My own .pretty library on GitHub

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Hi All,
I would like to use my own pretty library of footprints hosted on GitHub. Even for better cooperation inside our project.
But when Im trying to add this repository to KiCad it doesn’t work for some reason.
When using library wizard it Fails and also when added manualy it doesn’t work. I’m new to GitHub, so maybe I’m doing something wrong. Could you please make it clear for me, if it is even possible?
The github address is https://github.com/DrMacak/ELI_HW_KiCad.pretty

Thanks.

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Nothing to do with your library, the “Wizard” doesn’t work for me either for custom libs. Interestingly, using the official kicad github page still works. Probably a bug.

You can still add it manually with the library manager. Don’t forget to set the library type to “github”.

Build 6474 (linux).

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Ah! I overlooked this “GitHub” option library manager. Thank you!
The wizard uses github API to get list of repos (I guess) this could be also issue since I’m not sure If I have it enabled on GitHub, or how to.
But manual append works now.

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Maybe the problem is that there is a difference between organizations and regular users.

So for instance the organization kicad’s repos can be retrieved with this link;
https://api.github.com/orgs/kicad/repos

But a users repos needs to be:
https://api.github.com/users/DrMacak/repos

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That’s probably it! Good thinking.