githubpy

Welcome

githubpy is a simple Python SDK for GitHub API v3. It is a small single-file and easy-to-use.

Sample code:

>>> gh = GitHub()
>>> gh.users('michaelliao').get()
{'public_repos': 11, 'name': u'Michael Liao', ... }

Requirement:

Python 2.5 (with simplejson), 2.6, 2.7

Call APIs

All APIs are dynamic calls. You can construct API call by GitHub's API doc.

For example, according to GitHub API doc of how to get a single user:

GET /users/:user

There is a variable :user, so we can make a call in Python like this:

>>> gh.users('michaelliao').get()
{'public_repos': 11, 'name': u'Michael Liao', ...}

Returns dict but also can be treated as object:

>>> u['name']
u'Michael Liao'
>>> u.name
u'Michael Liao'

Another example of how to list issues for a repository:

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/issues
Parameters
  milestone
    Integer Milestone number
    none for Issues with no Milestone.
    * for Issues with any Milestone.
  state
    open, closed, default: open
  assignee
    String User login
    none for Issues with no assigned User.
    * for Issues with any assigned User.
  ...

Passing keyword arguments in Python code for getting 'open' issues which assigned to 'michaelliao':

>>> gh.repos('michaelliao')('githubpy').issues \
      .get(state='open', assignee='michaelliao')

Using POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE

Create an issue:

POST /repos/:owner/:repo/issues
Input
  title
    Required string
  body
    Optional string
  assignee
    Optional string - Login for the user that this issue should be assigned to.
  ...

Python code to create an issue:

>>> gh.repos('michaelliao')('githubpy').issues \
      .post(title='sample issue', body='found a bug')

Remember all APIs are dynamic calls so you don't need update this SDK if GitHub add new APIs.

Authentication

Anonymous API call:

>>> gh = GitHub()

Basic authentication using username and password:

>>> gh = GitHub(username='loginname', password='your-password')

OAuth authentication is a bit complicated:

Step 1: redirect user to the generated URL:

>>> gh = GitHub(client_id='1234', client_secret='secret')
>>> print gh.authorize_url(state='a-random-string')
'https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize?client_id=1234'

Step 2: GitHub redirects back to your site with parameter 'code' and 'state' (optional). Then get an access token:

>>> code = request.input('code')
>>> state = request.input('state')
>>> print gh.get_access_token(code, state)
'abc1234567xyz'

Step 3: Using access token as authentication to call APIs:

>>> gh = GitHub(access_token='abc1234567xyz')

Errors

ApiError raises if something wrong. There are 2 sub-classes ApiAuthError and ApiNotFoundError.

try:
    gh.user.emails.delete('email@example.com')
except ApiNotFoundError, e:
    print e, e.request, e.response

NOTE: You may get ApiNotFoundError (404 Not Found) even if the URL is correct but authentication fail. According to GitHub's doc:

Requests that require authentication will return 404, instead of 403, 
in some places. This is to prevent the accidental leakage of private 
repositories to unauthorized users.

Rate Limiting

You can find rate limiting after API call:

>>> u = gh.users('michaelliao').get()
>>> gh.x_ratelimit_limit
5000
>>> gh.x_ratelimit_remaining
4999

Licensing

githubpy is distributed under Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE file.

Enjoy!