github3.py: A Library for Using GitHub’s REST API

Release v1.1.0.

github3.py is wrapper for the GitHub API written in python. The design of github3.py is centered around having a logical organization of the methods needed to interact with the API. As an example, let’s get information about a user:

from github3 import login

gh = login('sigmavirus24', password='<password>')

sigmavirus24 = gh.me()
# <AuthenticatedUser [sigmavirus24:Ian Stapleton Cordasco]>

print(sigmavirus24.name)
# Ian Stapleton Cordasco
print(sigmavirus24.login)
# sigmavirus24
print(sigmavirus24.followers_count)
# 4

for f in gh.followers():
    print(str(f))

kennethreitz = gh.user('kennethreitz')
# <User [kennethreitz:Kenneth Reitz]>

print(kennethreitz.name)
print(kennethreitz.login)
print(kennethreitz.followers_count)

followers = [str(f) for f in gh.followers('kennethreitz')]

There are several examples of different aspects of using github3.py

Using Two Factor Authentication with github3.py

GitHub recently added support for Two Factor Authentication to github.com and shortly thereafter added support for it on api.github.com. In version 0.8, github3.py also added support for it and you can use it right now.

To use Two Factor Authentication, you must define your own function that will return your one time authentication code. You then provide that function when logging in with github3.py.

For example:

import github3

try:
    # Python 2
    prompt = raw_input
except NameError:
    # Python 3
    prompt = input

def my_two_factor_function():
    code = ''
    while not code:
        # The user could accidentally press Enter before being ready,
        # let's protect them from doing that.
        code = prompt('Enter 2FA code: ')
    return code

g = github3.login('sigmavirus24', 'my_password',
                  two_factor_callback=my_two_factor_function)

Then each time the API tells github3.py it requires a Two Factor Authentication code, github3.py will call my_two_factor_function which prompt you for it.

Using Tokens for Your Projects

Let’s say you’re designing an application that uses github3.py. If your intention is to have users authenticate, you have a few options.

1. Ask the user to enter their credentials each time they start the application. (Or save the username somewhere, and just ask for the password.)
2. Ask the user to supply their credentials once and store them somewhere for later use.
3. Ask the user to supply their credentials once, get an authorization token and store that for later use.

The first isn’t a bad method at all, it just unfortunately may lead to unhappy users, this should always be an option though. The second (as I already noted) is a bad idea. Even if you obfuscate the username and password, they can still be discovered and no level of obfuscation is clever enough. (May I also take this moment to remind people that base64 is not encryption.) The last is probably the least objectionable of the evils. The token has scopes so there is only so much someone can do with it and it works well with github3.py.

Requesting a token

If you’re not doing a web application, you are more than welcome to use github3.py (otherwise work with redirects). Let’s say your application needs access to public and private repositories, and the users but not to gists. Your scopes should be ['user', 'repo']. I’m also assuming your application will not be deleting any repositories. The only things left to do are collect the username and password and give a good description for your application.

from github3 import authorize
from getpass import getuser, getpass

user = getuser()
password = ''

while not password:
    password = getpass('Password for {0}: '.format(user))

note = 'github3.py example app'
note_url = 'http://example.com'
scopes = ['user', 'repo']

auth = authorize(user, password, scopes, note, note_url)

with open(CREDENTIALS_FILE, 'w') as fd:
    fd.write(auth.token + '\n')
    fd.write(auth.id)

In the future, you can then read that token in without having to bother your user. If at some later point in the lifetime of your application you need more privileges, you simply do the following:

from github3 import login

token = id = ''
with open(CREDENTIALS_FILE, 'r') as fd:
    token = fd.readline().strip()  # Can't hurt to be paranoid
    id = fd.readline().strip()

gh = login(token=token)
auth = gh.authorization(id)
auth.update(add_scopes=['repo:status', 'gist'], rm_scopes=['user'])

# if you want to be really paranoid, you can then test:
# token == auth.token
# in case the update changes the token

Gist Code Examples

Examples with Gists

Listing gists after authenticating

from github3 import login

gh = login(username, password)
gists = [g for g in gh.iter_gists()]

Creating a gist after authenticating

from github3 import login

gh = login(username, password)
files = {
    'spam.txt' : {
        'content': 'What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?'
        }
    }
gist = gh.create_gist('Answer this to cross the bridge', files, public=False)
# gist == <Gist [gist-id]>
print(gist.html_url)

Creating an anonymous gist

from github3 import create_gist

files = {
    'spam.txt' : {
        'content': 'What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?'
        }
    }
gist = create_gist('Answer this to cross the bridge', files)
comments = [c for c in gist.iter_comments()]
# []
comment = gist.create_comment('Bogus. This will not work.')
# Which of course it didn't, because you're not logged in
# comment == None
print(gist.html_url)

In the above examples 'spam.txt' is the file name. GitHub will auto-detect file type based on extension provided. 'What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?' is the file’s content or body. 'Answer this to cross the bridge' is the gists’s description. While required by github3.py, it is allowed to be empty, e.g., '' is accepted by GitHub.

Note that anonymous gists are always public.

Git Code Examples

The GitHub API does not just provide an API to interact with GitHub’s features. A whole section of the API provides a RESTful API to git operations that one might normally perform at the command-line or via your git client.

Creating a Blob Object

One of the really cool (and under used, it seems) parts of the GitHub API involves the ability to create blob objects.

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'

Creating a Tag Object

GitHub provides tar files for download via tag objects. You can create one via git tag or you can use the API.

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'

GitHub Examples

Examples using the GitHub object.

Assumptions

I’ll just make some basic assumptions for the examples on this page. First, let’s assume that all you ever import from github3.py is login and GitHub and that you have already received your GitHub object g. That might look like this:

from github3 import login, GitHub
from getpass import getpass, getuser
import sys
try:
    import readline
except ImportError:
    pass

try:
    user = raw_input('GitHub username: ')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    user = getuser()

password = getpass('GitHub password for {0}: '.format(user))

# Obviously you could also prompt for an OAuth token
if not (user and password):
    print("Cowardly refusing to login without a username and password.")
    sys.exit(1)

g = login(user, password)

So anywhere you see g used, you can safely assume that it is an instance where a user has authenticated already.

For the cases where we do not need an authenticated user, or where we are trying to demonstrate the differences between the two, I will use anon. anon could be instantiated like so:

anon = GitHub()

Also let’s define the following constants:

sigma = 'sigmavirus24'
github3 = 'github3.py'
todopy = 'Todo.txt-python'
kr = 'kennethreitz'
requests = 'requests'

We may not need all of them, but they’ll be useful

Adding a new key to your account

try:
    path = raw_input('Path to key: ')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    path = ''

try:
    name = raw_input('Key name: ')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    name = ''

if not (path and name):  # Equivalent to not path or not name
    print("Cannot create a new key without a path or name")
    sys.exit(1)

with open(path, 'r') as key_file:
    key = g.create_key(name, key_file)
    if key:
        print('Key {0} created.'.format(key.title))
    else:
        print('Key addition failed.')

Deleting the key we just created

Assuming we still have key from the previous example:

if g.delete_key(key.id):
    print("Successfully deleted key {0}".format(key.id))

There would actually be an easier way of doing this, however, if we do have the key object that we created:

if key.delete():
    print("Successfully deleted key {0}".format(key.id))

Creating a new repository

repo = {}
keys = ['name', 'description', 'homepage', 'private', 'has_issues',
    'has_wiki', 'has_downloads']

for key in keys:
    try:
        repo[key] = raw_input(key + ': ')
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

r = None
if repo.get('name'):
    r = g.create_repo(repo.pop('name'), **repo)

if r:
    print("Created {0} successfully.".format(r.name))

Create a commit to change an existing file

repo.contents('/README.md').update('commit message', 'file content'.encode('utf-8'))

Follow another user on GitHub

I’m cheating here and using most of the follow functions in one example

if not g.is_following(sigma):
    g.follow(sigma)

if not g.is_subscribed(sigma, github3py):
    g.subscribe(sigma, github3py)

if g.is_subscribed(sigma, todopy):
    g.unsubscribe(sigma, todopy)

for follower in g.iter_followers():
    print("{0} is following me.".format(follower.login))

for followee in g.iter_following():
    print("I am following {0}.".format(followee.login))

if g.is_following(sigma):
    g.unfollow(sigma)

Changing your user information

Note that you can not change your login name via the API.

new_name = 'J. Smith'
blog = 'http://www.example.com/'
company = 'Vandelay Industries'
bio = """# J. Smith

A simple man working at a latex factory
"""

if g.update_user(new_name, blog, company, bio=bio):
    print('Profile updated.')

This is the same as:

me = g.me() # or me = g.user(your_user_name)
if me.update(new_name, blog, company, bio=bio):
    print('Profile updated.')

Issue Code Examples

Examples using Issues

Administering Issues

Let’s assume you have your username and password stored in user and pw respectively, you have your repository name stored in repo, and the number of the issue you’re concerned with in num.

from github3 import login

gh = login(user, pw)
issue = gh.issue(user, repo, num)
if issue.is_closed():
    issue.reopen()

issue.edit('New issue title', issue.body + '\n------\n**Update:** Text to append')

Closing and Commenting on Issues

# Assuming issue is the same as above ...
issue.create_comment('This should be fixed in 6d4oe5. Closing as fixed.')
issue.close()

Example issue to comment on

If you would like to test the above, see issue #108. Just follow the code there and fill in your username, password (or token), and comment message. Then run the script and watch as the issue opens in your browser focusing on the comment you just created.

The following shows how you could use github3.py to fetch and display your issues in your own style and in your webbrowser.

import webbrowser
import tempfile
import github3

template = """<html><head></head><body>{0}</body></html>"""

i = github3.issue('kennethreitz', 'requests', 868)

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmpfd:
    tmpfd.write(template.format(i.body_html))
    webbrowser.open('file://' + tmpfd.name)

Or how to do the same by wrapping the lines in your terminal.

import github3
import textwrap

i = github3.issue('kennethreitz', 'requests', 868)
for line in textwrap.wrap(i.body_text, 78, replace_whitespace=False):
    print line

Importing an issue

Not only can you create new issues, but you can import existing ones. When importing, you preserve the timestamp creation date; you can preserve the timestamp(s) for comment(s) too.

import github3
gh = github3.login(token=token)
issue = {
   'title': 'Documentation issue',
   'body': 'Missing links in index.html',
   'created_at': '2011-03-11T17:00:40Z'
}

repository = gh.repository(user, repo)
repository.import_issue(**issue)

Status of imported issue

Here’s how to check the status of the imported issue.

import github3
issue = repository.imported_issue(issue_num)
print issue.status

Taking Advantage of GitHubIterator

Let’s say that for some reason you’re stalking all of GitHub’s users and you just so happen to be using github3.py to do this. You might write code that looks like this:

import github3

g = github3.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)

for u in g.iter_all_users():
    add_user_to_database(u)

The problem is that you will then have to reiterate over all of the users each time you want to get the new users. You have two approaches you can take to avoid this with GitHubIterator.

You can not call the method directly in the for-loop and keep the iterator as a separate reference like so:

i = g.iter_all_users():

for u in i:
    add_user_to_database(u)

The First Approach

Then after your first pass through your GitHubIterator object will have an attribute named etag. After you’ve added all the currently existing users you could do the following to retrieve the new users in a timely fashion:

import time

while True:
    i.refresh(True)
    for u in i:
        add_user_to_database(u)

    time.sleep(120)  # Sleep for 2 minutes

The Second Approach

etag = i.etag
# Store this somewhere

# Later when you start a new process or go to check for new users you can
# then do

i = g.iter_all_users(etag=etag)

for u in i:
    add_user_to_database(u)

---

If there are no new users, these approaches won’t impact your ratelimit at all. This mimics the ability to conditionally refresh data on almost all other objects in github3.py.

Using Logging with github3.py

New in version 0.6.0.

The following example shows how to set up logging for github3.py. It is off by default in the library and will not pollute your logs.

import github3
import logging

# Set up a file to have all the logs written to
file_handler = logging.FileHandler('github_script.log')

# Send the logs to stderr as well
stream_handler = logging.StreamHandler()

# Format the log output and include the log level's name and the time it was
# generated
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s')

# Use that Formatter on both handlers
file_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
stream_handler.setFormatter(formatter)

# Get the logger used by github3.py internally by referencing its name
# directly
logger = logging.getLogger('github3')
# Add the handlers to it
logger.addHandler(file_handler)
logger.addHandler(stream_handler)
# Set the level which determines what you see
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# Make a library call and see the information posted
r = github3.repository('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py')
print('{0} - {0.html_url}'.format(r))

One thing to note is that if you want more detailed information about what is happening while the requests are sent, you can do the following:

import logging
urllib3 = logging.getLogger('requests.packages.urllib3')

And configure the logger for urllib3. Unfortunately, requests itself doesn’t provide any logging, so the best you can actually get is by configuring urllib3.

You will see messages about the following in the logs:

• Construction of URLs used in requests, usually in the form: ('https://api.github.com', 'repos', 'sigmavirus24', 'github3.py')
• What request is being sent, e.g., POST https://api.github.com/user kwargs={}
• If JSON is trying to be extracted from the response, what the response’s status code was, what the expected status code was and whether any JSON was actually returned.

A Conversation With Octocat

import github3

print("Hey Octocat")
print(github3.octocat("Hey Ian"))
print("What do you think about github3.py?")
print(github3.octocat("github3.py rocks!"))
print("Thanks Octocat, that means a lot coming from you.")
print("FIN.")
print("""Epilog:
    The preceding conversation was entirely fictional. If you didn't realize
    that, you need to get out more.
""")

What you should see

Hey Octocat

           MMM.           .MMM
           MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
           MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM      _________
          MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM    |         |
         MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   | Hey Ian |
        MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   |_   _____|
        MMMM::- -:::::::- -::MMMM    |/
         MM~:~   ~:::::~   ~:~MM
    .. MMMMM::. .:::+:::. .::MMMMM ..
          .MM::::: ._. :::::MM.
             MMMM;:::::;MMMM
      -MM        MMMMMMM
      ^  M+     MMMMMMMMM
          MMMMMMM MM MM MM
               MM MM MM MM
               MM MM MM MM
            .~~MM~MM~MM~MM~~.
         ~~~~MM:~MM~~~MM~:MM~~~~
        ~~~~~~==~==~~~==~==~~~~~~
         ~~~~~~==~==~==~==~~~~~~
             :~==~==~==~==~~

What do you think about github3.py?

           MMM.           .MMM
           MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
           MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM      ___________________
          MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM    |                   |
         MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   | github3.py rocks! |
        MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   |_   _______________|
        MMMM::- -:::::::- -::MMMM    |/
         MM~:~   ~:::::~   ~:~MM
    .. MMMMM::. .:::+:::. .::MMMMM ..
          .MM::::: ._. :::::MM.
             MMMM;:::::;MMMM
      -MM        MMMMMMM
      ^  M+     MMMMMMMMM
          MMMMMMM MM MM MM
               MM MM MM MM
               MM MM MM MM
            .~~MM~MM~MM~MM~~.
         ~~~~MM:~MM~~~MM~:MM~~~~
        ~~~~~~==~==~~~==~==~~~~~~
         ~~~~~~==~==~==~==~~~~~~
             :~==~==~==~==~~

Thanks Octocat, that means a lot coming from you.
FIN.
Epilog:
    The preceding conversation was entirely fictional. If you didn't realize
    that, you need to get out more. And yes, I did just have a
    conversation with an API. Cool, no? (Sad too, I guess.)

Installation

$ pip install github3.py

User Guide

User Guide for github3.py

This section of our documentation is intended to guide you, the user, through various ways of using the library and to introduce you to some high-level concepts in the library.

Getting Started

This chapter in our documentation will teach you how to get started using github3.py after you’ve installed the library.

Using the library

To get started using the library, it’s important to note that the module that is provided by this library is called github3. To use it you can run:

import github3

where necessary.

Logging into GitHub using github3.py

Once you’ve ipmorted the module, you can get started using the API. It’s recommended that you authenticate with GitHub to avoid running into their ratelimits. To do so you have a few options.

First, you can use your username and password. We advise you not to type your password into your shell or python console directly as others can view that after the fact. For the sake of an example, let’s assume that you have two variables bound as username and password that contain your username and password. You can then do:

import github3

github = github3.login(username=username, password=password)

Second, you can generate an access token and use that. Let’s presume you have a variable bound as token that contains your access token.

import github3

github = github3.login(token=token)

Third, if you’re using a GitHub Enterprise installation you can use similar methods above, but you’ll need to use enterprise_login(), e.g.,

import github3

githubent = github3.enterprise_login(
    url='https://github.myenterprise.example.com',
    username=username,
    password=password,
)

githubent = github3.enterprise_login(
    url='https://github.myenterprise.example.com',
    token=token,
)

Two-Factor Authentication and github3.py

GitHub has long supported the use of a second-factor authentication (a.k.a, 2FA) mechanism for logging in. This provides some extra security, especially around administrative actions on the website. If you choose to login with simply your username and password and you have to provide github3.py with a mechanism for obtaining your token and providing it to Github.

An example mechanism is as follows:

# This assumes Python 3
import github3


def second_factor_retrieval():
    """Provide a way to retrieve the code from the user."""
    code = ''
    while not code:
        code = input('Enter 2FA code: ')
    return code


github = github3.login(username, password,
                       two_factor_callback=second_factor_retrieval)

This means that for every API call made, GitHub will force us to prompt you for a new 2FA code. This is obviously not ideal. In those situations, you almost certainly want to obtain an access token.

Using the Repository APIs

Now that we have learned how to set up a client for use with our APIs, let’s begin to review how github3.py implements the Repositories API.

Retrieving Repositories

Once you’ve logged in you will have an instance of GitHub or GitHubEnterprise. Let’s assume either one is bound to a variable called github. To retrieve a single repository that we know the owner and name of, we would do the following:

repository = github.repository(owner, repository_name)

For example, let’s retrieve the repository of the uritemplate package that github3.py relies on:

uritemplate = github.repository('python-hyper', 'uritemplate')

It’s also possible for us to retrieve multiple repositories owned by the same user or organization:

for short_repository in github.repositories_by('python-hyper'):
    ...

When listing repositories, like listing other objects, the GitHub API doesn’t return the full representation of the object. In this case, github3.py returns a different object to represent a short repository. This object has fewer attributes, but can be converted into a full repository like so:

for short_repository in github.repositories_by('python-hyper'):
    full_repository = short_repository.refresh()

We now have two separate objects for the repository based on how GitHub represents them. Both objects have the same methods attached to them. There’s just a different set of attributes on each.

Interacting with Repositories

Repositories are central to many things in GitHub as well as in the API and as result they have many attributes and methods. It’s possible to list branches, collaborators, commits, contributors, deployments, forks, issues, projects, pull requests, refs, and more.

For example, we could build a tiny function that checks if a contributor has deleted their fork:

uritemplate = github.repository('python-hyper', 'uritemplate')
contributors_without_forks = (set(uritemplate.contributors()) -
                              set(fork.owner for fork in uritemplate.forks()))
print(f'The following contributors deleted their forks of {uritemplate!r}')
for contributor in sorted(contributors_without_forks, key=lambda c: c.login):
    print(f'  * {contributor.login}')

The output should look like

The following contributors deleted their forks of <Repository [python-hyper/uritemplate]>
  * eugene-eeo
  * jpotts18
  * sigmavirus24
  * thierryba

API Reference Documentation

API Reference

Anonymous Functional API

This part of the documentation covers the API. This is intended to be a beautifully written module which allows the user (developer) to interact with github3.py elegantly and easily.

Module Contents

To interact with the GitHub API you can either authenticate to access protected functionality or you can interact with it anonymously. Authenticating provides more functionality to the user (developer).

To authenticate, you may use github3.login().

github3.login(username=None, password=None, token=None, two_factor_callback=None)

Construct and return an authenticated GitHub session.

Note

To allow you to specify either a username and password combination or a token, none of the parameters are required. If you provide none of them, you will receive None.

Parameters:

• username (str) – login name
• password (str) – password for the login
• token (str) – OAuth token
• two_factor_callback (func) – (optional), function you implement to provide the Two Factor Authentication code to GitHub when necessary

Returns:

GitHub

With the GitHub object that is returned you have access to more functionality. See that object’s documentation for more information.

To use the API anonymously, you can also create a new GitHub object, e.g.,

from github3 import GitHub

gh = GitHub()

Or you can use the following functions:

Anonymous Functions

github3.authorize(username, password, scopes, note='', note_url='', client_id='', client_secret='', two_factor_callback=None, github=None)

Obtain an authorization token for the GitHub API.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required)
• password (str) – (required)
• scopes (list) – (required), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’
• note (str) – (optional), note about the authorization
• note_url (str) – (optional), url for the application
• client_id (str) – (optional), 20 character OAuth client key for which to create a token
• client_secret (str) – (optional), 40 character OAuth client secret for which to create the token
• two_factor_callback (func) – (optional), function to call when a Two-Factor Authentication code needs to be provided by the user.
• github (GitHub) – (optional), GitHub (or GitHubEnterprise) object for login.

Returns:

Authorization

Deprecated Functions

Warning

Due to GitHub’s anonymous ratelimits, it’s strongly advised that you don’t use these functions.

github3.create_gist(description, files)

Create an anonymous public gist.

Parameters:

• description (str) – (required), short description of the gist
• files (dict) – (required), file names with associated dictionaries for content, e.g. {‘spam.txt’: {‘content’: ‘File contents …’}}

Returns:

Gist

github3.gist(id_num)

Retrieve the gist identified by id_num.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), unique id of the gist Returns:Gist

github3.gitignore_template(language)

Return the template for language.

Returns:str

github3.gitignore_templates()

Return the list of available templates.

Returns:list of template names

github3.issue(owner, repository, number)

Anonymously gets issue :number on :owner/:repository.

Parameters:

• owner (str) – (required), repository owner
• repository (str) – (required), repository name
• number (int) – (required), issue number

Returns:

Issue

github3.issues_on(owner, repository, milestone=None, state=None, assignee=None, mentioned=None, labels=None, sort=None, direction=None, since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over issues on owner/repository.

Changed in version 0.9.0:

• The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

Parameters:

• owner (str) – login of the owner of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository
• milestone (int) – None, ‘*’, or ID of milestone
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’) api-default: ‘open’
• assignee (str) – ‘*’ or login of the user
• mentioned (str) – login of the user
• labels (str) – comma-separated list of label names, e.g., ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort (str) – accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) api-default: desc
• since (datetime or string) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1 returns all issues
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortIssues

github3.all_repositories(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over every repository in the order they were created.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1, returns all of them
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

github3.all_users(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over every user in the order they signed up for GitHub.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1, returns all of them
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of User

github3.all_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public events.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Event

github3.followers_of(username, number=-1, etag=None)

List the followers of username.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of the person to list the followers of
• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return, Default: -1, return all of them
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of User

github3.followed_by(username, number=-1, etag=None)

List the people username follows.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of the user
• number (int) – (optional), number of users being followed by username to return. Default: -1, return all of them
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of User

github3.public_gists(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over all public gists.

