Scanning a local project

[jtmoulia]

I'm interested in using this tool, but our code is hosted on GitLab rather than GitHub.

My thought is that if foss-finder can scan a local project it'll work independent of where the code is hosted.

Nifty tool!

[timburke]

Hi @jtmoulia

That would be really useful. It looks like it would be a fairly quick change as well:

The only function the needs to change is get_dir_content to support a fully local path (maybe when repo=None):

• https://github.com/iotile/foss_finder/blob/master/foss_finder/scripts/foss_finder_cli.py#L19

and then an update to the parser to not enforce passing github credentials:

• https://github.com/iotile/foss_finder/blob/master/foss_finder/scripts/foss_finder_cli.py#L90

It looks like all of the underlying scanning logic doesn't rely on the code being hosted on github at all.
We don't have bandwidth to add this feature in the near future but a PR would be very welcome and at some point we're planning a refactor that would allow natively targeting various providers like GitLab and fully local in a generic way but that doesn't have a timeline attached to it at this point.

[jtmoulia]

Thanks for the info @timburke -- hopefully I can make the changes in the next week or so.