Print GitHub Repositories as Books

20 der_gopher 14 9/7/2025, 9:01:33 PM gitprint.me ↗

Comments (14)

politelemon · 10h ago
This application will be able to read and write all public and private repository data. This includes the following:

    Code
    Issues
    Pull requests
    Wikis
    Settings
    Webhooks and services
    Deploy keys
    Collaboration invites
Note: In addition to repository related resources, the repo scope also grants access to manage organization attributes and organization-owned resources including projects, invitations, team memberships and webhooks. This scope also grants the ability to manage projects owned by users.
der_gopher · 28m ago
I am the author of it, this is indeed too much, will remove the unnecessary scopes, the software needs to read the contents only.
behnamoh · 9h ago
Ew, flagged it ASAP.
mkagenius · 10h ago
Yikes
pointlessone · 9h ago
Looking at the examples I mourn. I wonder if the author ever saw a real book. No table of contents, no chapters, no page numbers, not even proper margins. There’s so much one can do to lay out code for paper nicely and none of it is here.
der_gopher · 27m ago
Thanks for the feedback, yes there is a lot to improve.
Waterluvian · 10h ago
If it’s going to simply guillotine content between pages, is there a better way to present it? Can PDFs have arbitrary length pages with better divides? Or one massive page? I guess I’m assuming nobody actually wants to print these and PDF is just a nice format.
der_gopher · 27m ago
Something to improve, I use gotenberg, and it doesn't do it by default, need to somehow cut it nicely.
sixtyj · 10h ago
There are some pdf libraries that can format inputs into pages with margins defined in some config file. But I had to ask Claude to make a script as there are so many parameters…

Tcpdf or mpdf for PHP… fpdf or weasyprint for python.

BSOhealth · 10h ago
A little of a tangent, but I always thought it’d be cool to have certain libraries printed out in very high quality as posters. Redux was one example in particular—something very concise yet powerful and kind of worth admiring to that extent.
mkagenius · 10h ago
I was thinking of getting an ink-tank printer to just print codes and read it (brother TCP 820dw) . Especially the codes suggested by qwen/gemini/claude to review it or get ideas before merging it or discarding it or re-prompting it.

Sitting at the computer for long does me no good.

From the iTerm2, one could go in the menu option shell and hit print (buffer) and it would just create the whole pdf with colors intact.

fetzu · 10h ago
Is it just my (iOS) device or are the chapters/tables just split randomly across pages?
superpope99 · 10h ago
why does it need access to my private repositories?
der_gopher · 26m ago
You can select the repositories you give access to, give access to private if you want to print them.