New in version 1.0: This was split from github3.iter_gists before 1.0.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of gists to return. Default: -1, return all of them
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Gist

github3.gists_by(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over gists created by the provided username.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), if provided, get the gists for this user instead of the authenticated user.
• number (int) – (optional), number of gists to return. Default: -1, return all of them
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Gist

github3.organizations_with(username, number=-1, etag=None)

List the organizations with username as a member.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of the user
• number (int) – (optional), number of orgs to return. Default: -1, return all of the issues
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortOrganization

github3.repositories_by(username, type=None, sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List public repositories for the specified username.

New in version 0.6.

Note

This replaces github3.iter_repos

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required)
• type (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘owner’, ‘member’) API default: ‘all’
• sort (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘pushed’, ‘full_name’) API default: ‘created’
• direction (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’), API default: ‘asc’ when using ‘full_name’, ‘desc’ otherwise
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository objects

github3.starred_by(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by username.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (optional), name of user whose stars you want to see
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

github3.subscriptions_for(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by username.

Parameters:

• username (str) – name of user whose subscriptions you want to see
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

github3.markdown(text, mode='', context='', raw=False)

Render an arbitrary markdown document.

Parameters:

• text (str) – (required), the text of the document to render
• mode (str) – (optional), ‘markdown’ or ‘gfm’
• context (str) – (optional), only important when using mode ‘gfm’, this is the repository to use as the context for the rendering
• raw (bool) – (optional), renders a document like a README.md, no gfm, no context

Returns:

str – HTML formatted text

github3.octocat(say=None)

Return an easter egg from the API.

Params str say:(optional), pass in what you’d like Octocat to say Returns:ascii art of Octocat

github3.organization(name)

Return an Organization object for the login name.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), login name of the org Returns:the organization Return type:Organization

github3.pull_request(owner, repository, number)

Anonymously retrieve pull request :number on :owner/:repository.

Parameters:

• owner (str) – (required), repository owner
• repository (str) – (required), repository name
• number (int) – (required), pull request number

Returns:

PullRequest

github3.rate_limit()

Return a dictionary with information from /rate_limit.

The dictionary has two keys: resources and rate. In resources you can access information about core or search.

Note: the rate key will be deprecated before version 3 of the GitHub API is finalized. Do not rely on that key. Instead, make your code future-proof by using core in resources, e.g.,

rates = g.rate_limit()
rates['resources']['core']  # => your normal ratelimit info
rates['resources']['search']  # => your search ratelimit info

New in version 0.8.

Returns:ratelimit mapping Return type:dict

github3.repository(owner, repository)

Retrieve the desired repository.

Parameters:

• owner (str) – (required)
• repository (str) – (required)

Returns:

the repository

Return type:

Repository

github3.search_code(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find code via the code search API.

Warning

You will only be able to make 5 calls with this or other search functions. To raise the rate-limit on this set of endpoints, create an authenticated GitHub Session with login.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifiers:

• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the file contents, the file path, or both.
• language Searches code based on the language it’s written in.
• fork Specifies that code from forked repositories should be searched. Repository forks will not be searchable unless the fork has more stars than the parent repository.
• size Finds files that match a certain size (in bytes).
• path Specifies the path that the resulting file must be at.
• extension Matches files with a certain extension.
• user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.

For more information about these qualifiers, see: http://git.io/-DvAuA

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., addClass in:file language:js repo:jquery/jquery
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; option(s): indexed; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/4ct1eQ for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1, returns all available repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), previous ETag header value

Returns:

generator of CodeSearchResult

github3.search_issues(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find issues by state and keyword

Warning

You will only be able to make 5 calls with this or other search functions. To raise the rate-limit on this set of endpoints, create an authenticated GitHub Session with login.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifers:

• type With this qualifier you can restrict the search to issues or pull request only.
• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the title, body, comments, or any combination of these.
• author Finds issues created by a certain user.
• assignee Finds issues that are assigned to a certain user.
• mentions Finds issues that mention a certain user.
• commenter Finds issues that a certain user commented on.
• involves Finds issues that were either created by a certain user, assigned to that user, mention that user, or were commented on by that user.
• state Filter issues based on whether they’re open or closed.
• labels Filters issues based on their labels.
• language Searches for issues within repositories that match a certain language.
• created or updated Filters issues based on times of creation, or when they were last updated.
• comments Filters issues based on the quantity of comments.
• user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.

For more information about these qualifiers, see: http://git.io/d1oELA

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., windows label:bug
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; options: created, comments, updated; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/QLQuSQ for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1, returns all available issues
• etag (str) – (optional), previous ETag header value

Returns:

generator of IssueSearchResult

github3.search_repositories(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find repositories via various criteria.

Warning

You will only be able to make 5 calls with this or other search functions. To raise the rate-limit on this set of endpoints, create an authenticated GitHub Session with login.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifers:

• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the repository name, description, readme, or any combination of these.
• size Finds repositories that match a certain size (in kilobytes).
• forks Filters repositories based on the number of forks, and/or whether forked repositories should be included in the results at all.
• created or pushed Filters repositories based on times of creation, or when they were last updated. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Examples: created:<2011, pushed:<2013-02, pushed:>=2013-03-06
• user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.
• language Searches repositories based on the language they’re written in.
• stars Searches repositories based on the number of stars.

For more information about these qualifiers, see: http://git.io/4Z8AkA

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., tetris language:assembly
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; options: stars, forks, updated; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/4ct1eQ for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1, returns all available repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), previous ETag header value

Returns:

generator of Repository

github3.search_users(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find users via the Search API.

Warning

You will only be able to make 5 calls with this or other search functions. To raise the rate-limit on this set of endpoints, create an authenticated GitHub Session with login.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifers:

• type With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just personal accounts or just organization accounts.
• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the username, public email, full name, or any combination of these.
• repos Filters users based on the number of repositories they have.
• location Filter users by the location indicated in their profile.
• language Search for users that have repositories that match a certain language.
• created Filter users based on when they joined.
• followers Filter users based on the number of followers they have.

For more information about these qualifiers see: http://git.io/wjVYJw

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., tom repos:>42 followers:>1000
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; options: followers, repositories, or joined; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/_V1zRwa for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of search results to return; Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag header value of the last request.

Returns:

generator of UserSearchResult

github3.user(username)

Retrieve a User object for the specified user name.

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user Returns:the user Return type:User

github3.zen()

Return a quote from the Zen of GitHub. Yet another API Easter Egg.

Returns:str

Enterprise Use

If you’re using github3.py to interact with an enterprise installation of GitHub, you must use the GitHubEnterprise object. Upon initialization, the only parameter you must supply is the URL of your enterprise installation, e.g.

from github3 import GitHubEnterprise

g = GitHubEnterprise('https://github.examplesintl.com')
stats = g.admin_stats('all')
assert 'issues' in stats, ('Key issues is not included in the admin'
                           'statistics')

Authorizations API Classes

This part of the documentation covers the Authorization object.

class github3.auths.Authorization(json, session)

Representation of an OAuth Authorization.

See also: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth_authorizations/

This object has the following attributes:

app

Details about the application the authorization was created for.

created_at

A datetime representing when this authorization was created.

fingerprint

New in version 1.0.

The optional parameter that is used to allow an OAuth application to create multiple authorizations for the same user. This will help distinguish two authorizations for the same app.

hashed_token

New in version 1.0.

This is the base64 of the SHA-256 digest of the token.

See also

Removing Authorization Tokens

The blog post announcing the removal of token.

id

The unique identifier for this authorization.

note_url

The URL that points to a longer description about the purpose of this autohrization.

note

The short note provided when this authorization was created.

scopes

The list of scopes assigned to this token.

See also

Scopes for OAuth Applications

GitHub’s documentation around available scopes and what they mean

token

If this authorization was created, this will contain the full token. Otherwise, this attribute will be an empty string.

token_last_eight

New in version 1.0.

The last eight characters of the token. This allows users to identify a token after the initial retrieval.

updated_at

A datetime representing when this authorization was most recently updated.

add_scopes(scopes, note=None, note_url=None)

Add the scopes to this authorization.

New in version 1.0.

Parameters:

• scopes (list) – Adds these scopes to the ones present on this authorization
• note (str) – (optional), Note about the authorization
• note_url (str) – (optional), URL to link to when the user views the authorization

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this authorization.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_scopes(scopes, note=None, note_url=None)

Remove the scopes from this authorization.

New in version 1.0.

Parameters:

• scopes (list) – Remove these scopes from the ones present on this authorization
• note (str) – (optional), Note about the authorization
• note_url (str) – (optional), URL to link to when the user views the authorization

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

replace_scopes(scopes, note=None, note_url=None)

Replace the scopes on this authorization.

New in version 1.0.

Parameters:

• scopes (list) – Use these scopes instead of the previous list
• note (str) – (optional), Note about the authorization
• note_url (str) – (optional), URL to link to when the user views the authorization

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Events API Classes

This part of the documentation covers the objects that represent data returned by the Events API.

The Event Object

class github3.events.Event(json, session)

Represents an event as returned by the API.

It structures and handles the data returned by via the Events section of the GitHub API.

Two events can be compared like so:

e1 == e2
e1 != e2

And that is equivalent to:

e1.id == e2.id
e1.id != e2.id

actor

A EventUser that represents the user whose action generated this event.

created_at

A datetime representing when this event was created.

id

The unique identifier for this event.

org

If present, a EventOrganization representing the organization on which this event occurred.

type

The type of event this is.

See also

Event Types Documentation

GitHub’s documentation of different event types

payload

The payload of the event which has all of the details relevant to this event.

repo

The string representation of the repository this event pertains to.

Changed in version 1.0.0: This restores the behaviour of the API. To get a tuple, representation, use self.repo.split('/', 1)

public

A boolean representing whether the event is publicly viewable or not.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

static list_types()

List available payload types.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

When accessing the payload of the event, you should notice that you receive a dictionary where the keys depend on the event type. Note:

• where they reference an array in the documentation but index it like a dictionary, you are given a regular dictionary

• where they reference a key as returning an object, you receive the equivalent object from the dictionary, e.g., for a Fork Event

  >>> event
  <Event [Fork]>
  >>> event.payload
  {u'forkee': <Repository [eweap/redactor-js]>}
  >>> event.payload['forkee']
  <ShortRepository [eweap/redactor-js]>
  

Using the dictionary returned as the payload makes far more sense than creating an object for the payload in this instance. For one, creating a class for each payload type would be insanity. I did it once, but it isn’t worth the effort. Having individual handlers as we have now which modify the payload to use our objects when available is more sensible.

Event Related Objects

The following objects are returned as part of an Event. These objects all have methods to convert them to full representations of the object. For example, EventUser has to_user() and aliases refresh() to behave similarly.

class github3.events.EventUser(json, session)

The class that represents the user information returned in Events.

Note

Refreshing this object will return a User.

avatar_url

The URL of the avatar image this user chose.

display_login

The login that is displayed as part of the event.

gravatar_id

The unique ID for the user’s gravatar, if they’re using gravatar to host their avatar.

id

The user’s unique ID in GitHub.

login

The user’s login (or handle) on GitHub.

class github3.events.EventOrganization(json, session)

Representation of the organization information returned in Events.

Note

Refreshing this object will return a Organization.

This object has the following attributes:

avatar_url

The URL to this organization’s avatar.

gravatar_id

The unique identifier for this organization on Gravatar, if its avatar is hosted there.

id

This organization’s unique identifier on GitHub.

login

The unique login for this organization.

class github3.events.EventPullRequest(json, session)

Representation of a Pull Request returned in Events.

Note

Refreshing this object returns a PullRequest.

This object has the following attributes:

id

The unique id of this pull request across all of GitHub.

number

The number of this pull request on its repository.

state

The state of this pull request during this event.

title

The title of this pull request during this event.

locked

A boolean attribute describing if this pull request was locked.

class github3.events.EventReviewComment(json, session)

Representation of review comments in events.

Note

Refreshing this object will return a new :class`~github3.pulls.ReviewComment`

This object has the following attributes:

id

The unique id of this comment across all of GitHub.

author_association

The association the author has with this project.

body

The markdown body of this review comment.

commit_id

The identifier of the commit that this comment was left on.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time this comment was created.

diff_hunk

The section (or hunk) of the diff this comment was left on.

html_url

The URL to view this comment in a browser.

links

A dictionary of links to various items about this comment.

original_commit_id

The identifier of original commit this comment was left on.

original_position

The original position within the diff this comment was left.

path

The path to the file this comment was left on.

position

The current position within the diff this comment is placed.

pull_request_url

The URL to retrieve the pull request informtation from the API.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time this comment was updated.

user

A ShortUser representing the user who authored this comment.

class github3.events.EventIssue(json, session)

The class that represents the issue information returned in Events.

class github3.events.EventIssueComment(json, session)

Representation of a comment left on an issue.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/comments/

This object has the following attributes:

author_association

The association of the author (user) with the repository this issue belongs to.

body

The markdown formatted original text written by the author.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this comment was created.

html_url

The URL to view this comment in a browser.

id

The unique identifier for this comment.

issue_url

The URL of the parent issue in the API.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this comment was most recently updated.

user

A ShortUser representing the author of this comment.

Gist API Objects

The Gists API has a rich set of objects it returns.

Gist Representations

class github3.gists.gist.ShortGist(json, session)

Short representation of a gist.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about gists based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific gist. For example, you would receive this class when calling all_gists(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of gists, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

This object only has the following attributes:

url

The GitHub API URL for this repository, e.g., https://api.github.com/gists/6faaaeb956dec3f51a9bd630a3490291.

comments_count

Number of comments on this gist

description

Description of the gist as written by the creator

html_url

The URL of this gist on GitHub, e.g., https://gist.github.com/sigmavirus24/6faaaeb956dec3f51a9bd630a3490291

id

The unique identifier for this gist.

public

This is a boolean attribute describing if the gist is public or private

git_pull_url

The git URL to pull this gist, e.g., git://gist.github.com/sigmavirus24/6faaaeb956dec3f51a9bd630a3490291.git

git_push_url

The git URL to push to gist, e.g., git@gist.github.com/sigmavirus24/6faaaeb956dec3f51a9bd630a3490291.git

created_at

This is a datetime object representing when the gist was created.

updated_at

This is a datetime object representing the last time this gist was

most recently updated.

owner

This attribute is a ShortUser object representing the creator of the gist.

files

A dictionary mapping the filename to a GistFile object.

Changed in version 1.0.0: Previously this was a list but it has been converted to a dictionary to preserve the structure of the API.

comments_url

The URL to retrieve the list of comments on the Gist via the API.

class github3.gists.gist.GistFork(json, session)

This object represents a forked Gist.

This has a subset of attributes of a ShortGist:

created_at

The date and time when the gist was created.

id

The unique identifier of the gist.

owner

The user who forked the gist.

updated_at

The date and time of the most recent modification of the fork.

url

The API URL for the fork.

class github3.gists.gist.Gist(json, session)

This object constitutes the full representation of a Gist.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about gists based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific gist. For example, you would receive this class when calling gist(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of gists, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

This object has all the same attributes as ShortGist as well as:

commits_url

The URL to retrieve gist commits from the GitHub API.

original_forks

A list of GistFork objects representing each fork of this gist. To retrieve the most recent list of forks, use the forks() method.

forks_url

The URL to retrieve the current listing of forks of this gist.

history

A list of GistHistory objects representing each change made to this gist.

truncated

This is a boolean attribute that indicates whether the content of this Gist has been truncated or not.

Files in a Gist

Gists have files which have two representations:

class github3.gists.file.GistFile(json, session)

This represents the full file object returned by interacting with gists.

The object has all of the attributes as returned by the API for a ShortGistFile as well as:

truncated

A boolean attribute that indicates whether original_content contains all of the file’s contents.

original_content

The contents of the file (potentially truncated) returned by the API. If the file was truncated use content() to retrieve it in its entirety.

class github3.gists.file.ShortGistFile(json, session)

This represents the file object returned by interacting with gists.

The object has the following attributes as returned by the API for a Gist:

raw_url

This URL provides access to the complete, untruncated content of the file represented by this object.

filename

The string for the filename.

language

The GitHub detected language for the file, e.g., Erlang, Python, text.

type

The mime-type of the file. Related to language.

size

The file size in bytes.

The History of a Gist

class github3.gists.history.GistHistory(json, session)

This object represents one version (or revision) of a gist.

The GitHub API returns the following attributes:

url

The URL to the revision of the gist retrievable through the API.

version

The commit ID of the revision of the gist.

user

The ShortUser representation of the user who owns this gist.

committed_at

The date and time of the revision’s commit.

change_status

A dictionary with the number of deletions, additions, and total changes to the gist.

For convenience, github3.py also exposes the following attributes from the change_status:

additions

The number of additions to the gist compared to the previous revision.

deletions

The number of deletions from the gist compared to the previous revision.

totoal

The total number of changes to the gist compared to the previous revision.

Git API Classes

This part of the documentation covers the module associated with the Git Data section of the GitHub API.

Like much of the GitHub API, many objects have different representations.

Blob Object(s)

class github3.git.Blob(json, session)

This object provides an interface to the API representation of a blob.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/blobs/

Changed in version 1.0.0:

• The content is no longer forcibly coerced to bytes.

• The decoded is deprecated in favor of decode_content().

This object has the following atributes

content

The raw content of the blob. This may be base64 encoded text. Use decode_content() to receive the non-encoded text.

encoding

The encoding that GitHub reports for this blob’s content.

size

The size of this blob’s content in bytes.

sha

The SHA1 of this blob’s content.

Commit Object(s)

class github3.git.Commit(json, session)

This represents a commit as returned by the git API.

This is distinct from RepoCommit. Primarily this object represents the commit data stored by git and it has no relationship to the repository on GitHub.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/commits/

This object has all of the attributes of a ShortCommit as well as the following attributes:

parents

The list of commits that are the parents of this commit. This may be empty if this is the initial commit, or it may have several if it is the result of an octopus merge. Each parent is represented as a dictionary with the API URL and SHA1.

sha

The unique SHA1 which identifies this commit.

verification

The GPG verification data about this commit. See https://developer.github.com/v3/git/commits/#commit-signature-verification for more information.

class github3.git.ShortCommit(json, session)

This represents a commit as returned by the git API.

This is distinct from RepoCommit. Primarily this object represents the commit data stored by git. This shorter representation of a Commit is most often found on a RepoCommit to represent the git data associated with it.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/commits/

This object has the following attributes:

author

This is a dictionary with at least the name and email of the author of this commit as well as the date it was authored.

committer

This is a dictionary with at least the name and email of the committer of this commit as well as the date it was committed.

message

The commit message that describes the changes as written by the author and committer.

tree

The git tree object this commit points to.

Tree Object(s)

class github3.git.CommitTree(json, session)

This object represents the abbreviated tree data in a commit.

The API returns different representations of different objects. When representing a ShortCommit or Commit, the API returns an abbreviated representation of a git tree.

This object has the following attributes:

sha

The SHA1 of this tree in the git repository.

class github3.git.Hash(json, session)

This is used to represent the elements of a tree.

This provides the path to the object and the type of object it is. For a brief explanation of what these types are and represent, this StackOverflow question answers some of that: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18605496/1953283

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/trees/#create-a-tree

This object has the following attributes:

mode

The mode of the file, directory, or link.

path

The path to the file, directory, or link.

sha

The SHA1 for this hash.

size

This attribute is only not None if the type is not a tree.

type

The type of git object this is representing, e.g., tree, blob, etc.

class github3.git.Tree(json, session)

This represents a tree object from a git repository.

Trees tend to represent directories and subdirectories.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/trees/

This object has the following attributes:

sha

The SHA1 of this tree in the git repository.

tree

A list that represents the nodes in the tree. If this list has members it will have instances of Hash.

Git Object, Reference, and Tag Object(s)

Yes, we know, GitObject is a funky name.

class github3.git.GitObject(json, session)

This object represents an arbitrary ‘object’ in git.

This object is intended to be versatile and is usually found on one of the following:

• Reference
• Tag

This object has the following attributes:

sha

The SHA1 of the object this is representing.

type

The name of the type of object this is representing.

class github3.git.Reference(json, session)

Object representing a git reference associated with a repository.

This represents a reference (or ref) created on a repository via git.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/refs/

This object has the following attributes:

object

A GitObject that this reference points to.

ref

The string path to the reference, e.g., 'refs/heads/sc/feature-a'.

class github3.git.Tag(json, session)

This represents an annotated tag.

Tags are a special kind of git reference and annotated tags have more information than lightweight tags.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/git/tags/

This object has the following attributes:

message

This is the message that was written to accompany the creation of the annotated tag.

object

A GitObject that represents the underlying git object.

sha

The SHA1 of this tag in the git repository.

tag

The “lightweight” tag (or reference) that backs this annotated tag.

tagger

The person who created this tag.

GitHub Object

The GitHub objects is the point at which most usage of github3.py works.

GitHub.com Object

class github3.github.GitHub(username='', password='', token='', session=None)

Stores all the session information.

There are two ways to log into the GitHub API

from github3 import login
g = login(user, password)
g = login(token=token)
g = login(user, token=token)

or

from github3 import GitHub
g = GitHub(user, password)
g = GitHub(token=token)
g = GitHub(user, token=token)

This is simple backward compatibility since originally there was no way to call the GitHub object with authentication parameters.

add_email_addresses(addresses=[])

Add the addresses to the authenticated user’s account.

Parameters:addresses (list) – (optional), email addresses to be added Returns:list of email objects Return type:[Email]

all_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public events.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

all_organizations(number=-1, since=None, etag=None, per_page=None)

Iterate over every organization in the order they were created.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1, returns all of them
• since (int) – (optional), last organization id seen (allows restarting an iteration)
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint
• per_page (int) – (optional), number of organizations to list per request

Returns:

generator of organizations

Return type:

ShortOrganization

all_repositories(number=-1, since=None, etag=None, per_page=None)

Iterate over every repository in the order they were created.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1, returns all of them
• since (int) – (optional), last repository id seen (allows restarting an iteration)
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint
• per_page (int) – (optional), number of repositories to list per request

Returns:

generator of repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository

all_users(number=-1, etag=None, per_page=None, since=None)

Iterate over every user in the order they signed up for GitHub.

