🚀 InvitePilot: Ultimate GitHub Collaborator Automator

Streamline your GitHub workflow. Invite hundreds of collaborators in seconds.

Features • Web UI • Setup • Contributing

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📖 Overview

InvitePilot is a high-performance Python-based automation tool designed for developers, educators, and community managers who need to manage large-scale GitHub repository access. Whether you're running an open-source project, a coding bootcamp, or a corporate team, InvitePilot takes the manual labor out of collaborator management.

Tip

Why use InvitePilot? Manually adding 100+ users via the GitHub UI takes hours. InvitePilot does it in minutes while you grab a coffee. ☕

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🌟 Key Features

• 🎨 Professional Web UI: A beautiful, responsive dashboard to manage invitations and monitor progress in real-time.
• ⚡ Bulk Invitation: Process large batches of users efficiently via the GitHub REST API.
• 🔄 Smart Queueing: Automatically tracks successes and retries failures. Your to_be_invited.txt stays clean.
• 🛡️ Rate Limit Protection: Built-in intelligent delays to keep your GitHub account safe from secondary rate limits.
• ⚙️ Dynamic Configuration: Override defaults via the UI or keep things stable with .env files.
• 📝 Detailed Logging: Terminal-style logs with a full summary of every session.

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🌐 Modern Web Interface

InvitePilot now features a high-end web dashboard named InvitePilot Console.

Real-time log streaming with glassmorphism aesthetics.

🛠️ How to Start the Web Server

1. Ensure dependencies are installed: pip install requests python-dotenv flask
2. Launch the app:

   python app.py

3. Open your browser: http://127.0.0.1:5000

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🛠️ Installation & Setup

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/ishandutta2007/Invite-GitHub-Users.git
cd Invite-GitHub-Users

2️⃣ Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt
# OR
pip install requests python-dotenv flask

3️⃣ Configure Secrets

Create a .env file from the example:

cp .env.example .env

Add your GitHub Personal Access Token to ADMIN_TOKEN.

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🚀 Usage Modes

Method A: The Web Dashboard (Recommended)

Launch app.py, paste your list of usernames, and hit Initialize Automation.

Method B: The CLI Power-User

Populate to_be_invited.txt with usernames and run the script. You can use optional arguments to override settings:

python invite.py --delay 5.0 --max-invites 100 --repo My-Awesome-Repo

Available CLI Arguments:

Argument	Description
--token	GitHub Admin Token (overrides .env)
--owner	GitHub Repository Owner
--repo	GitHub Repository Name
--max-invites	Maximum number of invites to send (default: 60)
--delay	Delay in seconds between invites (default: 3.0)
--input	Path to input file (default: to_be_invited.txt)
--success-log	Path to success log (default: successful_invites.txt)

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⚙️ Configuration Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
OWNER	String	GitHub Username / Organization	ishandutta2007
REPO	String	Target Repository Name	Top-AI-repos
PERMISSION	Enum	pull, push, triage, maintain, admin	push
DELAY	Float	Seconds to wait between API calls	3.0

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🛡️ Security Best Practices

• Token Safety: Never share your .env file or commit it to version control.
• Scoped Access: Use Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens to limit the script's reach to only necessary repositories.

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🤝 Contributing

We love contributions!

1. 🍴 Fork the Project
2. 🌿 Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. 💾 Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. 🚀 Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. 📬 Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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👤 Author

Ishan Dutta

• GitHub: @ishandutta2007
• Website: ishandutta2007.github.io

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📈 Project Velocity

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