GitHub

Overview

GitHub is an online tool for software collaboration.

This GitHub class uses the PyGitHub library to make requests to the GitHub REST API. The class provides methods to:

  • Get an individual user, organization, repo, issue, or pull request

  • Get lists of user or organization repos for a given username or organization_name

  • Get lists of repo issues, pull requests, and contributors for a given repo_name

  • Download files and tables

Note

API Credentials

  • If you have a GitHub account you can use your normal username and password to authenticate with the API.

  • You can also use a personal access token.

Quickstart

To instantiate the GitHub class using a username and password, you can store your username and password as environmental variables (GITHUB_USERNAME and GITHUB_PASSWORD), or pass them in as arguments. Alternatively, you can provide a personal access token as an environmental variable (GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN) or as an argument.

from parsons import GitHub

# Authenticate by passing a username and password arguments
github = GitHub(username='my_username', password='my_password')

# Authenticate by passing an access token as an argument
github = GitHub(access_token='my_access_token')

# Authenticate with environmental variables
github = GitHub()

With the class instantiated, you can now call various endpoints.

# Get repo by its full name (account/name)
parsons_repo = github.get_repo("move-coop/parsons")

# Get the first page of a repo's issues as a Table
parsons_issues_table = github.list_repo_issues("move-coop/parsons")

# Download Parsons README.md to local "/tmp/README.md"
parsons_readme_path = github.download_file("move-coop/parsons", "README.md", local_path="/tmp/README.md")

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