github3.py

Eventually this will be a python module to access the GitHub v3 API.

This is not stable yet and there is no backwards compatibility yet. There will likely be some changes which change behavior in the near future.

Easy Cloning

Assuming you have git 1.7.x (although I'm not entirely certain what version it was introduced in) you can perform git clone --recursive git://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py.git github3.py to clone this and the submodule at the same time. Otherwise you have to do:

$ git clone git://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py.git
$ cd github3.py
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Dependencies

• requests by Kenneth Reitz

In Progress

• Repository Downloads: stalled [1]

License

Modified BSD license

Examples

See the docs for more detailed examples.

>>> from github3 import login
>>> gh = login(username, password)
>>> issue = gh.issue('sigmavirus24', 'Todo.txt-python', 17)
>>> issue.html_url
u'https://github.com/sigmavirus24/Todo.txt-python/issues/17'
>>> issue.state
u'open'
>>> events = issue.list_events()
>>> events
[<Issue Event [#17 - subscribed - sigmavirus24]>, <Issue Event [#17 - assigned - sigmavirus24]>,
 <Issue Event [#17 - referenced - sigmavirus24]>]
>>> events[0].actor
<User [sigmavirus24:None]>
>>> events[0].issue
<Issue [sigmavirus24/Todo.txt-python #17]>
>>> events[0].closed_at
>>> events[0].event
u'subscribed'

>>> from github3 import login
>>> g = login(username, password)
>>> repo = g.repository('sigmavirus24', 'Todo.txt-python')
>>> sha = repo.create_blob('Testing blob creation', 'utf-8')
>>> sha
u'57fad9a39b27e5eb4700f66673ce860b65b93ab8'
>>> blob = repo.blob(sha)
>>> blob.content
u'VGVzdGluZyBibG9iIGNyZWF0aW9u\n'
>>> blob.decoded
u'Testing blob creation'
>>> blob.encoding
u'base64'

>>> from github3 import login
>>> g = login(username, password)
>>> repo = g.repository('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py')
>>> tag = repo.tag('cdba84b4fede2c69cb1ee246b33f49f19475abfa')
>>> tag
<Tag [cdba84b4fede2c69cb1ee246b33f49f19475abfa]>
>>> tag.object.sha
u'24ea44d302c6394a0372dcde8fd8aed899c0034b'
>>> tag.object.type
u'commit'

Contributing

Please see the section of the documentation pertaining to this.

Testing

If you want to run the unittests with authentication, simply run:

./unittests.py

From the root of the repository. If you would rather see what will take place on Travis, run:

CI=true ./unittests.py

Author

Ian Cordasco (sigmavirus24)

Contact Options

• You may contact (via email) the author directly with questions/suggestions
• You may send your email to github3.py@librelist.com

[1]	Creating a download via Amazon S3 seems to always return an invalid multipart/form-data POST request.