github2pycharm

Lets you cmd+click or ctrl+click on a line and see it in PyCharm.

Installation

Browser extension (part 1)

Browser extension is located in extension folder.

Firefox web instructions

• Enter about:debugging in the URL bar.
• Click "Load Temporary Add-on".
• In the popped-up file browser, select either the manifest or js file of this extension.

Chrome web instructions

• Visit chrome://extensions in your browser.
• Ensure that the Developer mode checkbox in the top right-hand corner is checked.
• Click Load unpacked extension… to pop up a file-selection dialog.
• Navigate to the directory in which your extension files live, and select it.

Alternatively, you can drag and drop the directory where your extension files live onto chrome://extensions in your browser to load it.

Local server (part 2)

1. Ensure you have Python 3 and Flask (pip install flask or pip3 depending on your setup) installed.

2. Navigate to the package github2pycharm (direct parent of server.py).

3. Run

   export FLASK_APP=server.py
   python3 -m flask run -p 50007

   (on Windows substitute set for export)

Configuration

Just copy the settings.py.sample as settings.py, set path to PyCharm executable and map Github repository names with repository paths on your machine.

Comments

The port number is hardcoded in the extension

todo - create setup.py, but what about the configuration files?