PyGitHub Quickstart Examples
Helpful examples can make up for a lack of documentation. In this article, Chase Seibert shares some of his example code.
PyGitHub is the most popular GitHub API SDK for Python. Their documentation is very light on examples. They seem to think that this is fine. This makes for a prime candidate for the new Stack Overflow Documentation site!
In the meantime, I thought I would share my example code. These took me an hour of playing with the REPL to figure out.
Working With Pull Requests
The main challenge here was realizing that I needed to scope everything to my private org, not my user.
git = PyGithub('GITHUB_TOKEN')
org = git.get_organization('OrgName')
repo = org.get_repo('repo-name')
pr = repo.get_pull(1)
print 'PR author: %s' % pr.user.login
comments = pr.get_issue_comments()
for comment in comments:
print 'Comment: ', comment.created_at, comment.user.login, comment.body
pr.create_issue_comment('Comment from GITHUB_TOKEN user') # aka git.get_user()Getting the Contents of a File
From the default branch, not a particular pull request.
git = PyGithub('GITHUB_TOKEN')
org = git.get_organization('OrgName')
repo = org.get_repo('repo-name')
file_contents = repo.get_file_contents('path/to/file')Listing the Members of a GitHub Team
There is no method to get a team by name, so you need to get them all and then pick out the one you want.
git = PyGithub('GITHUB_TOKEN')
org = git.get_organization('OrgName')
teams = org.get_teams()
team = [t for t in teams if t.name == 'TeamName'][0] # assumes a match
print [m.login for m in team.get_members()]Published at DZone with permission of Chase Seibert. See the original article here.
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