Changed in version 1.0.0: Inserted the since parameter after the number parameter.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1, returns all of them
• since (int) – (optional), ID of the last user that you’ve seen.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint
• per_page (int) – (optional), number of users to list per request

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

authorization(id_num)

Get information about authorization id.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), unique id of the authorization Returns:Authorization

authorizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over authorizations for the authenticated user.

Note

This will return a 404 if you are using a token for authentication.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of authorizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available authorizations
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of authorizations

Return type:

Authorization

authorize(username, password, scopes=None, note='', note_url='', client_id='', client_secret='')

Obtain an authorization token.

The retrieved token will allow future consumers to use the API without a username and password.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required)
• password (str) – (required)
• scopes (list) – (optional), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’
• note (str) – (optional), note about the authorization
• note_url (str) – (optional), url for the application
• client_id (str) – (optional), 20 character OAuth client key for which to create a token
• client_secret (str) – (optional), 40 character OAuth client secret for which to create the token

Returns:

created authorization

Return type:

Authorization

check_authorization(access_token)

Check an authorization created by a registered application.

OAuth applications can use this method to check token validity without hitting normal rate limits because of failed login attempts. If the token is valid, it will return True, otherwise it will return False.

Returns:True if token is valid, False otherwise Return type:bool

create_gist(description, files, public=True)

Create a new gist.

Changed in version 1.1.0: Per GitHub’s recent announcement authentication is now required for creating gists.

Parameters:

• description (str) – (required), description of gist
• files (dict) – (required), file names with associated dictionaries for content, e.g. {'spam.txt': {'content': 'File contents ...'}}
• public (bool) – (optional), make the gist public if True

Returns:

the created gist if successful, otherwise None

Return type:

created gist

Return type:

Gist

create_issue(owner, repository, title, body=None, assignee=None, milestone=None, labels=[], assignees=None)

Create an issue on the repository.

Note

body, assignee, assignees, milestone, labels are all optional.

Warning

This method retrieves the repository first and then uses it to create an issue. If you’re making several issues, you should use repository and then use create_issue

Parameters:

• owner (str) – (required), login of the owner
• repository (str) – (required), repository name
• title (str) – (required), Title of issue to be created
• body (str) – (optional), The text of the issue, markdown formatted
• assignee (str) – (optional), Login of person to assign the issue to
• assignees – (optional), logins of the users to assign the issue to
• milestone (int) – (optional), id number of the milestone to attribute this issue to (e.g. if m is a Milestone object, m.number is what you pass here.)
• labels (list) – (optional), List of label names.

Returns:

created issue

Return type:

ShortIssue

create_key(title, key, read_only=False)

Create a new key for the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), key title
• key (str) – (required), actual key contents, accepts path as a string or file-like object
• read_only (bool) – (optional), restrict key access to read-only, default to False

Returns:

created key

Return type:

Key

create_repository(name, description='', homepage='', private=False, has_issues=True, has_wiki=True, auto_init=False, gitignore_template='')

Create a repository for the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• name (str) –

  (required), name of the repository

• description (str) – (optional)
• homepage (str) – (optional)
• private (str) – (optional), If True, create a private repository. API default: False
• has_issues (bool) – (optional), If True, enable issues for this repository. API default: True
• has_wiki (bool) – (optional), If True, enable the wiki for this repository. API default: True
• auto_init (bool) – (optional), auto initialize the repository
• gitignore_template (str) – (optional), name of the git template to use; ignored if auto_init = False.

Returns:

created repository

Return type:

Repository

delete_email_addresses(addresses=[])

Delete the specified addresses the authenticated user’s account.

Parameters:addresses (list) – (optional), email addresses to be removed Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

emails(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over email addresses for the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of email addresses to return. Default: -1 returns all available email addresses
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of emails

Return type:

Email

emojis()

Retrieve a dictionary of all of the emojis that GitHub supports.

Returns:dictionary where the key is what would be in between the colons and the value is the URL to the image, e.g.,

{
    '+1': 'https://github.global.ssl.fastly.net/images/...',
    # ...
}

feeds()

List GitHub’s timeline resources in Atom format.

Returns:dictionary parsed to include URITemplates Return type:dict

follow(username)

Make the authenticated user follow the provided username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), user to follow Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

followed_by(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over users being followed by username.

New in version 1.0.0: This replaces iter_following(‘sigmavirus24’).

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of the user to check
• number (int) – (optional), number of people to return. Default: -1 returns all people you follow
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

followers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over followers of the authenticated user.

New in version 1.0.0: This replaces iter_followers().

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all followers
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of followers

Return type:

ShortUser

followers_of(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over followers of username.

New in version 1.0.0: This replaces iter_followers(‘sigmavirus24’).

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of the user to check
• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all followers
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of followers

Return type:

ShortUser

following(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over users the authenticated user is following.

New in version 1.0.0: This replaces iter_following().

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of people to return. Default: -1 returns all people you follow
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

gist(id_num)

Retrieve the gist using the specified id number.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), unique id of the gist Returns:the gist identified by id_num Return type:Gist

gists(number=-1, etag=None)

Retrieve the authenticated user’s gists.

New in version 1.0.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of gists to return. Default: -1, returns all available gists
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of short gists

Return type:

:class:~github3.gists.ShortGist`

gists_by(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the gists owned by a user.

New in version 1.0.

Parameters:

• username (str) – login of the user who owns the gists
• number (int) – (optional), number of gists to return. Default: -1 returns all available gists
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of short gists owned by the specified user

Return type:

ShortGist

gitignore_template(language)

Return the template for language.

Returns:the template string Return type:str

gitignore_templates()

Return the list of available templates.

Returns:list of template names Return type:[str]

is_following(username)

Check if the authenticated user is following login.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), login of the user to check if the authenticated user is checking Returns:True if following, False otherwise Return type:bool

is_starred(username, repo)

Check if the authenticated user starred username/repo.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), owner of repository
• repo (str) – (required), name of repository

Returns:

True if starred, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

issue(username, repository, number)

Fetch issue from owner/repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), owner of the repository
• repository (str) – (required), name of the repository
• number (int) – (required), issue number

Returns:

the issue

Return type:

Issue

issues(filter='', state='', labels='', sort='', direction='', since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List all of the authenticated user’s (and organization’s) issues.

Changed in version 0.9.0:

• The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

Parameters:

• filter (str) – accepted values: (‘assigned’, ‘created’, ‘mentioned’, ‘subscribed’) api-default: ‘assigned’
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’) api-default: ‘open’
• labels (str) – comma-separated list of label names, e.g., ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort (str) – accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) api-default: desc
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1 returns all issues
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of issues

Return type:

ShortIssue

issues_on(username, repository, milestone=None, state=None, assignee=None, mentioned=None, labels=None, sort=None, direction=None, since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List issues on owner/repository.

Only owner and repository are required.

Changed in version 0.9.0:

• The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

Parameters:

• username (str) – login of the owner of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository
• milestone (int) – None, ‘*’, or ID of milestone
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’) api-default: ‘open’
• assignee (str) – ‘*’ or login of the user
• mentioned (str) – login of the user
• labels (str) – comma-separated list of label names, e.g., ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort (str) – accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) api-default: desc
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1 returns all issues
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of issues

Return type:

ShortIssue

key(id_num)

Get the authenticated user’s key specified by id_num.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), unique id of the key Returns:created key Return type:Key

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public keys for the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all your keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of keys

Return type:

Key

license(name)

Retrieve the license specified by the name.

Parameters:name (string) – (required), name of license Returns:the specified license Return type:License

licenses(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over open source licenses.

Returns:generator of short license objects Return type:ShortLicense

login(username=None, password=None, token=None, two_factor_callback=None)

Log the user into GitHub for protected API calls.

Parameters:

• username (str) – login name
• password (str) – password for the login
• token (str) – OAuth token
• two_factor_callback (func) – (optional), function you implement to provide the Two Factor Authentication code to GitHub when necessary

markdown(text, mode='', context='', raw=False)

Render an arbitrary markdown document.

Parameters:

• text (str) – (required), the text of the document to render
• mode (str) – (optional), ‘markdown’ or ‘gfm’
• context (str) – (optional), only important when using mode ‘gfm’, this is the repository to use as the context for the rendering
• raw (bool) – (optional), renders a document like a README.md, no gfm, no context

Returns:

the HTML formatted markdown text

Return type:

str (or unicode on Python 2)

me()

Retrieve the info for the authenticated user.

New in version 1.0: This was separated from the user method.

Returns:the representation of the authenticated user. Return type:AuthenticatedUser

membership_in(organization)

Retrieve the user’s membership in the specified organization.

Parameters:organization (Organization) – the organization or organization login to retrieve the authorized user’s membership in Returns:the user’s membership Return type:Membership

meta()

Retrieve a dictionary with arrays of addresses in CIDR format.

The addresses in CIDR format specify the addresses that the incoming service hooks will originate from.

New in version 0.5.

Returns:CIDR addresses Return type:dict

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

notifications(all=False, participating=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the user’s notification.

Parameters:

• all (bool) – (optional), iterate over all notifications
• participating (bool) – (optional), only iterate over notifications in which the user is participating
• number (int) – (optional), how many notifications to return
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of threads

Return type:

Thread

octocat(say=None)

Return an easter egg of the API.

Params str say:(optional), pass in what you’d like Octocat to say Returns:ascii art of Octocat Return type:str (or unicode on Python 2)

organization(username)

Return an Organization object for the login name.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), login name of the org Returns:the organization Return type:Organization

organization_issues(name, filter='', state='', labels='', sort='', direction='', since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the organization’s issues.

Note

This only works if the authenticated user belongs to it.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the organization
• filter (str) – accepted values: (‘assigned’, ‘created’, ‘mentioned’, ‘subscribed’) api-default: ‘assigned’
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’) api-default: ‘open’
• labels (str) – comma-separated list of label names, e.g., ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort (str) – accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) api-default: desc
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1, returns all available issues
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of issues

Return type:

ShortIssue

organization_memberships(state=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List organizations of which the user is a current or pending member.

Parameters:state (str) – (option), state of the membership, i.e., active, pending Returns:iterator of memberships Return type:Membership

organizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over all organizations the authenticated user belongs to.

This will display both the private memberships and the publicized memberships.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organizations
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of organizations

Return type:

ShortOrganization

organizations_with(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over organizations with username as a public member.

New in version 1.0.0: Replaces iter_orgs('sigmavirus24').

Parameters:

• username (str) – (optional), user whose orgs you wish to list
• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organizations
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of organizations

Return type:

ShortOrganization

project(number)

Return the Project with id number.

Parameters:number (int) – id of the project Returns:the project Return type:Project

project_card(number)

Return the ProjectCard with id number.

Parameters:number (int) – id of the project card Returns:ProjectCard

project_column(number)

Return the ProjectColumn with id number.

Parameters:number (int) – id of the project column Returns:ProjectColumn

public_gists(number=-1, etag=None, since=None)

Retrieve all public gists and iterate over them.

New in version 1.0.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of gists to return. Default: -1 returns all available gists
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), filters out any gists updated before the given time. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z

Returns:

generator of short gists

Return type:

ShortGist

pubsubhubbub(mode, topic, callback, secret='')

Create or update a pubsubhubbub hook.

Parameters:

• mode (str) – (required), accepted values: (‘subscribe’, ‘unsubscribe’)
• topic (str) – (required), form: https://github.com/:user/:repo/events/:event
• callback (str) – (required), the URI that receives the updates
• secret (str) – (optional), shared secret key that generates a SHA1 HMAC of the payload content.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

pull_request(owner, repository, number)

Fetch pull_request #:number: from :owner:/:repository.

Parameters:

• owner (str) – (required), owner of the repository
• repository (str) – (required), name of the repository
• number (int) – (required), issue number

Returns:

PullRequest

rate_limit()

Return a dictionary with information from /rate_limit.

The dictionary has two keys: resources and rate. In resources you can access information about core or search.

Note: the rate key will be deprecated before version 3 of the GitHub API is finalized. Do not rely on that key. Instead, make your code future-proof by using core in resources, e.g.,

rates = g.rate_limit()
rates['resources']['core']  # => your normal ratelimit info
rates['resources']['search']  # => your search ratelimit info

New in version 0.8.

Returns:ratelimit mapping Return type:dict

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

repositories(type=None, sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List repositories for the authenticated user, filterable by type.

Changed in version 0.6: Removed the login parameter for correctness. Use repositories_by instead

Parameters:

• type (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘owner’, ‘public’, ‘private’, ‘member’) API default: ‘all’
• sort (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘pushed’, ‘full_name’) API default: ‘created’
• direction (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’), API default: ‘asc’ when using ‘full_name’, ‘desc’ otherwise
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository

repositories_by(username, type=None, sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List public repositories for the specified username.

New in version 0.6.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), username
• type (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘owner’, ‘member’) API default: ‘all’
• sort (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘pushed’, ‘full_name’) API default: ‘created’
• direction (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’), API default: ‘asc’ when using ‘full_name’, ‘desc’ otherwise
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository

repository(owner, repository)

Retrieve the desired repository.

Parameters:

• owner (str) – (required)
• repository (str) – (required)

Returns:

the repository

Return type:

Repository

repository_with_id(number)

Retrieve the repository with the globally unique id.

Parameters:number (int) – id of the repository Returns:the repository Return type:Repository

revoke_authorization(access_token)

Revoke specified authorization for an OAuth application.

Revoke all authorization tokens created by your application. This will only work if you have already called set_client_id.

Parameters:access_token (str) – (required), the access_token to revoke Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

revoke_authorizations()

Revoke all authorizations for an OAuth application.

Revoke all authorization tokens created by your application. This will only work if you have already called set_client_id.

Parameters:client_id (str) – (required), the client_id of your application Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

search_code(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find code via the code search API.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifiers:

• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the file contents, the file path, or both.
• language Searches code based on the language it’s written in.
• fork Specifies that code from forked repositories should be searched. Repository forks will not be searchable unless the fork has more stars than the parent repository.
• size Finds files that match a certain size (in bytes).
• path Specifies the path that the resulting file must be at.
• extension Matches files with a certain extension.
• user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.

For more information about these qualifiers, see: http://git.io/-DvAuA

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., addClass in:file language:js repo:jquery/jquery
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; option(s): indexed; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/iRmJxg for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1, returns all available repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), previous ETag header value

Returns:

generator of code search results

Return type:

CodeSearchResult

search_issues(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find issues by state and keyword.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifers:

• type With this qualifier you can restrict the search to issues or pull request only.
• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the title, body, comments, or any combination of these.
• author Finds issues created by a certain user.
• assignee Finds issues that are assigned to a certain user.
• mentions Finds issues that mention a certain user.
• commenter Finds issues that a certain user commented on.
• involves Finds issues that were either created by a certain user, assigned to that user, mention that user, or were commented on by that user.
• state Filter issues based on whether they’re open or closed.
• labels Filters issues based on their labels.
• language Searches for issues within repositories that match a certain language.
• created or updated Filters issues based on times of creation, or when they were last updated.
• comments Filters issues based on the quantity of comments.
• user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.

For more information about these qualifiers, see: http://git.io/d1oELA

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., windows label:bug
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; options: created, comments, updated; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/QLQuSQ for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1, returns all available issues
• etag (str) – (optional), previous ETag header value

Returns:

generator of issue search results

Return type:

IssueSearchResult

search_repositories(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find repositories via various criteria.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifers:

• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the repository name, description, readme, or any combination of these.
• size Finds repositories that match a certain size (in kilobytes).
• forks Filters repositories based on the number of forks, and/or whether forked repositories should be included in the results at all.
• created or pushed Filters repositories based on times of creation, or when they were last updated. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Examples: created:<2011, pushed:<2013-02, pushed:>=2013-03-06
• user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.
• language Searches repositories based on the language they’re written in.
• stars Searches repositories based on the number of stars.

For more information about these qualifiers, see: http://git.io/4Z8AkA

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., tetris language:assembly
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; options: stars, forks, updated; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/4ct1eQ for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1, returns all available repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), previous ETag header value

Returns:

generator of repository search results

Return type:

RepositorySearchResult

search_users(query, sort=None, order=None, per_page=None, text_match=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Find users via the Search API.

The query can contain any combination of the following supported qualifers:

• type With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just personal accounts or just organization accounts.
• in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the username, public email, full name, or any combination of these.
• repos Filters users based on the number of repositories they have.
• location Filter users by the location indicated in their profile.
• language Search for users that have repositories that match a certain language.
• created Filter users based on when they joined.
• followers Filter users based on the number of followers they have.

For more information about these qualifiers see: http://git.io/wjVYJw

Parameters:

• query (str) – (required), a valid query as described above, e.g., tom repos:>42 followers:>1000
• sort (str) – (optional), how the results should be sorted; options: followers, repositories, or joined; default: best match
• order (str) – (optional), the direction of the sorted results, options: asc, desc; default: desc
• per_page (int) – (optional)
• text_match (bool) – (optional), if True, return matching search terms. See http://git.io/_V1zRwa for more information
• number (int) – (optional), number of search results to return; Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag header value of the last request.

Returns:

generator of user search results

Return type:

UserSearchResult

set_client_id(id, secret)

Allow the developer to set their OAuth application credentials.

Parameters:

• id (str) – 20-character hexidecimal client_id provided by GitHub
• secret (str) – 40-character hexidecimal client_secret provided by GitHub

set_user_agent(user_agent)

Allow the user to set their own user agent string.

Parameters:user_agent (str) – string used to identify your application. Library default: “github3.py/{version}”, e.g., “github3.py/1.0.0”

star(username, repo)

Star a repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), owner of the repo
• repo (str) – (required), name of the repo

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

starred(sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by the authenticated user.

Changed in version 1.0.0: This was split from iter_starred and requires authentication.

Parameters:

• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository>

starred_by(username, sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by username.

New in version 1.0: This was split from iter_starred and requires the login parameter.

Parameters:

• username (str) – name of user whose stars you want to see
• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository

subscriptions(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository

subscriptions_for(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by username.

Parameters:

• username (str) – name of user whose subscriptions you want to see
• number (int) – (optional), number of repositories to return. Default: -1 returns all repositories
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of subscribed repositories

Return type:

ShortRepository

unfollow(username)

Make the authenticated user stop following username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required) Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

unstar(username, repo)

Unstar username/repo.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), owner of the repo
• repo (str) – (required), name of the repo

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

update_me(name=None, email=None, blog=None, company=None, location=None, hireable=False, bio=None)

Update the profile of the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• name (str) – e.g., ‘John Smith’, not login name
• email (str) – e.g., ‘john.smith@example.com’
• blog (str) – e.g., ‘http://www.example.com/jsmith/blog’
• company (str) –
• location (str) –
• hireable (bool) – defaults to False
• bio (str) – GitHub flavored markdown

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

user(username)

Retrieve a User object for the specified user name.

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user Returns:the user Return type:User

user_issues(filter='', state='', labels='', sort='', direction='', since=None, per_page=None, number=-1, etag=None)

List only the authenticated user’s issues.

Will not list organization’s issues. See organization_issues().

Changed in version 1.0: per_page parameter added before number

Changed in version 0.9.0:

• The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

Parameters:

• filter (str) – accepted values: (‘assigned’, ‘created’, ‘mentioned’, ‘subscribed’) api-default: ‘assigned’
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’) api-default: ‘open’
• labels (str) – comma-separated list of label names, e.g., ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort (str) – accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) api-default: desc
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), number of issues to return. Default: -1 returns all issues
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of issues

Return type:

ShortIssue

user_teams(number=-1, etag=None)

Get the authenticated user’s teams across all of organizations.

List all of the teams across all of the organizations to which the authenticated user belongs. This method requires user or repo scope when authenticating via OAuth.

Returns:generator of teams Return type:ShortTeam

user_with_id(number)

Get the user’s information with id number.

Parameters:number (int) – the user’s id number Returns:the user Return type:User

zen()

Return a quote from the Zen of GitHub.

Yet another API Easter Egg

Returns:the zen of GitHub Return type:str (on Python 3, unicode on Python 2)

Examples

There are some examples of how to get started with this object here.

GitHubEnterprise Object

This has all of the same attributes as the GitHub object so for brevity’s sake, I’m not listing all of it’s inherited members.

class github3.github.GitHubEnterprise(url, username='', password='', token='', verify=True, session=None)

An interface to a specific GitHubEnterprise instance.

For GitHub Enterprise users, this object will act as the public API to your instance. You must provide the URL to your instance upon initialization and can provide the rest of the login details just like in the GitHub object.

There is no need to provide the end of the url (e.g., /api/v3/), that will be taken care of by us.

If you have a self signed SSL for your local github enterprise you can override the validation by passing verify=False.

admin_stats(option)

Retrieve statistics about this GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:option (str) – (required), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘repos’, ‘hooks’, ‘pages’, ‘orgs’, ‘users’, ‘pulls’, ‘issues’, ‘milestones’, ‘gists’, ‘comments’) Returns:the statistics Return type:dict

create_user(login, email)

Create a new user.

Note

This is only available for administrators of the instance.

Parameters:

• login (str) – (required), The user’s username.
• email (str) – (required), The user’s email address.

Returns:

created user

Return type:

ShortUser

GitHubStatus Object

class github3.github.GitHubStatus(session=None)

A sleek interface to the GitHub System Status API.

This will only ever return the JSON objects returned by the API.

api()

Retrieve API status.

last_message()

Retrieve the last message.

messages()

Retrieve all messages.

status()

Retrieve overall status.

Issues API Objects

The following objects represent data returned by the Issues API

Issues

class github3.issues.issue.ShortIssue(json, session)

Object for the shortened representation of an Issue.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about issues based upon how that information is retrieved. Often times, when iterating over several issues, GitHub will return less information. To provide a clear distinction between the types of issues, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

New in version 1.0.0.

This object has the following attributes:

assignee

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: While the API still returns this attribute, it’s not as useful in the context of multiple assignees.

If a user is assigned to this issue, then it will be represented as a ShortUser.

assignees

If users are assigned to this issue, then they will be represented as a list of ShortUser.

body

The markdown formatted text of the issue as writen by the user who opened the issue.

closed_at

If this issue is closed, this will be a datetime object representing the date and time this issue was closed. Otherwise it will be None.

comments_count

The number of comments on this issue.

comments_url

The URL to retrieve the comments on this issue from the API.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time this issue was created.

events_url

The URL to retrieve the events related to this issue from the API.

html_url

The URL to view this issue in a browser.

id

The unique identifier for this issue in GitHub.

labels_urlt

A URITemplate object that can expand to a URL to retrieve the labels on this issue from the API.

locked

A boolean attribute representing whether or not this issue is locked.

milestone

A Milestone object representing the milestone to which this issue was assigned.

number

The number identifying this issue on its parent repository.

original_labels

If any are assigned to this issue, the list of Label objects representing the labels returned by the API for this issue.

pull_request_urls

If present, a dictionary of URLs for retrieving information about the associated pull request for this issue.

state

The current state of this issue, e.g., 'closed' or 'open'.

title

The title for this issue.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this issue was last updated.

user

A ShortUser representing the user who opened this issue.

add_labels(*args)

Add labels to this issue.

