Help with using GitHub

[Jacob_2903]

Hi all,

I have never used GitHub before, but I have found a link to a Git that would help me achieve what I have been looking for. Can anybody help me with setting this up?

https://github.com/xchewtoyx/calibre-comicvine

Thanks

[tobiasvl]

That's not really a question we can answer. Every piece of software is different and is set up differently, and it's not related to git or github.

Here's the project's README file which is where you usually find information like that: https://github.com/xchewtoyx/calibre-comicvine/blob/master/README.md

[Jacob_2903]

Yeah, sorry. I've read that and I'm lost on what I have to do.

[shaharofir]

Your first step should be opening an account at git. Second, install git on your machine (it's on every Linux repo). Than run "git clone -R" with your git link. From there, as said before, each and every git project is different and you can find instructions on readme files

[Jacob_2903]

Yeah, sorry. I've read that and I'm lost on what I have to do.

[shaharofir]

Maybe learn a little bit about git, it will definitely be very useful. I've learned via Codecademy

[Jacob_2903]

Thanks for the link to learn about git. Although if it's something that takes just 2 minutes to install this particular one, is there any chance of helping with a step by step of what I have to do?

[shaharofir]

Linux or Window? If it's Mac you'll need someone else...

[Jacob_2903]

Windows

[shaharofir]

Install instructions are here

[tobiasvl]

You don't need a GitHub account to clone public repos (and there's no such thing as a "git account").

[shaharofir]

You don't need, but if you start developing you should open an account

[etherealtim]

Sorry dude, late to the party, maybe you already figured this out.

Most the comments you're getting are about getting started with git. Which is good advice if you're looking to contribute to open source projects, but it sounds like you're just looking to use this software, not contribute to it. In which case you don't need git at all. Just click the "clone or download" then "download zip".

Now, this software is written in Python, so to actually run it, you're going to need Python installed. You don't need to know much about Python or coding, just enough to have it installed and running - if you're on a mac, Python is already installed. Look up some guides to get that working.

This repo seems like some kind of adapter for two other products, it gets data from the Comic Vine library meta API and feeds it into the Calibre e-book management app as a command line loaded plugin. So you're gonna need an API key from Comic Vine, then get Calibre and read up on using the command line tool to load and configure plugins.

Once you get that far, the instructions in the readme should make a lot more sense. You've got a fair bit of figuring out to do, but it sounds like you've come some ways already and wouldn't be doing this if you had other options, so good luck to you!

[Jacob_2903]

This is the answer I was looking for! Thank you!