclotruc]

Update:
Implementing this option means dealing with user Github Tokens on Gitingest.com.
This is a security concern that I take very seriously

So as of right now the feature is top priority and I'm doing everything I can to ship it securely soon.
But any help on that matter would be greatly appreciated. Please reach out if you have experience with security: https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest?tab=security-ov-file#readme

[moebiussurfing]

there's a similar repo having this feature:
https://repo2txt.simplebasedomain.com/
maybe you can pick some ide about the token handling.

[Sarahkhan20]

It can be concerning for companies' private repositories , what do y'all think?

[phamhung075]

For company private repositories, I recommend running gitingest directly from the command line to ensure sensitive data remains secure.
you need clone this repos
https://pypi.org/project/gitingest/ then run
gitingest /path/to/directory

if you have problem
Error: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 22-24: character maps to <undefined> Aborted!

you can fix like that
https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest/pull/72

[cevatkerim]

With #69 I added this using PAT.