Parameters:args (str) – (required), names of the labels you wish to add Returns:list of labels Return type:Label

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

assign(username)

Assign user username to this issue.

This is a short cut for edit().

Parameters:username (str) – username of the person to assign this issue to Returns:True if successful, False, otherwise Return type:bool

close()

Close this issue.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

comment(id_num)

Get a single comment by its id.

The catch here is that id is NOT a simple number to obtain. If you were to look at the comments on issue #15 in sigmavirus24/Todo.txt-python, the first comment’s id is 4150787.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), comment id, see example above Returns:the comment identified by id_num Return type:IssueComment

comments(number=-1, sort='', direction='', since=None)

Iterate over the comments on this issue.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to iterate over Default: -1 returns all comments
• sort (str) – accepted valuees: (‘created’, ‘updated’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) Ignored without the sort parameter
• since (datetime or string) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z

Returns:

iterator of comments

Return type:

IssueComment

create_comment(body)

Create a comment on this issue.

Parameters:body (str) – (required), comment body Returns:the created comment Return type:IssueComment

edit(title=None, body=None, assignee=None, state=None, milestone=None, labels=None, assignees=None)

Edit this issue.

Parameters:

• title (str) – title of the issue
• body (str) – markdown formatted body (description) of the issue
• assignee (str) – login name of user the issue should be assigned to
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• milestone (int) –

  the number (not title) of the milestone to assign this to, or 0 to remove the milestone

  Note

  This is not the milestone’s globally unique identifier, it’s value in number.

• labels (list) – list of labels to apply this to
• assignees (list of strings) – (optional), login of the users to assign the issue to

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

events(number=-1)

Iterate over events associated with this issue only.

Parameters:number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available. Returns:generator of events on this issues Return type:IssueEvent

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

is_closed()

Check if the issue is closed.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

labels(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the labels associated with this issue.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of labels to return. Default: -1 returns all labels applied to this issue.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of labels on this issue

Return type:

Label

lock()

Lock an issue.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

pull_request()

Retrieve the pull request associated with this issue.

Returns:the pull request associated with this issue Return type:PullRequest

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_all_labels()

Remove all labels from this issue.

Returns:the list of current labels (empty) if successful Return type:list

remove_label(name)

Remove label name from this issue.

Parameters:name (str) – (required), name of the label to remove Returns:list of removed labels Return type:Label

reopen()

Re-open a closed issue.

Note

This is a short cut to using edit().

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

replace_labels(labels)

Replace all labels on this issue with labels.

Parameters:labels (list) – label names Returns:list of labels Return type:Label

unlock()

Unlock an issue.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

class github3.issues.issue.Issue(json, session)

Object for the full representation of an Issue.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about issues based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific issue. For example, you would receive this class when calling issue(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of issues, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

Changed in version 1.0.0.

This object has all of the same attributes as a ShortIssue as well as the following:

body_html

The HTML formatted body of this issue.

body_text

The plain-text formatted body of this issue.

closed_by

If the issue is closed, a ShortUser representing the user who closed the issue.

add_labels(*args)

Add labels to this issue.

Parameters:args (str) – (required), names of the labels you wish to add Returns:list of labels Return type:Label

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

assign(username)

Assign user username to this issue.

This is a short cut for edit().

Parameters:username (str) – username of the person to assign this issue to Returns:True if successful, False, otherwise Return type:bool

close()

Close this issue.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

comment(id_num)

Get a single comment by its id.

The catch here is that id is NOT a simple number to obtain. If you were to look at the comments on issue #15 in sigmavirus24/Todo.txt-python, the first comment’s id is 4150787.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), comment id, see example above Returns:the comment identified by id_num Return type:IssueComment

comments(number=-1, sort='', direction='', since=None)

Iterate over the comments on this issue.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to iterate over Default: -1 returns all comments
• sort (str) – accepted valuees: (‘created’, ‘updated’) api-default: created
• direction (str) – accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’) Ignored without the sort parameter
• since (datetime or string) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z

Returns:

iterator of comments

Return type:

IssueComment

create_comment(body)

Create a comment on this issue.

Parameters:body (str) – (required), comment body Returns:the created comment Return type:IssueComment

edit(title=None, body=None, assignee=None, state=None, milestone=None, labels=None, assignees=None)

Edit this issue.

Parameters:

• title (str) – title of the issue
• body (str) – markdown formatted body (description) of the issue
• assignee (str) – login name of user the issue should be assigned to
• state (str) – accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• milestone (int) –

  the number (not title) of the milestone to assign this to, or 0 to remove the milestone

  Note

  This is not the milestone’s globally unique identifier, it’s value in number.

• labels (list) – list of labels to apply this to
• assignees (list of strings) – (optional), login of the users to assign the issue to

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

events(number=-1)

Iterate over events associated with this issue only.

Parameters:number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available. Returns:generator of events on this issues Return type:IssueEvent

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

is_closed()

Check if the issue is closed.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

labels(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the labels associated with this issue.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of labels to return. Default: -1 returns all labels applied to this issue.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of labels on this issue

Return type:

Label

lock()

Lock an issue.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

pull_request()

Retrieve the pull request associated with this issue.

Returns:the pull request associated with this issue Return type:PullRequest

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_all_labels()

Remove all labels from this issue.

Returns:the list of current labels (empty) if successful Return type:list

remove_label(name)

Remove label name from this issue.

Parameters:name (str) – (required), name of the label to remove Returns:list of removed labels Return type:Label

reopen()

Re-open a closed issue.

Note

This is a short cut to using edit().

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

replace_labels(labels)

Replace all labels on this issue with labels.

Parameters:labels (list) – label names Returns:list of labels Return type:Label

unlock()

Unlock an issue.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

Issue Comments

class github3.issues.comment.IssueComment(json, session)

Representation of a comment left on an issue.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/comments/

This object has the following attributes:

author_association

The association of the author (user) with the repository this issue belongs to.

body

The markdown formatted original text written by the author.

body_html

The HTML formatted comment body.

body_text

The plain-text formatted comment body.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this comment was created.

html_url

The URL to view this comment in a browser.

id

The unique identifier for this comment.

issue_url

The URL of the parent issue in the API.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this comment was most recently updated.

user

A ShortUser representing the author of this comment.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this comment.

Returns:bool

edit(body)

Edit this comment.

Parameters:body (str) – (required), new body of the comment, Markdown formatted Returns:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

Issue Events

class github3.issues.event.IssueEvent(json, session)

Representation of an event from a specific issue.

This object will be instantiated from calling events() which calls https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/events/#list-events-for-an-issue

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/events

This object has the following attributes:

actor

A ShortUser representing the user who generated this event.

commit_id

The string SHA of a commit that referenced the parent issue. If there was no commit referencing this issue, then this will be None.

commit_url

The URL to retrieve commit information from the API for the commit that references the parent issue. If there was no commit, this will be None.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time this event occurred.

event

The issue-specific action that generated this event. Some examples are:

• closed
• reopened
• subscribed
• merged
• referenced
• mentioned
• assigned

See this list of events for a full listing.

id

The unique identifier for this event.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

class github3.issues.event.RepositoryIssueEvent(json, session)

Representation of an issue event on the repository level.

This object will be instantiated from calling issue_events() or issue_events() which call https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/events/#list-events-for-a-repository

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/events

This object has all of the attributes of IssueEvent and the following:

issue

A ShortIssue representing the issue where this event originated from.

Issue Labels

class github3.issues.label.Label(json, session)

A representation of a label object defined on a repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/labels/

This object has the following attributes:

.. attribute:: color

The hexadecimeal representation of the background color of this label.

name

The name (display label) for this label.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this label.

Returns:True if successfully deleted, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

update(name, color)

Update this label.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), new name of the label
• color (str) – (required), color code, e.g., 626262, no leading ‘#’

Returns:

True if successfully updated, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Milestone Objects

class github3.issues.milestone.Milestone(json, session)

Representation of milestones on a repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/milestones/

This object has the following attributes:

closed_issues_count

The number of closed issues in this milestone.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this milestone was created.

creator

If present, a ShortUser representing the user who created this milestone.

description

The written description of this milestone and its purpose.

due_on

If set, a datetime object representing the date and time when this milestone is due.

id

The unique identifier of this milestone in GitHub.

number

The repository-local numeric identifier of this milestone. This starts at 1 like issues.

open_issues_count

The number of open issues still in this milestone.

state

The state of this milestone, e.g., 'open' or 'closed'.

title

The title of this milestone.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this milestone was last updated.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this milestone.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

labels(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the labels of every associated issue.

Changed in version 0.9: Add etag parameter.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of labels to return. Default: -1 returns all available labels.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag header from a previous response

Returns:

generator of labels

Return type:

Label

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

update(title=None, state=None, description=None, due_on=None)

Update this milestone.

All parameters are optional, but it makes no sense to omit all of them at once.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (optional), new title of the milestone
• state (str) – (optional), (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• description (str) – (optional)
• due_on (str) – (optional), ISO 8601 time format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Notifications

This part of the documentation covers the notifications module which contains all of the classes used to represent notification objects in github3.py.

Notification Objects

class github3.notifications.Thread(json, session)

Object representing a notification thread.

Changed in version 1.0.0: The comment, thread, and url attributes are no longer present because GitHub stopped returning the comment that caused the notification.

The is_unread method was removed since it just returned the unread attribute.

This object has the following attributes:

id

The unique identifier for this notification across all GitHub notifications.

last_read_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when the authenticated user last read this thread.

reason

The reason the authenticated user is receiving this notification.

repository

A ShortRepository this thread originated on.

subject

A dictionary with the subject of the notification, for example, which issue, pull request, or diff this is in relation to.

unread

A boolean attribute indicating whether this thread has been read or not.

updated_at

A datetime representing the date and time when this thread was last updated.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/activity/notifications/

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete_subscription()

Delete subscription for this thread.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

mark()

Mark the thread as read.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

set_subscription(subscribed, ignored)

Set the user’s subscription for this thread.

Parameters:

• subscribed (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be received from this thread.
• ignored (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be ignored from this thread.

Returns:

new subscription

Return type:

ThreadSubscription

subscription()

Check the status of the user’s subscription to this thread.

Returns:the subscription for this thread Return type:ThreadSubscription

class github3.notifications.ThreadSubscription(json, session)

This object provides a representation of a thread subscription.

See also: developer.github.com/v3/activity/notifications/#get-a-thread-subscription

Changed in version 1.0.0: The is_ignored and is_subscribed methods were removed. Use the :attr`ignored` and subscribed attributes instead.

This object has the following attributes:

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time the user was subscribed to the thread.

ignored

A boolean attribute indicating whether the user ignored this.

reason

The reason the user is subscribed to the thread.

subscribed

A boolean attribute indicating whether the user is subscribed or not.

thread_url

The URL of the thread resource in the GitHub API.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this subscription.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

set(subscribed, ignored)

Set the user’s subscription for this subscription.

Parameters:

• subscribed (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be received from this thread.
• ignored (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be ignored from this thread.

class github3.notifications.RepositorySubscription(json, session)

This object provides a representation of a thread subscription.

See also: developer.github.com/v3/activity/notifications/#get-a-thread-subscription

Changed in version 1.0.0: The is_ignored and is_subscribed methods were removed. Use the :attr`ignored` and subscribed attributes instead.

This object has the following attributes:

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time the user was subscribed to the thread.

ignored

A boolean attribute indicating whether the user ignored this.

reason

The reason the user is subscribed to the thread.

repository_url

The URL of the repository resource in the GitHub API.

subscribed

A boolean attribute indicating whether the user is subscribed or not.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this subscription.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

set(subscribed, ignored)

Set the user’s subscription for this subscription.

Parameters:

• subscribed (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be received from this thread.
• ignored (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be ignored from this thread.

Organizations and their Related Objects

This section of the documentation covers the objects that represent data returned by the API for organizations.

Team Objects

class github3.orgs.ShortTeam(json, session)

Object representing a team in the GitHub API.

id

Unique identifier for this team across all of GitHub.

members_count

The number of members in this team.

members_urlt

A URITemplate instance to either retrieve all members in this team or to test if a user is a member.

name

The human-readable name provided to this team.

permission

The level of permissions this team has, e.g., push, pull, or admin.

repos_count

The number of repositories this team can access.

repositories_url

The URL of the resource to enumerate all repositories this team can access.

slug

The handle for this team or the portion you would use in an at-mention after the /, e.g., in @myorg/myteam the slug is myteam.

Please see GitHub’s Team Documentation for more information.

add_member(username)

Add username to this team.

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use add_or_update_membership() instead.

Parameters:username (str) – the username of the user you would like to add to this team. Returns:True if successfully added, False otherwise Return type:bool

add_or_update_membership(username, role='member')

Add or update the user’s membership in this team.

This returns a dictionary like so:

{
    'state': 'pending',
    'url': 'https://api.github.com/teams/...',
    'role': 'member',
}

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of user whose membership is being modified
• role (str) – (optional), the role the user should have once their membership has been modified. Options: ‘member’, ‘maintainer’. Default: ‘member’

Returns:

dictionary of the invitation response

Return type:

dict

add_repository(repository, permission='')

Add repository to this team.

If a permission is not provided, the team’s default permission will be assigned, by GitHub.

Parameters:

• repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’
• permission (str) – (optional), (‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘admin’)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this team.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

edit(name, permission='')

Edit this team.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), the new name of this team
• permission (str) – (optional), one of (‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘admin’)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

has_repository(repository)

Check if this team has access to repository.

Parameters:repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’ Returns:True if the team can access the repository, False otherwise Return type:bool

invite(username)

Invite the user to join this team.

Deprecated since version 1.2.0: Use add_or_update_membership() instead.

This returns a dictionary like so:

{'state': 'pending', 'url': 'https://api.github.com/teams/...'}

Parameters:username (str) – (required), login of user to invite to join this team. Returns:dictionary of the invitation response Return type:dict

is_member(username)

Check if login is a member of this team.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username name of the user Returns:True if the user is a member, False otherwise Return type:bool

members(role=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the members of this team.

Parameters:

• role (str) – (optional), filter members returned by their role in the team. Can be one of: "member", "maintainer", "all". Default: "all".
• number (int) – (optional), number of users to iterate over. Default: -1 iterates over all values
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of the members of this team

Return type:

ShortUser

membership_for(username)

Retrieve the membership information for the user.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), name of the user Returns:dictionary with the membership Return type:dict

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_member(username)

Remove username from this team.

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use revoke_membership() instead.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username of the member to remove Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

remove_repository(repository)

Remove repository from this team.

Parameters:repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’ Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

repositories(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the repositories this team has access to.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of repos to iterate over. Default: -1 iterates over all values
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories this team has access to

Return type:

ShortRepository

revoke_membership(username)

Revoke this user’s team membership.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), name of the team member Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

class github3.orgs.Team(json, session)

Object representing a team in the GitHub API.

In addition to the attributes on a ShortTeam a Team has the following attribute:

created_at

A datetime instance representing the time and date when this team was created.

members_count

The number of members in this team.

organization

A ShortOrganization representing the organization this team belongs to.

repos_count

The number of repositories this team can access.

updated_at

A datetime instance representing the time and date when this team was updated.

Please see GitHub’s Team Documentation for more information.

add_member(username)

Add username to this team.

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use add_or_update_membership() instead.

Parameters:username (str) – the username of the user you would like to add to this team. Returns:True if successfully added, False otherwise Return type:bool

add_or_update_membership(username, role='member')

Add or update the user’s membership in this team.

This returns a dictionary like so:

{
    'state': 'pending',
    'url': 'https://api.github.com/teams/...',
    'role': 'member',
}

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login of user whose membership is being modified
• role (str) – (optional), the role the user should have once their membership has been modified. Options: ‘member’, ‘maintainer’. Default: ‘member’

Returns:

dictionary of the invitation response

Return type:

dict

add_repository(repository, permission='')

Add repository to this team.

If a permission is not provided, the team’s default permission will be assigned, by GitHub.

Parameters:

• repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’
• permission (str) – (optional), (‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘admin’)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this team.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

edit(name, permission='')

Edit this team.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), the new name of this team
• permission (str) – (optional), one of (‘pull’, ‘push’, ‘admin’)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

has_repository(repository)

Check if this team has access to repository.

Parameters:repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’ Returns:True if the team can access the repository, False otherwise Return type:bool

invite(username)

Invite the user to join this team.

Deprecated since version 1.2.0: Use add_or_update_membership() instead.

This returns a dictionary like so:

{'state': 'pending', 'url': 'https://api.github.com/teams/...'}

Parameters:username (str) – (required), login of user to invite to join this team. Returns:dictionary of the invitation response Return type:dict

is_member(username)

Check if login is a member of this team.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username name of the user Returns:True if the user is a member, False otherwise Return type:bool

members(role=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the members of this team.

Parameters:

• role (str) – (optional), filter members returned by their role in the team. Can be one of: "member", "maintainer", "all". Default: "all".
• number (int) – (optional), number of users to iterate over. Default: -1 iterates over all values
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of the members of this team

Return type:

ShortUser

membership_for(username)

Retrieve the membership information for the user.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), name of the user Returns:dictionary with the membership Return type:dict

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_member(username)

Remove username from this team.

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use revoke_membership() instead.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username of the member to remove Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

remove_repository(repository)

Remove repository from this team.

Parameters:repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’ Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

repositories(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the repositories this team has access to.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of repos to iterate over. Default: -1 iterates over all values
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories this team has access to

Return type:

ShortRepository

revoke_membership(username)

Revoke this user’s team membership.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), name of the team member Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

class github3.orgs.Membership(json, session)

Object describing a user’s membership in teams and organizations.

organization

A ShortOrganization instance representing the organization this membership is part of.

organization_url

The URL of the organization resource in the API that this membership is part of.

state

The state of this membership, e.g., active or pending.

active

Warning

This is a computed attribute, it is not returned by the API.

A boolean attribute equivalent to self.state.lower() == 'active'.

pending

Warning

This is a computed attribute, it is not returned by the API.

A boolean attribute equivalent to self.state.lower() == 'pending'.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

edit(state)

Edit the user’s membership.

Parameters:state (str) – (required), the state the membership should be in. Only accepts "active". Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

Organization Objects

class github3.orgs.ShortOrganization(json, session)

Object for the shortened representation of an Organization.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about orgs based upon how that information is retrieved. Often times, when iterating over several orgs, GitHub will return less information. To provide a clear distinction between the types of orgs, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

New in version 1.0.0.

avatar_url

The URL of the avatar image for this organization.

description

The user-provided description of this organization.

events_url

The URL to retrieve the events related to this organization.

hooks_url

The URL for the resource to manage organization hooks.

id

The unique identifier for this organization across GitHub.

issues_url

The URL to retrieve the issues across this organization’s repositories.

login

The unique username of the organization.

members_url

The URL to retrieve the members of this organization.

public_members_urlt

A uritemplate.URITemplate that can be expanded to either list the public members of this organization or verify a user is a public member.

repos_url

The URL to retrieve the repositories in this organization.

url

The URL to retrieve this organization from the GitHub API.

type

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: This will be removed in a future release.

Previously returned by the API to indicate the type of the account.

add_member(username, team_id)

Add username to team and thereby to this organization.

Warning

This method is no longer valid. To add a member to a team, you must now retrieve the team directly, and use the invite method.

Warning

This method is no longer valid. To add a member to a team, you must now retrieve the team directly, and use the invite method.

Any user that is to be added to an organization, must be added to a team as per the GitHub api.

Changed in version 1.0: The second parameter used to be team but has been changed to team_id. This parameter is now required to be an integer to improve performance of this method.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login name of the user to be added
• team_id (int) – (required), team id

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

add_or_update_membership(username, role='member')

Add a member or update their role.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), user to add or update.
• role (str) – (optional), role to give to the user. Options are member, admin. Defaults to member.

Returns:

the created or updated membership

Return type:

Membership

Raises:

ValueError if role is not a valid choice

add_repository(repository, team_id)

Add repository to team.

Changed in version 1.0: The second parameter used to be team but has been changed to team_id. This parameter is now required to be an integer to improve performance of this method.

Parameters:

• repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’
• team_id (int) – (required), team id

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

all_events(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over all org events visible to the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), the username of the currently authenticated user.
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 iterates over all events available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

conceal_member(username)

Conceal username’s membership in this organization.

Parameters:username (str) – username of the organization member to conceal Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

create_project(name, body='')

Create a project for this organization.

If the client is authenticated and a member of the organization, this will create a new project in the organization.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the project
• body (str) – (optional), the body of the project

Returns:

the new project

Return type:

Project

create_repository(name, description='', homepage='', private=False, has_issues=True, has_wiki=True, team_id=0, auto_init=False, gitignore_template='', license_template='')

Create a repository for this organization.

If the client is authenticated and a member of the organization, this will create a new repository in the organization.

name should be no longer than 100 characters

Parameters:

• name (str) –

  (required), name of the repository

  Warning

  this should be no longer than 100 characters

• description (str) – (optional)
• homepage (str) – (optional)
• private (bool) – (optional), If True, create a private repository. API default: False
• has_issues (bool) – (optional), If True, enable issues for this repository. API default: True
• has_wiki (bool) – (optional), If True, enable the wiki for this repository. API default: True
• team_id (int) – (optional), id of the team that will be granted access to this repository
• auto_init (bool) – (optional), auto initialize the repository.
• gitignore_template (str) – (optional), name of the template; this is ignored if auto_int is False.
• license_template (str) – (optional), name of the license; this is ignored if auto_int is False.

Returns:

the created repository

Return type:

Repository

create_team(name, repo_names=[], permission='pull')

Create a new team and return it.

This only works if the authenticated user owns this organization.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name to be given to the team
• repo_names (list) – (optional) repositories, e.g. [‘github/dotfiles’]
• permission (str) –

  (optional), options:

  • pull – (default) members can not push or administer

    repositories accessible by this team

  • push – members can push and pull but not administer

    repositories accessible by this team

  • admin – members can push, pull and administer

    repositories accessible by this team

Returns:

the created team

Return type:

Team

edit(billing_email=None, company=None, email=None, location=None, name=None)

Edit this organization.

Parameters:

• billing_email (str) – (optional) Billing email address (private)
• company (str) – (optional)
• email (str) – (optional) Public email address
• location (str) – (optional)
• name (str) – (optional)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public events for this org (deprecated).

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use public_events() instead.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 iterates over all events available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

invitations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over outstanding invitations to this organization.

Returns:generator of invitation objects Return type:Invitation

invite(team_ids, invitee_id=None, email=None, role='direct_member')

Invite the user to join this organization.

Parameters:

• team_ids (list[int]) – (required), list of team identifiers to invite the user to
• invitee_id (int) – (required if email is not specified), the identifier for the user being invited
• email (str) – (required if invitee_id is not specified), the email address of the user being invited
• role (str) – (optional) role to provide to the invited user. Must be one of

Returns:

the created invitation

Return type:

Invitation

is_member(username)

Check if the user named username is a member.

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user you’d like to check Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

is_public_member(username)

Check if the user named username is a public member.

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user you’d like to check Returns:True if the user is a public member, False otherwise Return type:bool

members(filter=None, role=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over members of this organization.

Parameters:

• filter (str) – (optional), filter members returned by this method. Can be one of: "2fa_disabled", "all",. Default: "all". Filtering by "2fa_disabled" is only available for organization owners with private repositories.
• role (str) – (optional), filter members returned by their role. Can be one of: "all", "admin", "member". Default: "all".
• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of members of this organization

Return type:

ShortUser

membership_for(username)

Obtain the membership status of username.

Implements https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/members/#get-organization-membership

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username name of the user Returns:the membership information Return type:Membership

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

project(id, etag=None)

Return the organization project with the given ID.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), ID number of the project Returns:requested project Return type:Project

projects(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over projects for this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of organization projects

Return type:

Project

public_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public events for this org.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 iterates over all events available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of public events

Return type:

Event

public_members(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public members of this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of public members

Return type:

ShortUser

publicize_member(username)

Make username’s membership in this organization public.

Parameters:username (str) – the name of the user whose membership you wish to publicize Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_member(username)

Remove the user named username from this organization.

Note

Only a user may publicize their own membership. See also: https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/members/#publicize-a-users-membership

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user to remove from the org Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

remove_membership(username)

Remove username from this organization.

Unlike remove_member, this will cancel a pending invitation.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username of the member to remove Returns:bool

remove_repository(repository, team_id)

Remove repository from the team with team_id.

Parameters:

• repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’
• team_id (int) – (required), the unique identifier of the team

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

repositories(type='', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repos for this organization.

Parameters:

• type (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘public’, ‘member’, ‘private’, ‘forks’, ‘sources’), API default: ‘all’
• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories in this organization

Return type:

Repository

team(team_id)

Return the team specified by team_id.

Parameters:team_id (int) – (required), unique id for the team Returns:the team identified by the id in this organization Return type:Team

teams(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over teams that are part of this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of teams to return. Default: -1 returns all available teams.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of this organization’s teams

Return type:

ShortTeam

class github3.orgs.Organization(json, session)

Object for the full representation of a Organization.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about orgs based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific org. For example, you would receive this class when calling organization(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of orgs, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

Changed in version 1.0.0.

This object includes all attributes on ShortOrganization as well as the following:

blog

If set, the URL of this organization’s blog.

company

The name of the company that is associated with this organization.

created_at

A datetime instance representing the time and date when this organization was created.

email

The email address associated with this organization.

followers_count

The number of users following this organization. Organizations no longer have followers so this number will always be 0.

following_count

The number of users this organization follows. Organizations no longer follow users so this number will always be 0.

html_url

The URL used to view this organization in a browser.

location

The location of this organization, e.g., New York, NY.

name

The display name of this organization.

public_repos_count

The number of public repositories owned by thi sorganization.

add_member(username, team_id)

Add username to team and thereby to this organization.

Warning

This method is no longer valid. To add a member to a team, you must now retrieve the team directly, and use the invite method.

Warning

This method is no longer valid. To add a member to a team, you must now retrieve the team directly, and use the invite method.

Any user that is to be added to an organization, must be added to a team as per the GitHub api.

Changed in version 1.0: The second parameter used to be team but has been changed to team_id. This parameter is now required to be an integer to improve performance of this method.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), login name of the user to be added
• team_id (int) – (required), team id

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

add_or_update_membership(username, role='member')

Add a member or update their role.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), user to add or update.
• role (str) – (optional), role to give to the user. Options are member, admin. Defaults to member.

Returns:

the created or updated membership

Return type:

Membership

Raises:

ValueError if role is not a valid choice

add_repository(repository, team_id)

Add repository to team.

Changed in version 1.0: The second parameter used to be team but has been changed to team_id. This parameter is now required to be an integer to improve performance of this method.

Parameters:

• repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’
• team_id (int) – (required), team id

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

all_events(username, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over all org events visible to the authenticated user.

Parameters:

• username (str) – (required), the username of the currently authenticated user.
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 iterates over all events available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

conceal_member(username)

Conceal username’s membership in this organization.

Parameters:username (str) – username of the organization member to conceal Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

create_project(name, body='')

Create a project for this organization.

If the client is authenticated and a member of the organization, this will create a new project in the organization.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the project
• body (str) – (optional), the body of the project

Returns:

the new project

Return type:

Project

create_repository(name, description='', homepage='', private=False, has_issues=True, has_wiki=True, team_id=0, auto_init=False, gitignore_template='', license_template='')

Create a repository for this organization.

If the client is authenticated and a member of the organization, this will create a new repository in the organization.

name should be no longer than 100 characters

Parameters:

• name (str) –

  (required), name of the repository

  Warning

  this should be no longer than 100 characters

• description (str) – (optional)
• homepage (str) – (optional)
• private (bool) – (optional), If True, create a private repository. API default: False
• has_issues (bool) – (optional), If True, enable issues for this repository. API default: True
• has_wiki (bool) – (optional), If True, enable the wiki for this repository. API default: True
• team_id (int) – (optional), id of the team that will be granted access to this repository
• auto_init (bool) – (optional), auto initialize the repository.
• gitignore_template (str) – (optional), name of the template; this is ignored if auto_int is False.
• license_template (str) – (optional), name of the license; this is ignored if auto_int is False.

Returns:

the created repository

Return type:

Repository

create_team(name, repo_names=[], permission='pull')

Create a new team and return it.

This only works if the authenticated user owns this organization.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name to be given to the team
• repo_names (list) – (optional) repositories, e.g. [‘github/dotfiles’]
• permission (str) –

  (optional), options:

  • pull – (default) members can not push or administer

    repositories accessible by this team

  • push – members can push and pull but not administer

    repositories accessible by this team

  • admin – members can push, pull and administer

    repositories accessible by this team

Returns:

the created team

Return type:

Team

edit(billing_email=None, company=None, email=None, location=None, name=None)

Edit this organization.

Parameters:

• billing_email (str) – (optional) Billing email address (private)
• company (str) – (optional)
• email (str) – (optional) Public email address
• location (str) – (optional)
• name (str) – (optional)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public events for this org (deprecated).

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use public_events() instead.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 iterates over all events available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

invitations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over outstanding invitations to this organization.

Returns:generator of invitation objects Return type:Invitation

invite(team_ids, invitee_id=None, email=None, role='direct_member')

Invite the user to join this organization.

Parameters:

• team_ids (list[int]) – (required), list of team identifiers to invite the user to
• invitee_id (int) – (required if email is not specified), the identifier for the user being invited
• email (str) – (required if invitee_id is not specified), the email address of the user being invited
• role (str) – (optional) role to provide to the invited user. Must be one of

Returns:

the created invitation

Return type:

Invitation

is_member(username)

Check if the user named username is a member.

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user you’d like to check Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

is_public_member(username)

Check if the user named username is a public member.

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user you’d like to check Returns:True if the user is a public member, False otherwise Return type:bool

members(filter=None, role=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over members of this organization.

Parameters:

• filter (str) – (optional), filter members returned by this method. Can be one of: "2fa_disabled", "all",. Default: "all". Filtering by "2fa_disabled" is only available for organization owners with private repositories.
• role (str) – (optional), filter members returned by their role. Can be one of: "all", "admin", "member". Default: "all".
• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of members of this organization

Return type:

ShortUser

membership_for(username)

Obtain the membership status of username.

Implements https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/members/#get-organization-membership

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username name of the user Returns:the membership information Return type:Membership

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

project(id, etag=None)

Return the organization project with the given ID.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), ID number of the project Returns:requested project Return type:Project

projects(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over projects for this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of organization projects

Return type:

Project

public_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public events for this org.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 iterates over all events available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of public events

Return type:

Event

public_members(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over public members of this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of public members

Return type:

ShortUser

publicize_member(username)

Make username’s membership in this organization public.

Parameters:username (str) – the name of the user whose membership you wish to publicize Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

remove_member(username)

Remove the user named username from this organization.

Note

Only a user may publicize their own membership. See also: https://developer.github.com/v3/orgs/members/#publicize-a-users-membership

Parameters:username (str) – name of the user to remove from the org Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

remove_membership(username)

Remove username from this organization.

Unlike remove_member, this will cancel a pending invitation.

Parameters:username (str) – (required), username of the member to remove Returns:bool

remove_repository(repository, team_id)

Remove repository from the team with team_id.

Parameters:

• repository (str) – (required), form: ‘user/repo’
• team_id (int) – (required), the unique identifier of the team

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

repositories(type='', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repos for this organization.

Parameters:

• type (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘public’, ‘member’, ‘private’, ‘forks’, ‘sources’), API default: ‘all’
• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repositories in this organization

Return type:

Repository

team(team_id)

Return the team specified by team_id.

Parameters:team_id (int) – (required), unique id for the team Returns:the team identified by the id in this organization Return type:Team

teams(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over teams that are part of this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of teams to return. Default: -1 returns all available teams.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of this organization’s teams

Return type:

ShortTeam

Pull Requests and their Associated Objects

This section of the documentation covers the representations of various objects related to the Pull Requests API.

Pull Request Objects

class github3.pulls.ShortPullRequest(json, session)

Object for the shortened representation of a PullRequest.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about prs based upon how that information is retrieved. Often times, when iterating over several prs, GitHub will return less information. To provide a clear distinction between the types of Pull Requests, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

New in version 1.0.0.

The attributes available on this object are:

url

The URL that describes this exact pull request.

assignee

Deprecated since version 1.0.0: Use assignees instead.

The assignee of the pull request, if present, represented as an instance of ShortUser

assignees

New in version 1.0.0.

A list of the assignees of the pull request. If not empty, a list of instances of ShortUser.

base

A Base object representing the base pull request destination.

body

The Markdown formatted body of the pull request message.

body_html

The HTML formatted body of the pull request mesage.

body_text

The plain-text formatted body of the pull request message.

closed_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this pull request was closed.

comments_url

The URL to retrieve the comments on this pull request from the API.

commits_url

The URL to retrieve the commits in this pull request from the API.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this pull request was created.

diff_url

The URL to retrieve the diff for this pull request via the API.

head

A Head object representing the head pull request destination.

html_url

The URL one would use to view this pull request in the browser.

id

The unique ID of this pull request across all of GitHub.

issue_url

The URL of the resource that represents this pull request as an issue.

links

A dictionary provided by _links in the API response.

New in version 1.0.0.

merge_commit_sha

If unmerged, holds the sha of the commit to test mergability. If merged, holds commit sha of the merge commit, squashed commit on the base branch or the commit that the base branch was updated to after rebasing the PR.

merged_at

A datetime object representing the date and time this pull request was merged. If this pull request has not been merged then this attribute will be None.

number

The number of the pull request on the repository.

patch_url

The URL to retrieve the patch for this pull request via the API.

repository

A ShortRepository from the base instance.

review_comment_urlt

A URITemplate instance that expands to provide the review comment URL provided a number.

review_comments_url

The URl to retrieve all review comments on this pull request from the API.

state

The current state of this pull request.

title

The title of this pull request.

updated_at

A datetime instance representing the date and time when this pull request was last updated.

user

A ShortUser instance representing who opened this pull request.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

close()

Close this Pull Request without merging.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

commits(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the commits on this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of commits to return. Default: -1 returns all available commits.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repository commit objects

Return type:

ShortCommit

create_comment(body)

Create a comment on this pull request’s issue.

Parameters:body (str) – (required), comment body Returns:the comment that was created on the pull request Return type:IssueComment

create_review(body, commit_id=None, event=None, comments=None)

Create a review comment on this pull request.

Warning

If you do not specify event, GitHub will default it to PENDING which means that your review will need to be submitted after creation. (See also submit().)

Parameters:

• body (str) – The comment text itself, required when using COMMENT or REQUEST_CHANGES.
• commit_id (str) – The SHA of the commit to comment on
• event (str) – The review action you want to perform. Actions include APPROVE, REQUEST_CHANGES or COMMENT. By leaving this blank you set the action to PENDING and will need to submit the review. Leaving blank may result in a 422 error response which will need to be handled.
• comments (list) –

  Array of draft review comment objects. Please see Github’s Create a pull request review documentation for details on review comment objects. At the time of writing these were a dictionary with 3 keys: path, position and body.

Returns:

The created review.

Return type:

PullReview

create_review_comment(body, commit_id, path, position)

Create a review comment on this pull request.

Note

All parameters are required by the GitHub API.

Parameters:

• body (str) – The comment text itself
• commit_id (str) – The SHA of the commit to comment on
• path (str) – The relative path of the file to comment on
• position (int) – The line index in the diff to comment on.

Returns:

The created review comment.

Return type:

ReviewComment

diff()

Return the diff.

Returns:representation of the diff Return type:bytes

files(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the files associated with this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of files to return. Default: -1 returns all available files.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of pull request files

Return type:

PullFile

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

is_merged()

Check to see if the pull request was merged.

Changed in version 1.0.0: This now always makes a call to the GitHub API. To avoid that, check merged before making this call.

Returns:True if merged, False otherwise Return type:bool

issue()

Retrieve the issue associated with this pull request.

Returns:the issue object that this pull request builds upon Return type:Issue

issue_comments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the issue comments on this pull request.

In this case, GitHub leaks implementation details. Pull Requests are really just Issues with a diff. As such, comments on a pull request that are not in-line with code, are technically issue comments.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all available comments.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of non-review comments on this pull request

Return type:

IssueComment

merge(commit_message=None, sha=None, merge_method='merge')

Merge this pull request.

Changed in version 1.0.0: The boolean squash parameter has been replaced with merge_method which requires a string.

Parameters:

• commit_message (str) – (optional), message to be used for the merge commit
• sha (str) – (optional), SHA that pull request head must match to merge.
• merge_method (str) – (optional), Change the merge method. Either ‘merge’, ‘squash’ or ‘rebase’. Default is ‘merge’.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Returns:

bool

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

patch()

Return the patch.

Returns:bytestring representation of the patch Return type:bytes

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

reopen()

Re-open a closed Pull Request.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

review_comments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the review comments on this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all available comments.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of review comments

Return type:

ReviewComment

reviews(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the reviews associated with this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of reviews to return. Default: -1 returns all available files.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of reviews for this pull request

Return type:

PullReview

update(title=None, body=None, state=None, base=None, maintainer_can_modify=None)

Update this pull request.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (optional), title of the pull
• body (str) – (optional), body of the pull request
• state (str) – (optional), one of (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• base (str) – (optional), Name of the branch on the current repository that the changes should be pulled into.
• maintainer_can_modify (bool) – (optional), Indicates whether a maintainer is allowed to modify the pull request or not.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

class github3.pulls.PullRequest(json, session)

Object for the full representation of a PullRequest.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about prs based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific pr. For example, you would receive this class when calling pull_request(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of prs, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

Changed in version 1.0.0.

This object has all of the same attributes as ShortPullRequest as well as the following:

additions_count

The number of lines of code added in this pull request.

deletions_count

The number of lines of code deleted in this pull request.

comments_count

The number of comments left on this pull request.

commits_count

The number of commits included in this pull request.

mergeable

A boolean attribute indicating whether GitHub deems this pull request is mergeable.

mergeable_state

A string indicating whether this would be a ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ merge.

merged

A boolean attribute indicating whether the pull request has been merged or not.

merged_by

An instance of ShortUser to indicate the user who merged this pull request. If this hasn’t been merged or if mergeable is still being decided by GitHub this will be None.

review_comments_count

The number of review comments on this pull request.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

close()

Close this Pull Request without merging.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

commits(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the commits on this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of commits to return. Default: -1 returns all available commits.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of repository commit objects

Return type:

ShortCommit

create_comment(body)

Create a comment on this pull request’s issue.

Parameters:body (str) – (required), comment body Returns:the comment that was created on the pull request Return type:IssueComment

create_review(body, commit_id=None, event=None, comments=None)

Create a review comment on this pull request.

Warning

If you do not specify event, GitHub will default it to PENDING which means that your review will need to be submitted after creation. (See also submit().)

Parameters:

• body (str) – The comment text itself, required when using COMMENT or REQUEST_CHANGES.
• commit_id (str) – The SHA of the commit to comment on
• event (str) – The review action you want to perform. Actions include APPROVE, REQUEST_CHANGES or COMMENT. By leaving this blank you set the action to PENDING and will need to submit the review. Leaving blank may result in a 422 error response which will need to be handled.
• comments (list) –

  Array of draft review comment objects. Please see Github’s Create a pull request review documentation for details on review comment objects. At the time of writing these were a dictionary with 3 keys: path, position and body.

Returns:

The created review.

Return type:

PullReview

create_review_comment(body, commit_id, path, position)

Create a review comment on this pull request.

Note

All parameters are required by the GitHub API.

Parameters:

• body (str) – The comment text itself
• commit_id (str) – The SHA of the commit to comment on
• path (str) – The relative path of the file to comment on
• position (int) – The line index in the diff to comment on.

Returns:

The created review comment.

Return type:

ReviewComment

diff()

Return the diff.

Returns:representation of the diff Return type:bytes

files(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the files associated with this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of files to return. Default: -1 returns all available files.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of pull request files

Return type:

PullFile

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

is_merged()

Check to see if the pull request was merged.

Changed in version 1.0.0: This now always makes a call to the GitHub API. To avoid that, check merged before making this call.

Returns:True if merged, False otherwise Return type:bool

issue()

Retrieve the issue associated with this pull request.

Returns:the issue object that this pull request builds upon Return type:Issue

issue_comments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the issue comments on this pull request.

In this case, GitHub leaks implementation details. Pull Requests are really just Issues with a diff. As such, comments on a pull request that are not in-line with code, are technically issue comments.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all available comments.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of non-review comments on this pull request

Return type:

IssueComment

merge(commit_message=None, sha=None, merge_method='merge')

Merge this pull request.

Changed in version 1.0.0: The boolean squash parameter has been replaced with merge_method which requires a string.

Parameters:

• commit_message (str) – (optional), message to be used for the merge commit
• sha (str) – (optional), SHA that pull request head must match to merge.
• merge_method (str) – (optional), Change the merge method. Either ‘merge’, ‘squash’ or ‘rebase’. Default is ‘merge’.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Returns:

bool

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

patch()

Return the patch.

Returns:bytestring representation of the patch Return type:bytes

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

reopen()

Re-open a closed Pull Request.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

review_comments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the review comments on this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all available comments.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of review comments

Return type:

ReviewComment

reviews(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the reviews associated with this pull request.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of reviews to return. Default: -1 returns all available files.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of reviews for this pull request

Return type:

PullReview

update(title=None, body=None, state=None, base=None, maintainer_can_modify=None)

Update this pull request.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (optional), title of the pull
• body (str) – (optional), body of the pull request
• state (str) – (optional), one of (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• base (str) – (optional), Name of the branch on the current repository that the changes should be pulled into.
• maintainer_can_modify (bool) – (optional), Indicates whether a maintainer is allowed to modify the pull request or not.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

class github3.pulls.PullDestination(json, session)

The object that represents a pull request destination.

This is the base class for the Head and Base objects. Each has identical attributes to this object.

Please see GitHub’s Pull Request Documentation for more information.

ref

The full reference string for the git object

label

The label for the destination (e.g., ‘master’, ‘mybranch’)

user

If provided, a ShortUser instance representing the owner of the destination

sha

The SHA of the commit at the head of the destination

repository

A ShortRepository representing the repository containing this destination

repo

A tuple containing the login and repository name, e.g., (‘sigmavirus24’, ‘github3.py’)

This attribute is generated by github3.py and may be deprecated in the future.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

class github3.pulls.Head(json, session)

An object representing the Head destination of a pull request.

See PullDestination for more details.

class github3.pulls.Base(json, session)

An object representing the Base destination of a pull request.

See PullDestination for more details.

class github3.pulls.PullFile(json, session)

The object that represents a file in a pull request.

Please see GitHub’s Pull Request Files Documentation for more information.

additions_count

The number of additions made to this file

blob_url

The API resource used to retrieve the blob for this file

changes_count

The number of changes made to this file

contents_url

The API resource to view the raw contents of this file

deletions_count

The number of deletions made to this file

filename

The name of this file

patch

The patch generated by this

Note

If the patch is larger than a specific size it may be missing from GitHub’s response. The attribute will be set to None in this case.

raw_url

The API resource to view the raw diff of this file

sha

The SHA of the commit that this file belongs to

status

The string with the status of the file, e.g., ‘added’

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

contents()

Return the contents of the file.

Returns:An object representing the contents of this file Return type:Contents

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

Review Objects

class github3.pulls.ReviewComment(json, session)

Object representing review comments left on a pull request.

Please see GitHub’s Pull Comments Documentation for more information.

id

The unique identifier for this comment across all GitHub review comments.

author_association

The role of the author of this comment on the repository.

body

The Markdown formatted body of this comment.

body_html

The HTML formatted body of this comment.

body_text

The plain text formatted body of this comment.

commit_id

The SHA of current commit this comment was left on.

created_at

A datetime instance representing the date and time this comment was created.

diff_hunk

A string representation of the hunk of the diff where the comment was left.

html_url

The URL to view this comment in the webbrowser.

links

A dictionary of relevant URLs usually returned in the _links attribute.

original_commit_id

The SHA of the original commit this comment was left on.

original_position

The original position within the diff that this comment was left on.

pull_request_url

The URL to retrieve the pull request via the API.

updated_at

A datetime instance representing the date and time this comment was updated.

user

A ShortUser instance representing the author of this comment.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this comment.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

edit(body)

Edit this comment.

Parameters:body (str) – (required), new body of the comment, Markdown formatted Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

reply(body)

Reply to this review comment with a new review comment.

Parameters:body (str) – The text of the comment. Returns:The created review comment. Return type:ReviewComment

Repository API Objects

This section of the documentation covers the representations of various objects related to the Repositories API.

Repository Objects

class github3.repos.repo.Repository(json, session)

This organizes the full representation of a single Repository.

The full representation of a Repository is not returned in collections but instead in individual requests, e.g., repository().

This object has all the same attributes as ShortRepository as well as:

allow_merge_commit

Note

This attribute is not guaranteed to be present.

Whether the repository allows creating a merge commit when merging when a pull request.

allow_rebase_merge

Note

This attribute is not guaranteed to be present.

Whether the repository allows rebasing when merging a pull request.

allow_squash_merge

Note

This attribute is not guaranteed to be present.

Whether the repository allows squashing commits when merging a pull request.

archived

A boolean attribute that describes whether the current repository has been archived or not.

clone_url

This is the URL that can be used to clone the repository via HTTPS, e.g., https://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py.git.

created_at

A parsed datetime object representing the date the repository was created.

default_branch

This is the default branch of the repository as configured by its administrator(s).

forks_count

This is the number of forks of the repository.

git_url

This is the URL that can be used to clone the repository via the Git protocol, e.g., git://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py.

has_downloads

This is a boolean attribute that conveys whether or not the repository has downloads.

has_issues

This is a boolean attribute that conveys whether or not the repository has issues.

has_pages

This is a boolean attribute that conveys whether or not the repository has pages.

has_wiki

This is a boolean attribute that conveys whether or not the repository has a wiki.

homepage

This is the administrator set homepage URL for the project. This may not be provided.

language

This is the language GitHub has detected for the repository.

original_license

Note

When used with a Github Enterprise instance <= 2.12.7, this attribute will not be returned. To handle these situations sensitively, the attribute will be set to None. Repositories may still have a license associated with them in these cases.

This is the ShortLicense returned as part of the repository. To retrieve the most recent license, see the license() method.

mirror_url

The URL that GitHub is mirroring the repository from.

network_count

The size of the repository’s “network”.

open_issues_count

The number of issues currently open on the repository.

parent

A representation of the parent repository as ShortRepository. If this Repository has no parent then this will be None.

pushed_at

A parsed datetime object representing the date a push was last made to the repository.

size

The size of the repository.

source

A representation of the source repository as ShortRepository. If this Repository has no source then this will be None.

ssh_url

This is the URL that can be used to clone the repository via the SSH protocol, e.g., ssh@github.com:sigmavirus24/github3.py.git.

stargazers_count

The number of people who have starred this repository.

subscribers_count

The number of people watching (or who have subscribed to notifications about) this repository.

svn_url

This is the URL that can be used to clone the repository via SVN, e.g., ssh@github.com:sigmavirus24/github3.py.git.

updated_at

A parsed datetime object representing the date a the repository was last updated by its administrator(s).

watchers_count

The number of people watching this repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/

add_collaborator(username)

Add username as a collaborator to a repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – (required), username of the user Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:

archive(format, path='', ref='master')

Get the tarball or zipball archive for this repo at ref.

See: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-archive-link

Parameters:

• format (str) – (required), accepted values: (‘tarball’, ‘zipball’)
• path (str, file) – (optional), path where the file should be saved to, default is the filename provided in the headers and will be written in the current directory. it can take a file-like object as well
• ref (str) – (optional)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

asset(id)

Return a single asset.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), id of the asset Returns:the asset Return type:Asset

assignees(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over all assignees to which an issue may be assigned.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of assignees to return. Default: -1 returns all available assignees
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

blob(sha)

Get the blob indicated by sha.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the blob Returns:the git blob Return type:Blob

branch(name)

Get the branch name of this repository.

Parameters:name (str) – (required), branch name Returns:the branch Return type:Branch

branches(number=-1, protected=False, etag=None)

Iterate over the branches in this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of branches to return. Default: -1 returns all branches
• protected (bool) – (optional), True lists only protected branches. Default: False
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of branches

Return type:

Branch

code_frequency(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the code frequency per week.

New in version 0.7.

Returns a weekly aggregate of the number of additions and deletions pushed to this repository.

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. On those occasions, you will not receive any objects. You should store your iterator and check the new last_status attribute. If it is a 202 you should wait before re-requesting.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of weeks to return. Default: -1 returns all weeks
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of lists [seconds_from_epoch, additions, deletions]

Return type:

list

collaborators(affiliation='all', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the collaborators of this repository.

Parameters:

• affiliation (str) – (optional), affiliation of the collaborator to the repository. Default: “all” returns contributors with all affiliations
• number (int) – (optional), number of collaborators to return. Default: -1 returns all comments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of collaborators

Return type:

Collaborator

comments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over comments on all commits in the repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all comments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of comments on commits

Return type:

RepoComment

commit(sha)

Get a single (repo) commit.

See git_commit() for the Git Data Commit.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the commit Returns:the commit Return type:RepoCommit

commit_activity(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over last year of commit activity by week.

New in version 0.7.

See: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statistics/

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. On those occasions, you will not receive any objects. You should store your iterator and check the new last_status attribute. If it is a 202 you should wait before re-requesting.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of weeks to return. Default -1 will return all of the weeks.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of dictionaries

Return type:

dict

commit_comment(comment_id)

Get a single commit comment.

Parameters:comment_id (int) – (required), id of the comment used by GitHub Returns:the comment on the commit Return type:RepoComment

commits(sha=None, path=None, author=None, number=-1, etag=None, since=None, until=None, per_page=None)

Iterate over commits in this repository.

Parameters:

• sha (str) – (optional), sha or branch to start listing commits from
• path (str) – (optional), commits containing this path will be listed
• author (str) – (optional), GitHub login, real name, or email to filter commits by (using commit author)
• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all comments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only commits after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string.
• until (datetime or str) – (optional), Only commits before this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string.
• per_page (int) – (optional), commits listing page size

Returns:

generator of commits

Return type:

RepoCommit

compare_commits(base, head)

Compare two commits.

Parameters:

• base (str) – (required), base for the comparison
• head (str) – (required), compare this against base

Returns:

the comparison of the commits

Return type:

Comparison

contributor_statistics(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the contributors list.

New in version 0.7.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statistics/

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. On those occasions, you will not receive any objects. You should store your iterator and check the new last_status attribute. If it is a 202 you should wait before re-requesting.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of weeks to return. Default -1 will return all of the weeks.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of contributor statistics for each contributor

Return type:

ContributorStats

contributors(anon=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the contributors to this repository.

Parameters:

• anon (bool) – (optional), True lists anonymous contributors as well
• number (int) – (optional), number of contributors to return. Default: -1 returns all contributors
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of contributor users

Return type:

Contributor

create_blob(content, encoding)

Create a blob with content.

Parameters:

• content (str) – (required), content of the blob
• encoding (str) – (required), (‘base64’, ‘utf-8’)

Returns:

string of the SHA returned

Returns:

str (on Python 3, unicode on Python 2)

create_branch_ref(name, sha=None)

Create a branch git reference.

This is a shortcut for calling github3.repos.repo.Repository.create_ref().

Parameters:

• branch (str) – (required), the branch to create
• sha (str) – the commit to base the branch from

Returns:

a reference object representing the branch

Return type:

Reference

create_comment(body, sha, path=None, position=None, line=1)

Create a comment on a commit.

Parameters:

• body (str) – (required), body of the message
• sha (str) – (required), commit id
• path (str) – (optional), relative path of the file to comment on
• position (str) – (optional), line index in the diff to comment on
• line (int) – (optional), line number of the file to comment on, default: 1

Returns:

the created comment

Return type:

RepoComment

create_commit(message, tree, parents, author=None, committer=None)

Create a commit on this repository.

Parameters:

• message (str) – (required), commit message
• tree (str) – (required), SHA of the tree object this commit points to
• parents (list) – (required), SHAs of the commits that were parents of this commit. If empty, the commit will be written as the root commit. Even if there is only one parent, this should be an array.
• author (dict) – (optional), if omitted, GitHub will use the authenticated user’s credentials and the current time. Format: {‘name’: ‘Committer Name’, ‘email’: ‘name@example.com’, ‘date’: ‘YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:00’}
• committer (dict) – (optional), if ommitted, GitHub will use the author parameters. Should be the same format as the author parameter.

Returns:

the created commit

Return type:

Commit

create_deployment(ref, required_contexts=None, payload='', auto_merge=False, description='', environment=None)

Create a deployment.

Parameters:

• ref (str) – (required), The ref to deploy. This can be a branch, tag, or sha.
• required_contexts (list) – Optional array of status contexts verified against commit status checks. To bypass checking entirely pass an empty array. Default: []
• payload (str) – Optional JSON payload with extra information about the deployment. Default: “”
• auto_merge (bool) – Optional parameter to merge the default branch into the requested deployment branch if necessary. Default: False
• description (str) – Optional short description. Default: “”
• environment (str) – Optional name for the target deployment environment (e.g., production, staging, qa). Default: “production”

Returns:

the created deployment

Return type:

Deployment

create_file(path, message, content, branch=None, committer=None, author=None)

Create a file in this repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#create-a-file

Parameters:

• path (str) – (required), path of the file in the repository
• message (str) – (required), commit message
• content (bytes) – (required), the actual data in the file
• branch (str) – (optional), branch to create the commit on. Defaults to the default branch of the repository
• committer (dict) – (optional), if no information is given the authenticated user’s information will be used. You must specify both a name and email.
• author (dict) – (optional), if omitted this will be filled in with committer information. If passed, you must specify both a name and email.

Returns:

dictionary of contents and commit for created file

Return type:

Contents, Commit

create_fork(organization=None)

Create a fork of this repository.

Parameters:organization (str) – (required), login for organization to create the fork under Returns:the fork of this repository Return type:Repository

create_hook(name, config, events=['push'], active=True)

Create a hook on this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the hook
• config (dict) – (required), key-value pairs which act as settings for this hook
• events (list) – (optional), events the hook is triggered for
• active (bool) – (optional), whether the hook is actually triggered

Returns:

the created hook

Return type:

Hook

create_issue(title, body=None, assignee=None, milestone=None, labels=None, assignees=None)

Create an issue on this repository.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of the issue
• body (str) – (optional), body of the issue
• assignee (str) – (optional), login of the user to assign the issue to
• milestone (int) – (optional), id number of the milestone to attribute this issue to (e.g. m is a Milestone object, m.number is what you pass here.)
• labels ([str]) – (optional), labels to apply to this issue
• assignees ([str]) – (optional), login of the users to assign the issue to

Returns:

the created issue

Return type:

ShortIssue

create_key(title, key, read_only=False)

Create a deploy key.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of key
• key (str) – (required), key text
• read_only (bool) – (optional), restrict key access to read-only, default is False

Returns:

the created key

Return type:

Key

create_label(name, color)

Create a label for this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name to give to the label
• color (str) – (required), value of the color to assign to the label, e.g., ‘#fafafa’ or ‘fafafa’ (the latter is what is sent)

Returns:

the created label

Return type:

Label

create_milestone(title, state=None, description=None, due_on=None)

Create a milestone for this repository.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of the milestone
• state (str) – (optional), state of the milestone, accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’), default: ‘open’
• description (str) – (optional), description of the milestone
• due_on (str) – (optional), ISO 8601 formatted due date

Returns:

the created milestone

Return type:

Milestone

create_project(name, body=None)

Create a project for this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the project
• body (str) – (optional), body of the project

Returns:

the created project

Return type:

Project

create_pull(title, base, head, body=None)

Create a pull request of head onto base branch in this repo.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required)
• base (str) – (required), e.g., ‘master’
• head (str) – (required), e.g., ‘username:branch’
• body (str) – (optional), markdown formatted description

Returns:

the created pull request

Return type:

ShortPullRequest

create_pull_from_issue(issue, base, head)

Create a pull request from issue #``issue``.

Parameters:

• issue (int) – (required), issue number
• base (str) – (required), e.g., ‘master’
• head (str) – (required), e.g., ‘username:branch’

Returns:

the created pull request

Return type:

ShortPullRequest

create_ref(ref, sha)

Create a reference in this repository.

Parameters:

• ref (str) – (required), fully qualified name of the reference, e.g. refs/heads/master. If it doesn’t start with refs and contain at least two slashes, GitHub’s API will reject it.
• sha (str) – (required), SHA1 value to set the reference to

Returns:

the created ref

Return type:

Reference

create_release(tag_name, target_commitish=None, name=None, body=None, draft=False, prerelease=False)

Create a release for this repository.

Parameters:

• tag_name (str) – (required), name to give to the tag
• target_commitish (str) – (optional), vague concept of a target, either a SHA or a branch name.
• name (str) – (optional), name of the release
• body (str) – (optional), description of the release
• draft (bool) – (optional), whether this release is a draft or not
• prerelease (bool) – (optional), whether this is a prerelease or not

Returns:

the created release

Return type:

Release

create_status(sha, state, target_url=None, description=None, context='default')

Create a status object on a commit.

Parameters:

• sha (str) – (required), SHA of the commit to create the status on
• state (str) – (required), state of the test; only the following are accepted: ‘pending’, ‘success’, ‘error’, ‘failure’
• target_url (str) – (optional), URL to associate with this status.
• description (str) – (optional), short description of the status
• context (str) – (optional), A string label to differentiate this status from the status of other systems

Returns:

the created status

Return type:

Status

create_tag(tag, message, sha, obj_type, tagger, lightweight=False)

Create a tag in this repository.

By default, this method creates an annotated tag. If you wish to create a lightweight tag instead, pass lightweight=True.

If you are creating an annotated tag, this method makes 2 calls to the API:

1. Creates the tag object
2. Creates the reference for the tag

This behaviour is required by the GitHub API.

Parameters:

• tag (str) – (required), name of the tag
• message (str) – (required), tag message
• sha (str) – (required), SHA of the git object this is tagging
• obj_type (str) – (required), type of object being tagged, e.g., ‘commit’, ‘tree’, ‘blob’
• tagger (dict) – (required), containing the name, email of the tagger and the date it was tagged
• lightweight (bool) – (optional), if False, create an annotated tag, otherwise create a lightweight tag (a Reference).

Returns:

if creating a lightweight tag, this will return a Reference, otherwise it will return a Tag

Return type:

Tag or Reference

create_tree(tree, base_tree=None)

Create a tree on this repository.

Parameters:

• tree (list) – (required), specifies the tree structure. Format: [{‘path’: ‘path/file’, ‘mode’: ‘filemode’, ‘type’: ‘blob or tree’, ‘sha’: ‘44bfc6d…’}]
• base_tree (str) – (optional), SHA1 of the tree you want to update with new data

Returns:

the created tree

Return type:

Tree

delete()

Delete this repository.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

delete_key(key_id)

Delete the key with the specified id from your deploy keys list.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

delete_subscription()

Delete the user’s subscription to this repository.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

deployment(id)

Retrieve the deployment identified by id.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), id for deployments. Returns:the deployment Return type:Deployment

deployments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over deployments for this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of deployments to return. Default: -1, returns all available deployments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request for all deployments

Returns:

generator of deployments

Return type:

Deployment

directory_contents(directory_path, ref=None, return_as=<class 'list'>)

Get the contents of each file in directory_path.

If the path provided is actually a directory, you will receive a list back of the form:

[('filename.md', Contents(...)),
 ('github.py', Contents(...)),
 # ...
 ('fiz.py', Contents(...))]

You can either then transform it into a dictionary:

contents = dict(repo.directory_contents('path/to/dir/'))

Or you can use the return_as parameter to have it return a dictionary for you:

contents = repo.directory_contents('path/to/dir/', return_as=dict)

Parameters:

• path (str) – (required), path to file, e.g. github3/repos/repo.py
• ref (str) – (optional), the string name of a commit/branch/tag. Default: master
• return_as – (optional), how to return the directory’s contents. Default: list

Returns:

list of tuples of the filename and the Contents returned

Return type:

[(str, Contents)]

Raises:

github3.exceptions.UnprocessableResponseBody – When the requested directory is not actually a directory

edit(name, description=None, homepage=None, private=None, has_issues=None, has_wiki=None, has_downloads=None, default_branch=None, archived=None, allow_merge_commit=None, allow_squash_merge=None, allow_rebase_merge=None, has_projects=None)

Edit this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the repository
• description (str) – (optional), If not None, change the description for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• homepage (str) – (optional), If not None, change the homepage for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• private (bool) – (optional), If True, make the repository private. If False, make the repository public. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_issues (bool) – (optional), If True, enable issues for this repository. If False, disable issues for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_wiki (bool) – (optional), If True, enable the wiki for this repository. If False, disable the wiki for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_downloads (bool) – (optional), If True, enable downloads for this repository. If False, disable downloads for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• default_branch (str) – (optional), If not None, change the default branch for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• archived (bool) – (optional), If not None, toggle the archived attribute on the repository to control whether it is archived or not.
• allow_rebase_merge (bool) – (optional), If not None, change whether the merge strategy that allows adding all commits from the head branch onto the base branch individually is enabled for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• allow_squash_merge (bool) – (optional), If not None, change whether combining all commits from the head branch into a single commit in the base branch is allowed. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• allow_merge_commit (bool) – (optional), If not None, change whether adding all commits from the head branch to the base branch with a merge commit is allowed. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_projects (bool) – (optional), If True, enable projects for this repository. If False, disable projects projects for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

file_contents(path, ref=None)

Get the contents of the file pointed to by path.

Parameters:

• path (str) – (required), path to file, e.g. github3/repos/repo.py
• ref (str) – (optional), the string name of a commit/branch/tag. Default: master

Returns:

the contents of the file requested

Return type:

Contents

forks(sort='', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over forks of this repository.

Parameters:

• sort (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘newest’, ‘oldest’, ‘stargazers’), API default: ‘newest’
• number (int) – (optional), number of forks to return. Default: -1 returns all forks
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of forks of this repository

Return type:

ShortRepository

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

git_commit(sha)

Get a single (git) commit.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the commit Returns:the single commit data from git Return type:Commit

hook(hook_id)

Get a single hook.

Parameters:hook_id (int) – (required), id of the hook Returns:the hook Return type:Hook

hooks(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over hooks registered on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of hoks to return. Default: -1 returns all hooks
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of hooks

Return type:

Hook

ignore()

Ignore notifications from this repository for the user.

New in version 1.0.

This replaces Repository#set_subscription.

Returns:the new repository subscription Return type::class:~github3.notifications.RepositorySubscription`

import_issue(title, body, created_at, assignee=None, milestone=None, closed=None, labels=None, comments=None)

Import an issue into the repository.

See also: https://gist.github.com/jonmagic/5282384165e0f86ef105

Parameters:

• title (string) – (required) Title of issue
• body (string) – (required) Body of issue
• created_at (datetime or str) – (required) Creation timestamp
• assignee (string) – (optional) Username to assign issue to
• milestone (int) – (optional) Milestone ID
• closed (boolean) – (optional) Status of issue is Closed if True
• labels (list) – (optional) List of labels containing string names
• comments (list) – (optional) List of dictionaries which contain created_at and body attributes

Returns:

the imported issue

Return type:

ImportedIssue

imported_issue(imported_issue_id)

Retrieve imported issue specified by imported issue id.

Parameters:imported_issue_id (int) – (required) id of imported issue Returns:the imported issue Return type:ImportedIssue

imported_issues(number=-1, since=None, etag=None)

Retrieve the collection of imported issues via the API.

See also: https://gist.github.com/jonmagic/5282384165e0f86ef105

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of imported issues to return. Default: -1 returns all branches
• since – (optional), Only imported issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime instance, ISO8601 formatted date string, or a string formatted like so: 2016-02-04 i.e. %Y-%m-%d
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of imported issues

Return type:

ImportedIssue

is_assignee(username)

Check if the user can be assigned an issue on this repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – name of the user to check Returns:bool

is_collaborator(username)

Check to see if username is a collaborator on this repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – (required), login for the user Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

issue(number)

Get the issue specified by number.

Parameters:number (int) – (required), number of the issue on this repository Returns:the issue Return type:Issue

issue_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over issue events on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events on issues

Return type:

IssueEvent

issues(milestone=None, state=None, assignee=None, mentioned=None, labels=None, sort=None, direction=None, since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over issues on this repo based upon parameters passed.

Changed in version 0.9.0: The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

Parameters:

• milestone (int) – (optional), ‘none’, or ‘*’
• state (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’)
• assignee (str) – (optional), ‘none’, ‘*’, or login name
• mentioned (str) – (optional), user’s login name
• labels (str) – (optional), comma-separated list of labels, e.g. ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort – (optional), accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’, ‘created’)
• direction (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’)
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), Number of issues to return. By default all issues are returned
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of issues

Return type:

ShortIssue

key(id_num)

Get the specified deploy key.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), id of the key Returns:the deploy key Return type:Key

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over deploy keys on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of keys

Return type:

Key

label(name)

Get the label specified by name.

Parameters:name (str) – (required), name of the label Returns:the label Return type:Label

labels(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over labels on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of labels to return. Default: -1 returns all available labels
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of labels

Return type:

Label

languages(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the programming languages used in the repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of languages to return. Default: -1 returns all used languages
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of tuples

Return type:

tuple

latest_pages_build()

Get the build information for the most recent Pages build.

Returns:the information for the most recent build Return type:PagesBuild

latest_release()

Get the latest release.

Draft releases and prereleases are not returned by this endpoint.

Returns:the release Return type:Release

license()

Get the contents of a license for the repo.

Returns:the license Return type:RepositoryLicense

mark_notifications(last_read='')

Mark all notifications in this repository as read.

Parameters:last_read (str) – (optional), Describes the last point that notifications were checked. Anything updated since this time will not be updated. Default: Now. Expected in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. Example: “2012-10-09T23:39:01Z”. Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

merge(base, head, message='')

Perform a merge from head into base.

Parameters:

• base (str) – (required), where you’re merging into
• head (str) – (required), where you’re merging from
• message (str) – (optional), message to be used for the commit

Returns:

the commit resulting from the merge

Return type:

RepoCommit

milestone(number)

Get the milestone indicated by number.

Parameters:number (int) – (required), unique id number of the milestone Returns:the milestone Return type:Milestone

milestones(state=None, sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the milestones on this repository.

Parameters:

• state (str) – (optional), state of the milestones, accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• sort (str) – (optional), how to sort the milestones, accepted values: (‘due_date’, ‘completeness’)
• direction (str) – (optional), direction to sort the milestones, accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’)
• number (int) – (optional), number of milestones to return. Default: -1 returns all milestones
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of milestones

Return type:

Milestone

network_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events on a network of repositories.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

notifications(all=False, participating=False, since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the notifications for this repository.

Parameters:

• all (bool) – (optional), show all notifications, including ones marked as read
• participating (bool) – (optional), show only the notifications the user is participating in directly
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), filters out any notifications updated before the given time. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of notification threads

Return type:

Thread

pages()

Get information about this repository’s pages site.

Returns:information about this repository’s GitHub pages site Return type:PagesInfo

pages_builds(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over pages builds of this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional) the number of builds to return
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag value from a previous request

Returns:

generator of builds

Return type:

PagesBuild

project(id, etag=None)

Return the organization project with the given ID.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), ID number of the project Returns:the project Return type:Project

projects(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over projects for this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of projects

Return type:

Project

pull_request(number)

Get the pull request indicated by number.

Parameters:number (int) – (required), number of the pull request. Returns:the pull request Return type:PullRequest

pull_requests(state=None, head=None, base=None, sort='created', direction='desc', number=-1, etag=None)

List pull requests on repository.

Changed in version 0.9.0:

• The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

• The sort parameter was added.

• The direction parameter was added.

Parameters:

• state (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’)
• head (str) – (optional), filters pulls by head user and branch name in the format user:ref-name, e.g., seveas:debian
• base (str) – (optional), filter pulls by base branch name. Example: develop.
• sort (str) – (optional), Sort pull requests by created, updated, popularity, long-running. Default: ‘created’
• direction (str) – (optional), Choose the direction to list pull requests. Accepted values: (‘desc’, ‘asc’). Default: ‘desc’
• number (int) – (optional), number of pulls to return. Default: -1 returns all available pull requests
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of pull requests

Return type:

ShortPullRequest

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

readme()

Get the README for this repository.

Returns:this repository’s readme Return type:Contents

ref(ref)

Get a reference pointed to by ref.

The most common will be branches and tags. For a branch, you must specify ‘heads/branchname’ and for a tag, ‘tags/tagname’. Essentially, the system should return any reference you provide it in the namespace, including notes and stashes (provided they exist on the server).

Parameters:ref (str) – (required) Returns:the reference Return type:Reference

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

refs(subspace='', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over references for this repository.

Parameters:

• subspace (str) – (optional), e.g. ‘tags’, ‘stashes’, ‘notes’
• number (int) – (optional), number of refs to return. Default: -1 returns all available refs
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of references

Return type:

Reference

release(id)

Get a single release.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), id of release Returns:the release Return type:Release

release_from_tag(tag_name)

Get a release by tag name.

release_from_tag() returns a release with specified tag while release() returns a release with specified release id

Parameters:tag_name (str) – (required) name of tag Returns:the release Return type:Release

releases(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over releases for this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of refs to return. Default: -1 returns all available refs
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of releases

Return type:

Release

remove_collaborator(username)

Remove collaborator username from the repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – (required), login name of the collaborator Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

replace_topics(new_topics)

Replace the repository topics with new_topics.

Parameters:topics (list) – (required), new topics of the repository Returns:new topics of the repository Return type:Topics

stargazers(number=-1, etag=None)

List users who have starred this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of stargazers to return. Default: -1 returns all subscribers available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

statuses(sha, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the statuses for a specific SHA.

Warning

Deprecated in v1.0. Also deprecated upstream https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/

Parameters:

• sha (str) – SHA of the commit to list the statuses of
• number (int) – (optional), return up to number statuses. Default: -1 returns all available statuses.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of statuses

Return type:

Status

subscribe()

Subscribe the user to this repository’s notifications.

New in version 1.0.

This replaces Repository#set_subscription

Parameters:

• subscribed (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be received from this repository.
• ignored (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be ignored from this repository.

Returns:

the new repository subscription

Return type:

RepositorySubscription

subscribers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over users subscribed to this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscribers to return. Default: -1 returns all subscribers available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users subscribed to this repository

Return type:

ShortUser

subscription()

Return subscription for this Repository.

Returns:the user’s subscription to this repository Return type:RepositorySubscription

tag(sha)

Get an annotated tag.

http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the object for this tag Returns:the annotated tag Return type:Tag

tags(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over tags on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), return up to at most number tags. Default: -1 returns all available tags.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of tags with GitHub repository specific information

Return type:

RepoTag

teams(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over teams with access to this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), return up to number Teams. Default: -1 returns all Teams.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of teams

Return type:

Team

topics()

Get the topics of this repository.

Returns:this repository’s topics Return type:Topics

tree(sha)

Get a tree.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the object for this tree Returns:the tree Return type:Tree

weekly_commit_count()

Retrieve the total commit counts.

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. If github3.py receives a 202 in this case, it will return an emtpy dictionary. You should give the API a moment to compose the data and then re -request it via this method.

..versionadded:: 0.7

The dictionary returned has two entries: all and owner. Each has a fifty-two element long list of commit counts. (Note: all includes the owner.) d['all'][0] will be the oldest week, d['all'][51] will be the most recent.

Returns:the commit count as a dictionary Return type:dict

class github3.repos.repo.ShortRepository(json, session)

This represents a Repository object returned in collections.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about repositories based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific repository. For example, you would receive this class when calling repository(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of repositories, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

This object only has the following attributes:

url

The GitHub API URL for this repository, e.g., https://api.github.com/repos/sigmavirus24/github3.py.

archive_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check archive_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to archive_urlt.expand().

assignees_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check assignees_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to assignees_urlt.expand().

blobs_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check blobs_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to blobs_urlt.expand().

branches_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check branches_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to branches_urlt.expand().

collaborators_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check collaborators_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to collaborators_urlt.expand().

comments_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check comments_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to comments_urlt.expand().

commits_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check commits_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to commits_urlt.expand().

compare_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check compare_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to compare_urlt.expand().

contents_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check contents_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to contents_urlt.expand().

contributors_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of contributors.

deployments_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of deployments.

description

The administrator created description of the repository.

downloads_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of downloads.

events_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of events.

fork

Whether or not this repository is a fork of another.

forks_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of forks.

full_name

The full name of this repository, e.g., sigmavirus24/github3.py.

git_commits_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check git_commits_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to git_commits_urlt.expand().

git_refs_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check git_refs_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to git_refs_urlt.expand().

git_tags_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check git_tags_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to git_tags_urlt.expand().

hooks_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of hooks.

html_url

The HTML URL of this repository, e.g., https://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py.

id

The unique GitHub assigned numerical id of this repository.

issue_comment_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check issue_comment_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to issue_comment_urlt.expand().

issue_events_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check issue_events_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to issue_events_urlt.expand().

issues_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check issues_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to issues_urlt.expand().

keys_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check keys_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to keys_urlt.expand().

labels_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check labels_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to labels_urlt.expand().

languages_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of languages.

merges_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of merges.

milestones_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check milestones_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to milestones_urlt.expand().

name

The name of the repository, e.g., github3.py.

notifications_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check notifications_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to notifications_urlt.expand().

owner

The owner of the repository, e.g., sigmavirus24.

private

Whether the repository is private or public.

pulls_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check pulls_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to pulls_urlt.expand().

releases_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check releases_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to releases_urlt.expand().

stargazers_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of stargazers.

statuses_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check statuses_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to statuses_urlt.expand().

subscribers_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of subscribers.

subscription_url

The URL to modify subscription to this repository.

tags_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of tags.

teams_url

The URL to retrieve this repository’s list of teams.

trees_urlt

The URITemplate object representing the URI template returned by GitHub’s API. Check trees_urlt.variables for the list of variables that can be passed to trees_urlt.expand().

New in version 1.0.0.

add_collaborator(username)

Add username as a collaborator to a repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – (required), username of the user Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:

archive(format, path='', ref='master')

Get the tarball or zipball archive for this repo at ref.

See: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-archive-link

Parameters:

• format (str) – (required), accepted values: (‘tarball’, ‘zipball’)
• path (str, file) – (optional), path where the file should be saved to, default is the filename provided in the headers and will be written in the current directory. it can take a file-like object as well
• ref (str) – (optional)

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

asset(id)

Return a single asset.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), id of the asset Returns:the asset Return type:Asset

assignees(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over all assignees to which an issue may be assigned.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of assignees to return. Default: -1 returns all available assignees
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

blob(sha)

Get the blob indicated by sha.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the blob Returns:the git blob Return type:Blob

branch(name)

Get the branch name of this repository.

Parameters:name (str) – (required), branch name Returns:the branch Return type:Branch

branches(number=-1, protected=False, etag=None)

Iterate over the branches in this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of branches to return. Default: -1 returns all branches
• protected (bool) – (optional), True lists only protected branches. Default: False
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of branches

Return type:

Branch

code_frequency(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the code frequency per week.

New in version 0.7.

Returns a weekly aggregate of the number of additions and deletions pushed to this repository.

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. On those occasions, you will not receive any objects. You should store your iterator and check the new last_status attribute. If it is a 202 you should wait before re-requesting.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of weeks to return. Default: -1 returns all weeks
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of lists [seconds_from_epoch, additions, deletions]

Return type:

list

collaborators(affiliation='all', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the collaborators of this repository.

Parameters:

• affiliation (str) – (optional), affiliation of the collaborator to the repository. Default: “all” returns contributors with all affiliations
• number (int) – (optional), number of collaborators to return. Default: -1 returns all comments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of collaborators

Return type:

Collaborator

comments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over comments on all commits in the repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all comments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of comments on commits

Return type:

RepoComment

commit(sha)

Get a single (repo) commit.

See git_commit() for the Git Data Commit.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the commit Returns:the commit Return type:RepoCommit

commit_activity(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over last year of commit activity by week.

New in version 0.7.

See: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statistics/

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. On those occasions, you will not receive any objects. You should store your iterator and check the new last_status attribute. If it is a 202 you should wait before re-requesting.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of weeks to return. Default -1 will return all of the weeks.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of dictionaries

Return type:

dict

commit_comment(comment_id)

Get a single commit comment.

Parameters:comment_id (int) – (required), id of the comment used by GitHub Returns:the comment on the commit Return type:RepoComment

commits(sha=None, path=None, author=None, number=-1, etag=None, since=None, until=None, per_page=None)

Iterate over commits in this repository.

Parameters:

• sha (str) – (optional), sha or branch to start listing commits from
• path (str) – (optional), commits containing this path will be listed
• author (str) – (optional), GitHub login, real name, or email to filter commits by (using commit author)
• number (int) – (optional), number of comments to return. Default: -1 returns all comments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only commits after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string.
• until (datetime or str) – (optional), Only commits before this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string.
• per_page (int) – (optional), commits listing page size

Returns:

generator of commits

Return type:

RepoCommit

compare_commits(base, head)

Compare two commits.

Parameters:

• base (str) – (required), base for the comparison
• head (str) – (required), compare this against base

Returns:

the comparison of the commits

Return type:

Comparison

contributor_statistics(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the contributors list.

New in version 0.7.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statistics/

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. On those occasions, you will not receive any objects. You should store your iterator and check the new last_status attribute. If it is a 202 you should wait before re-requesting.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of weeks to return. Default -1 will return all of the weeks.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of contributor statistics for each contributor

Return type:

ContributorStats

contributors(anon=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the contributors to this repository.

Parameters:

• anon (bool) – (optional), True lists anonymous contributors as well
• number (int) – (optional), number of contributors to return. Default: -1 returns all contributors
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of contributor users

Return type:

Contributor

create_blob(content, encoding)

Create a blob with content.

Parameters:

• content (str) – (required), content of the blob
• encoding (str) – (required), (‘base64’, ‘utf-8’)

Returns:

string of the SHA returned

Returns:

str (on Python 3, unicode on Python 2)

create_branch_ref(name, sha=None)

Create a branch git reference.

This is a shortcut for calling github3.repos.repo.Repository.create_ref().

Parameters:

• branch (str) – (required), the branch to create
• sha (str) – the commit to base the branch from

Returns:

a reference object representing the branch

Return type:

Reference

create_comment(body, sha, path=None, position=None, line=1)

Create a comment on a commit.

Parameters:

• body (str) – (required), body of the message
• sha (str) – (required), commit id
• path (str) – (optional), relative path of the file to comment on
• position (str) – (optional), line index in the diff to comment on
• line (int) – (optional), line number of the file to comment on, default: 1

Returns:

the created comment

Return type:

RepoComment

create_commit(message, tree, parents, author=None, committer=None)

Create a commit on this repository.

Parameters:

• message (str) – (required), commit message
• tree (str) – (required), SHA of the tree object this commit points to
• parents (list) – (required), SHAs of the commits that were parents of this commit. If empty, the commit will be written as the root commit. Even if there is only one parent, this should be an array.
• author (dict) – (optional), if omitted, GitHub will use the authenticated user’s credentials and the current time. Format: {‘name’: ‘Committer Name’, ‘email’: ‘name@example.com’, ‘date’: ‘YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:00’}
• committer (dict) – (optional), if ommitted, GitHub will use the author parameters. Should be the same format as the author parameter.

Returns:

the created commit

Return type:

Commit

create_deployment(ref, required_contexts=None, payload='', auto_merge=False, description='', environment=None)

Create a deployment.

Parameters:

• ref (str) – (required), The ref to deploy. This can be a branch, tag, or sha.
• required_contexts (list) – Optional array of status contexts verified against commit status checks. To bypass checking entirely pass an empty array. Default: []
• payload (str) – Optional JSON payload with extra information about the deployment. Default: “”
• auto_merge (bool) – Optional parameter to merge the default branch into the requested deployment branch if necessary. Default: False
• description (str) – Optional short description. Default: “”
• environment (str) – Optional name for the target deployment environment (e.g., production, staging, qa). Default: “production”

Returns:

the created deployment

Return type:

Deployment

create_file(path, message, content, branch=None, committer=None, author=None)

Create a file in this repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#create-a-file

Parameters:

• path (str) – (required), path of the file in the repository
• message (str) – (required), commit message
• content (bytes) – (required), the actual data in the file
• branch (str) – (optional), branch to create the commit on. Defaults to the default branch of the repository
• committer (dict) – (optional), if no information is given the authenticated user’s information will be used. You must specify both a name and email.
• author (dict) – (optional), if omitted this will be filled in with committer information. If passed, you must specify both a name and email.

Returns:

dictionary of contents and commit for created file

Return type:

Contents, Commit

create_fork(organization=None)

Create a fork of this repository.

Parameters:organization (str) – (required), login for organization to create the fork under Returns:the fork of this repository Return type:Repository

create_hook(name, config, events=['push'], active=True)

Create a hook on this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the hook
• config (dict) – (required), key-value pairs which act as settings for this hook
• events (list) – (optional), events the hook is triggered for
• active (bool) – (optional), whether the hook is actually triggered

Returns:

the created hook

Return type:

Hook

create_issue(title, body=None, assignee=None, milestone=None, labels=None, assignees=None)

Create an issue on this repository.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of the issue
• body (str) – (optional), body of the issue
• assignee (str) – (optional), login of the user to assign the issue to
• milestone (int) – (optional), id number of the milestone to attribute this issue to (e.g. m is a Milestone object, m.number is what you pass here.)
• labels ([str]) – (optional), labels to apply to this issue
• assignees ([str]) – (optional), login of the users to assign the issue to

Returns:

the created issue

Return type:

ShortIssue

create_key(title, key, read_only=False)

Create a deploy key.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of key
• key (str) – (required), key text
• read_only (bool) – (optional), restrict key access to read-only, default is False

Returns:

the created key

Return type:

Key

create_label(name, color)

Create a label for this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name to give to the label
• color (str) – (required), value of the color to assign to the label, e.g., ‘#fafafa’ or ‘fafafa’ (the latter is what is sent)

Returns:

the created label

Return type:

Label

create_milestone(title, state=None, description=None, due_on=None)

Create a milestone for this repository.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of the milestone
• state (str) – (optional), state of the milestone, accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’), default: ‘open’
• description (str) – (optional), description of the milestone
• due_on (str) – (optional), ISO 8601 formatted due date

Returns:

the created milestone

Return type:

Milestone

create_project(name, body=None)

Create a project for this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the project
• body (str) – (optional), body of the project

Returns:

the created project

Return type:

Project

create_pull(title, base, head, body=None)

Create a pull request of head onto base branch in this repo.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required)
• base (str) – (required), e.g., ‘master’
• head (str) – (required), e.g., ‘username:branch’
• body (str) – (optional), markdown formatted description

Returns:

the created pull request

Return type:

ShortPullRequest

create_pull_from_issue(issue, base, head)

Create a pull request from issue #``issue``.

Parameters:

• issue (int) – (required), issue number
• base (str) – (required), e.g., ‘master’
• head (str) – (required), e.g., ‘username:branch’

Returns:

the created pull request

Return type:

ShortPullRequest

create_ref(ref, sha)

Create a reference in this repository.

Parameters:

• ref (str) – (required), fully qualified name of the reference, e.g. refs/heads/master. If it doesn’t start with refs and contain at least two slashes, GitHub’s API will reject it.
• sha (str) – (required), SHA1 value to set the reference to

Returns:

the created ref

Return type:

Reference

create_release(tag_name, target_commitish=None, name=None, body=None, draft=False, prerelease=False)

Create a release for this repository.

Parameters:

• tag_name (str) – (required), name to give to the tag
• target_commitish (str) – (optional), vague concept of a target, either a SHA or a branch name.
• name (str) – (optional), name of the release
• body (str) – (optional), description of the release
• draft (bool) – (optional), whether this release is a draft or not
• prerelease (bool) – (optional), whether this is a prerelease or not

Returns:

the created release

Return type:

Release

create_status(sha, state, target_url=None, description=None, context='default')

Create a status object on a commit.

Parameters:

• sha (str) – (required), SHA of the commit to create the status on
• state (str) – (required), state of the test; only the following are accepted: ‘pending’, ‘success’, ‘error’, ‘failure’
• target_url (str) – (optional), URL to associate with this status.
• description (str) – (optional), short description of the status
• context (str) – (optional), A string label to differentiate this status from the status of other systems

Returns:

the created status

Return type:

Status

create_tag(tag, message, sha, obj_type, tagger, lightweight=False)

Create a tag in this repository.

By default, this method creates an annotated tag. If you wish to create a lightweight tag instead, pass lightweight=True.

If you are creating an annotated tag, this method makes 2 calls to the API:

1. Creates the tag object
2. Creates the reference for the tag

This behaviour is required by the GitHub API.

Parameters:

• tag (str) – (required), name of the tag
• message (str) – (required), tag message
• sha (str) – (required), SHA of the git object this is tagging
• obj_type (str) – (required), type of object being tagged, e.g., ‘commit’, ‘tree’, ‘blob’
• tagger (dict) – (required), containing the name, email of the tagger and the date it was tagged
• lightweight (bool) – (optional), if False, create an annotated tag, otherwise create a lightweight tag (a Reference).

Returns:

if creating a lightweight tag, this will return a Reference, otherwise it will return a Tag

Return type:

Tag or Reference

create_tree(tree, base_tree=None)

Create a tree on this repository.

Parameters:

• tree (list) – (required), specifies the tree structure. Format: [{‘path’: ‘path/file’, ‘mode’: ‘filemode’, ‘type’: ‘blob or tree’, ‘sha’: ‘44bfc6d…’}]
• base_tree (str) – (optional), SHA1 of the tree you want to update with new data

Returns:

the created tree

Return type:

Tree

delete()

Delete this repository.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

delete_key(key_id)

Delete the key with the specified id from your deploy keys list.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

delete_subscription()

Delete the user’s subscription to this repository.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

deployment(id)

Retrieve the deployment identified by id.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), id for deployments. Returns:the deployment Return type:Deployment

deployments(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over deployments for this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of deployments to return. Default: -1, returns all available deployments
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request for all deployments

Returns:

generator of deployments

Return type:

Deployment

directory_contents(directory_path, ref=None, return_as=<class 'list'>)

Get the contents of each file in directory_path.

If the path provided is actually a directory, you will receive a list back of the form:

[('filename.md', Contents(...)),
 ('github.py', Contents(...)),
 # ...
 ('fiz.py', Contents(...))]

You can either then transform it into a dictionary:

contents = dict(repo.directory_contents('path/to/dir/'))

Or you can use the return_as parameter to have it return a dictionary for you:

contents = repo.directory_contents('path/to/dir/', return_as=dict)

Parameters:

• path (str) – (required), path to file, e.g. github3/repos/repo.py
• ref (str) – (optional), the string name of a commit/branch/tag. Default: master
• return_as – (optional), how to return the directory’s contents. Default: list

Returns:

list of tuples of the filename and the Contents returned

Return type:

[(str, Contents)]

Raises:

github3.exceptions.UnprocessableResponseBody – When the requested directory is not actually a directory

edit(name, description=None, homepage=None, private=None, has_issues=None, has_wiki=None, has_downloads=None, default_branch=None, archived=None, allow_merge_commit=None, allow_squash_merge=None, allow_rebase_merge=None, has_projects=None)

Edit this repository.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), name of the repository
• description (str) – (optional), If not None, change the description for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• homepage (str) – (optional), If not None, change the homepage for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• private (bool) – (optional), If True, make the repository private. If False, make the repository public. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_issues (bool) – (optional), If True, enable issues for this repository. If False, disable issues for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_wiki (bool) – (optional), If True, enable the wiki for this repository. If False, disable the wiki for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_downloads (bool) – (optional), If True, enable downloads for this repository. If False, disable downloads for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• default_branch (str) – (optional), If not None, change the default branch for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• archived (bool) – (optional), If not None, toggle the archived attribute on the repository to control whether it is archived or not.
• allow_rebase_merge (bool) – (optional), If not None, change whether the merge strategy that allows adding all commits from the head branch onto the base branch individually is enabled for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• allow_squash_merge (bool) – (optional), If not None, change whether combining all commits from the head branch into a single commit in the base branch is allowed. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• allow_merge_commit (bool) – (optional), If not None, change whether adding all commits from the head branch to the base branch with a merge commit is allowed. API default: None - leave value unchanged.
• has_projects (bool) – (optional), If True, enable projects for this repository. If False, disable projects projects for this repository. API default: None - leave value unchanged.

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

file_contents(path, ref=None)

Get the contents of the file pointed to by path.

Parameters:

• path (str) – (required), path to file, e.g. github3/repos/repo.py
• ref (str) – (optional), the string name of a commit/branch/tag. Default: master

Returns:

the contents of the file requested

Return type:

Contents

forks(sort='', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over forks of this repository.

Parameters:

• sort (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘newest’, ‘oldest’, ‘stargazers’), API default: ‘newest’
• number (int) – (optional), number of forks to return. Default: -1 returns all forks
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of forks of this repository

Return type:

ShortRepository

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

git_commit(sha)

Get a single (git) commit.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the commit Returns:the single commit data from git Return type:Commit

hook(hook_id)

Get a single hook.

Parameters:hook_id (int) – (required), id of the hook Returns:the hook Return type:Hook

hooks(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over hooks registered on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of hoks to return. Default: -1 returns all hooks
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of hooks

Return type:

Hook

ignore()

Ignore notifications from this repository for the user.

New in version 1.0.

This replaces Repository#set_subscription.

Returns:the new repository subscription Return type::class:~github3.notifications.RepositorySubscription`

import_issue(title, body, created_at, assignee=None, milestone=None, closed=None, labels=None, comments=None)

Import an issue into the repository.

See also: https://gist.github.com/jonmagic/5282384165e0f86ef105

Parameters:

• title (string) – (required) Title of issue
• body (string) – (required) Body of issue
• created_at (datetime or str) – (required) Creation timestamp
• assignee (string) – (optional) Username to assign issue to
• milestone (int) – (optional) Milestone ID
• closed (boolean) – (optional) Status of issue is Closed if True
• labels (list) – (optional) List of labels containing string names
• comments (list) – (optional) List of dictionaries which contain created_at and body attributes

Returns:

the imported issue

Return type:

ImportedIssue

imported_issue(imported_issue_id)

Retrieve imported issue specified by imported issue id.

Parameters:imported_issue_id (int) – (required) id of imported issue Returns:the imported issue Return type:ImportedIssue

imported_issues(number=-1, since=None, etag=None)

Retrieve the collection of imported issues via the API.

See also: https://gist.github.com/jonmagic/5282384165e0f86ef105

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of imported issues to return. Default: -1 returns all branches
• since – (optional), Only imported issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime instance, ISO8601 formatted date string, or a string formatted like so: 2016-02-04 i.e. %Y-%m-%d
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of imported issues

Return type:

ImportedIssue

is_assignee(username)

Check if the user can be assigned an issue on this repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – name of the user to check Returns:bool

is_collaborator(username)

Check to see if username is a collaborator on this repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – (required), login for the user Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

issue(number)

Get the issue specified by number.

Parameters:number (int) – (required), number of the issue on this repository Returns:the issue Return type:Issue

issue_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over issue events on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events on issues

Return type:

IssueEvent

issues(milestone=None, state=None, assignee=None, mentioned=None, labels=None, sort=None, direction=None, since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over issues on this repo based upon parameters passed.

Changed in version 0.9.0: The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

Parameters:

• milestone (int) – (optional), ‘none’, or ‘*’
• state (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’)
• assignee (str) – (optional), ‘none’, ‘*’, or login name
• mentioned (str) – (optional), user’s login name
• labels (str) – (optional), comma-separated list of labels, e.g. ‘bug,ui,@high’
• sort – (optional), accepted values: (‘created’, ‘updated’, ‘comments’, ‘created’)
• direction (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’)
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), Only issues after this date will be returned. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• number (int) – (optional), Number of issues to return. By default all issues are returned
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of issues

Return type:

ShortIssue

key(id_num)

Get the specified deploy key.

Parameters:id_num (int) – (required), id of the key Returns:the deploy key Return type:Key

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over deploy keys on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of keys

Return type:

Key

label(name)

Get the label specified by name.

Parameters:name (str) – (required), name of the label Returns:the label Return type:Label

labels(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over labels on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of labels to return. Default: -1 returns all available labels
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of labels

Return type:

Label

languages(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the programming languages used in the repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of languages to return. Default: -1 returns all used languages
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of tuples

Return type:

tuple

latest_pages_build()

Get the build information for the most recent Pages build.

Returns:the information for the most recent build Return type:PagesBuild

latest_release()

Get the latest release.

Draft releases and prereleases are not returned by this endpoint.

Returns:the release Return type:Release

license()

Get the contents of a license for the repo.

Returns:the license Return type:RepositoryLicense

mark_notifications(last_read='')

Mark all notifications in this repository as read.

Parameters:last_read (str) – (optional), Describes the last point that notifications were checked. Anything updated since this time will not be updated. Default: Now. Expected in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. Example: “2012-10-09T23:39:01Z”. Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

merge(base, head, message='')

Perform a merge from head into base.

Parameters:

• base (str) – (required), where you’re merging into
• head (str) – (required), where you’re merging from
• message (str) – (optional), message to be used for the commit

Returns:

the commit resulting from the merge

Return type:

RepoCommit

milestone(number)

Get the milestone indicated by number.

Parameters:number (int) – (required), unique id number of the milestone Returns:the milestone Return type:Milestone

milestones(state=None, sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the milestones on this repository.

Parameters:

• state (str) – (optional), state of the milestones, accepted values: (‘open’, ‘closed’)
• sort (str) – (optional), how to sort the milestones, accepted values: (‘due_date’, ‘completeness’)
• direction (str) – (optional), direction to sort the milestones, accepted values: (‘asc’, ‘desc’)
• number (int) – (optional), number of milestones to return. Default: -1 returns all milestones
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of milestones

Return type:

Milestone

network_events(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events on a network of repositories.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of events

Return type:

Event

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

notifications(all=False, participating=False, since=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the notifications for this repository.

Parameters:

• all (bool) – (optional), show all notifications, including ones marked as read
• participating (bool) – (optional), show only the notifications the user is participating in directly
• since (datetime or str) – (optional), filters out any notifications updated before the given time. This can be a datetime or an ISO8601 formatted date string, e.g., 2012-05-20T23:10:27Z
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of notification threads

Return type:

Thread

pages()

Get information about this repository’s pages site.

Returns:information about this repository’s GitHub pages site Return type:PagesInfo

pages_builds(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over pages builds of this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional) the number of builds to return
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag value from a previous request

Returns:

generator of builds

Return type:

PagesBuild

project(id, etag=None)

Return the organization project with the given ID.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), ID number of the project Returns:the project Return type:Project

projects(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over projects for this organization.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of members to return. Default: -1 will return all available.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of projects

Return type:

Project

pull_request(number)

Get the pull request indicated by number.

Parameters:number (int) – (required), number of the pull request. Returns:the pull request Return type:PullRequest

pull_requests(state=None, head=None, base=None, sort='created', direction='desc', number=-1, etag=None)

List pull requests on repository.

Changed in version 0.9.0:

• The state parameter now accepts ‘all’ in addition to ‘open’ and ‘closed’.

• The sort parameter was added.

• The direction parameter was added.

Parameters:

• state (str) – (optional), accepted values: (‘all’, ‘open’, ‘closed’)
• head (str) – (optional), filters pulls by head user and branch name in the format user:ref-name, e.g., seveas:debian
• base (str) – (optional), filter pulls by base branch name. Example: develop.
• sort (str) – (optional), Sort pull requests by created, updated, popularity, long-running. Default: ‘created’
• direction (str) – (optional), Choose the direction to list pull requests. Accepted values: (‘desc’, ‘asc’). Default: ‘desc’
• number (int) – (optional), number of pulls to return. Default: -1 returns all available pull requests
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of pull requests

Return type:

ShortPullRequest

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

readme()

Get the README for this repository.

Returns:this repository’s readme Return type:Contents

ref(ref)

Get a reference pointed to by ref.

The most common will be branches and tags. For a branch, you must specify ‘heads/branchname’ and for a tag, ‘tags/tagname’. Essentially, the system should return any reference you provide it in the namespace, including notes and stashes (provided they exist on the server).

Parameters:ref (str) – (required) Returns:the reference Return type:Reference

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

refs(subspace='', number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over references for this repository.

Parameters:

• subspace (str) – (optional), e.g. ‘tags’, ‘stashes’, ‘notes’
• number (int) – (optional), number of refs to return. Default: -1 returns all available refs
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of references

Return type:

Reference

release(id)

Get a single release.

Parameters:id (int) – (required), id of release Returns:the release Return type:Release

release_from_tag(tag_name)

Get a release by tag name.

release_from_tag() returns a release with specified tag while release() returns a release with specified release id

Parameters:tag_name (str) – (required) name of tag Returns:the release Return type:Release

releases(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over releases for this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of refs to return. Default: -1 returns all available refs
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of releases

Return type:

Release

remove_collaborator(username)

Remove collaborator username from the repository.

Parameters:username (str or User) – (required), login name of the collaborator Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

replace_topics(new_topics)

Replace the repository topics with new_topics.

Parameters:topics (list) – (required), new topics of the repository Returns:new topics of the repository Return type:Topics

stargazers(number=-1, etag=None)

List users who have starred this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of stargazers to return. Default: -1 returns all subscribers available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users

Return type:

ShortUser

statuses(sha, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the statuses for a specific SHA.

Warning

Deprecated in v1.0. Also deprecated upstream https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/

Parameters:

• sha (str) – SHA of the commit to list the statuses of
• number (int) – (optional), return up to number statuses. Default: -1 returns all available statuses.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of statuses

Return type:

Status

subscribe()

Subscribe the user to this repository’s notifications.

New in version 1.0.

This replaces Repository#set_subscription

Parameters:

• subscribed (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be received from this repository.
• ignored (bool) – (required), determines if notifications should be ignored from this repository.

Returns:

the new repository subscription

Return type:

RepositorySubscription

subscribers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over users subscribed to this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscribers to return. Default: -1 returns all subscribers available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of users subscribed to this repository

Return type:

ShortUser

subscription()

Return subscription for this Repository.

Returns:the user’s subscription to this repository Return type:RepositorySubscription

tag(sha)

Get an annotated tag.

http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the object for this tag Returns:the annotated tag Return type:Tag

tags(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over tags on this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), return up to at most number tags. Default: -1 returns all available tags.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of tags with GitHub repository specific information

Return type:

RepoTag

teams(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over teams with access to this repository.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), return up to number Teams. Default: -1 returns all Teams.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of teams

Return type:

Team

topics()

Get the topics of this repository.

Returns:this repository’s topics Return type:Topics

tree(sha)

Get a tree.

Parameters:sha (str) – (required), sha of the object for this tree Returns:the tree Return type:Tree

weekly_commit_count()

Retrieve the total commit counts.

Note

All statistics methods may return a 202. If github3.py receives a 202 in this case, it will return an emtpy dictionary. You should give the API a moment to compose the data and then re -request it via this method.

..versionadded:: 0.7

The dictionary returned has two entries: all and owner. Each has a fifty-two element long list of commit counts. (Note: all includes the owner.) d['all'][0] will be the oldest week, d['all'][51] will be the most recent.

Returns:the commit count as a dictionary Return type:dict

class github3.repos.repo.StarredRepository(json, session)

This object represents the data returned about a user’s starred repos.

GitHub used to send back the starred_at attribute on Repositories but then changed the structure to a new object that separates that from the Repository representation. This consolidates the two.

Attributes:

starred_at

A parsed datetime object representing the date a the repository was starred.

repository

The Repository that was starred by the user.

See also: https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/starring/#list-repositories-being-starred

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

class github3.repos.contents.Contents(json, session)

A representation of file contents returned via the API.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/

This object has the following attributes:

content

The body of the file. If this is present, it may be base64 encoded.

encoding

The encoding used on the content when returning the data from the API, e.g., base64. If content is not present this will not be present either.

decoded

Note

This is a computed attribute which isn’t returned by the API.

Changed in version 0.5.2.

Decoded content of the file as a bytes object. If we try to decode to character set for you, we might encounter an exception which will prevent the object from being created. On python2 this is the same as a string, but on python3 you should call the decode method with the character set you wish to use, e.g., content.decoded.decode('utf-8').

git_url

The URL for the Git API pertaining to this file.

html_url

The URL to open this file in a browser.

links

A dictionary of links returned about the contents and related resources.

name

The name of the file.

path

The path to this file.

sha

The SHA1 of the contents of this file.

size

The size of file in bytes.

submodule_git_url

The URL of the git submodule (if this is a git submodule).

target

If the file is a symlink, this will be present and provides the type of file that the symlink points to.

type

Type of content, e.g., 'file', 'symlink', or 'submodule'.

delete(message, branch=None, committer=None, author=None)

Delete this file.

Parameters:

• message (str) – (required), commit message to describe the removal
• branch (str) – (optional), branch where the file exists. Defaults to the default branch of the repository.
• committer (dict) – (optional), if no information is given the authenticated user’s information will be used. You must specify both a name and email.
• author (dict) – (optional), if omitted this will be filled in with committer information. If passed, you must specify both a name and email.

Returns:

dictionary of new content and associated commit

Return type:

Contents and Commit

update(message, content, branch=None, committer=None, author=None)

Update this file.

Parameters:

• message (str) – (required), commit message to describe the update
• content (str) – (required), content to update the file with
• branch (str) – (optional), branch where the file exists. Defaults to the default branch of the repository.
• committer (dict) – (optional), if no information is given the authenticated user’s information will be used. You must specify both a name and email.
• author (dict) – (optional), if omitted this will be filled in with committer information. If passed, you must specify both a name and email.

Returns:

dictionary containing the updated contents object and the commit in which it was changed.

Return type:

dictionary of Contents and Commit

class github3.repos.hook.Hook(json, session)

The representation of a hook on a repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/

This object has the following attributes:

active

A boolean attribute describing whether the hook is active or not.

config

A dictionary containing the configuration for this hook.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this hook was created.

events

The list of events which trigger this hook.

id

The unique identifier for this hook.

name

The name provided to this hook.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this hook was updated.

delete()

Delete this hook.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

edit(config={}, events=[], add_events=[], rm_events=[], active=True)

Edit this hook.

Parameters:

• config (dict) – (optional), key-value pairs of settings for this hook
• events (list) – (optional), which events should this be triggered for
• add_events (list) – (optional), events to be added to the list of events that this hook triggers for
• rm_events (list) – (optional), events to be removed from the list of events that this hook triggers for
• active (bool) – (optional), should this event be active

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

ping()

Ping this hook.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

test()

Test this hook.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

class github3.repos.issue_import.ImportedIssue(json, session)

Represents an issue imported via the unofficial API.

See also: https://gist.github.com/jonmagic/5282384165e0f86ef105

This object has the following attributes:

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this imported issue was created.

id

The globally unique identifier for this imported issue.

import_issues_url

The URL used to import more issues via the API.

repository_url

The URL used to retrieve the repository via the API.

status

The status of this imported issue.

updated_at

A datetime object representing te date and time when this imported issue was last updated.

Git-related Objects

class github3.repos.tag.RepoTag(json, session)

Representation of a tag made on a GitHub repository.

Note

This is distinct from Tag. This object has information specific to a tag on a GitHub repository. That includes URLs to the tarball and zipball files auto-generated by GitHub.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-tags

This object has the following attributes:

commit

Changed in version 1.0.0: This attribute used to be a two item dictionary.

A MiniCommit object representing the commit this tag references.

name

The name of this tag, e.g., v1.0.0.

tarball_url

The URL for the tarball file generated by GitHub for this tag.

zipball_url

The URL for the zipball file generated by GitHub for this tag.

Branches

class github3.repos.branch.Branch(json, session)

The representation of a branch returned in a collection.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about repositories based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the limited amount of information returned for a specific branch in a collection. For example, you would receive this class when calling branches(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of branches, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

This object has the same attributes as a ShortBranch as well as the following:

links

The dictionary of URLs returned by the API as _links.

protected

A boolean attribute that describes whether this branch is protected or not.

original_protection

Changed in version 1.1.0: To support a richer branch protection API, this is the new name for the information formerly stored under the attribute protection.

A dictionary with details about the protection configuration of this branch.

protection_url

The URL to access and manage details about this branch’s protection.

class github3.repos.branch.ShortBranch(json, session)

The representation of a branch returned in a collection.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about repositories based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the limited amount of information returned for a specific branch in a collection. For example, you would receive this class when calling branches(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of branches, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

This object has the following attributes:

commit

A MiniCommit representation of the newest commit on this branch with the associated repository metadata.

name

The name of this branch.

class github3.repos.branch.BranchProtection(json, session)

The representation of a branch’s protection.

See also

Branch protection API documentation

GitHub’s documentation of branch protection

This object has the following attributes:

enforce_admins

A ProtectionEnforceAdmins instance representing whether required status checks are required for admins.

restrictions

A ProtectionRestrictions representing who can push to this branch. Team and user restrictions are only available for organization-owned repositories.

required_pull_request_reviews

A ProtectionRequiredPullRequestReviews representing the protection provided by requiring pull request reviews.

required_status_checks

A ProtectionRequiredStatusChecks representing the protection provided by requiring status checks.

delete()

Remove branch protection.

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

update(enforce_admins=None, required_status_checks=None, required_pull_request_reviews=None, restrictions=None)

Enable force push protection and configure status check enforcement.

See: http://git.io/v4Gvu

Parameters:

• enforce_admins (str) – (optional), Specifies the enforcement level of the status checks. Must be one of ‘off’, ‘non_admins’, or ‘everyone’. Use None or omit to use the already associated value.
• required_status_checks (list) – (optional), A list of strings naming status checks that must pass before merging. Use None or omit to use the already associated value.
• required_pull_request_reviews (obj) – (optional), Object representing the configuration of Request Pull Request Reviews settings. Use None or omit to use the already associated value.
• restrictions (obj) – (optional), Object representing the configuration of Restrictions. Use None or omit to use the already associated value.

Returns:

Updated branch protection

Return type:

BranchProtection

class github3.repos.branch.ProtectionEnforceAdmins(json, session)

The representation of a sub-portion of branch protection.

See also

Branch protection API documentation

GitHub’s documentation of branch protection

Admin enforcement of protected branch

GitHub’s documentation of protecting a branch with admins

This object has the following attributes:

enabled

A boolean attribute indicating whether the enforce_admins protection is enabled or disabled.

disable()

Disable Admin enforcement for protected branch.

enable()

Enable Admin enforcement for protected branch.

class github3.repos.branch.ProtectionRestrictions(json, session)

The representation of a sub-portion of branch protection.

See also

Branch protection API documentation

GitHub’s documentation of branch protection

Branch restriction documentation

GitHub’s description of branch restriction

This object has the following attributes:

original_teams

List of ShortTeam objects representing the teams allowed to push to the protected branch.

original_users

List of ShortUser objects representing the users allowed to push to the protected branch.

teams_url

The URL to retrieve the list of teams allowed to push to the protected branch.

users_url

The URL to retrieve the list of users allowed to push to the protected branch.

add_teams(teams)

Add teams to the protected branch.

See: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#add-team-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Warning

This will not update the object to replace the original_teams attribute.

Parameters:teams (list) – The list of the team names to have access to interact with protected branch. Returns:List of added teams Return type:List[github3.orgs.ShortTeam]

add_users(users)

Add users to protected branch.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#add-user-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Warning

This will not update the object to replace the original_users attribute.

Parameters:users (list) – The list of the user logins to have access to interact with protected branch. Returns:List of added users Return type:List[github3.users.ShortUser]

delete()

Completely remove restrictions of the protected branch.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#remove-user-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise. Return type:bool

remove_teams(teams)

Remove teams from protected branch.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#remove-team-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Parameters:teams (list) – The list of the team names to stop having access to interact with protected branch. Returns:List of removed teams Return type:List[github3.orgs.ShortTeam]

remove_users(users)

Remove users from protected branch.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#remove-user-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Parameters:users (list) – The list of the user logins to stop having access to interact with protected branch. Returns:List of removed users Return type:List[github3.users.ShortUser]

replace_teams(teams)

Replace teams that will have access to protected branch.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#replace-team-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Parameters:teams (list) – The list of the team names to have access to interact with protected branch. Returns:List of teams that now have access to the protected branch Return type:List[github3.orgs.ShortTeam]

replace_users(users)

Replace users that will have access to protected branch.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#replace-user-restrictions-of-protected-branch

Parameters:users (list) – The list of the user logins to have access to interact with protected branch. Returns:List of users that now have access to the protected branch Return type:List[github3.users.ShortUser]

teams(number=-1)

Retrieve an up-to-date listing of teams.

Returns:An iterator of teams Return type:ShortTeam

users(number=-1)

Retrieve an up-to-date listing of users.

Returns:An iterator of users Return type:ShortUser

class github3.repos.branch.ProtectionRequiredPullRequestReviews(json, session)

The representation of a sub-portion of branch protection.

See also

Branch protection API documentation

GitHub’s documentation of branch protection.

Branch Required Pull Request Reviews

GitHub’s documentation of required pull request review protections

This object has the folllowing attributes:

dismiss_stale_reviews

A boolean attribute describing whether stale pull request reviews should be automatically dismissed by GitHub.

dismissal_restrictions

If specified, a ProtectionRestrictions object describing the dismissal restrictions for pull request reviews.

require_code_owner_reviews

A boolean attribute describing whether to require “code owners” to review a pull request before it may be merged.

required_approving_review_count

An integer describing the number (between 1 and 6) of reviews required before a pull request may be merged.

delete()

Remove the Required Pull Request Reviews.

Returns:Whether the operation finished successfully or not Return type:bool

update(dismiss_stale_reviews=None, require_code_owner_reviews=None, required_approving_review_count=None, dismissal_restrictions=None)

Update the configuration for the Required Pull Request Reviews.

Parameters:

• dismiss_stale_reviews (bool) – Whether or not to dismiss stale pull request reviews automatically
• require_code_owner_reviews (bool) – Blocks merging pull requests until code owners review them
• required_approving_review_count (int) – The number of reviewers required to approve pull requests. Acceptable values are between 1 and 6.
• dismissal_restrictions (dict) – An empty dictionary will disable this. This must have the following keys: users and teams each mapping to a list of user logins and team slugs respectively.

Returns:

A updated instance of the required pull request reviews.

Return type:

ProtectionRequiredPullRequestReviews

class github3.repos.branch.ProtectionRequiredStatusChecks(json, session)

The representation of a sub-portion of branch protection.

See also

Branch protection API documentation

GitHub’s documentation of branch protection

Required Status Checks documentation

GitHub’s description of required status checks

Required Status Checks API documentation

The API documentation for required status checks

add_contexts(contexts)

Add contexts to the existing list of required contexts.

See: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#add-required-status-checks-contexts-of-protected-branch

Parameters:contexts (list) – The list of contexts to append to the existing list. Returns:The updated list of contexts. Return type:list

contexts()

Retrieve the list of contexts required as status checks.

See: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#list-required-status-checks-contexts-of-protected-branch

Returns:A list of context names which are required status checks. Return type:list

delete()

Remove required status checks from this branch.

See: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#remove-required-status-checks-of-protected-branch

Returns:True if successful, False otherwise Return type:bool

delete_contexts(contexts)

Delete the contexts required as status checks.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#replace-required-status-checks-contexts-of-protected-branch

Parameters:contexts (list) – The names of the contexts to be required as status checks Returns:The updated list of contexts required as status checks. Return type:list

remove_contexts(contexts)

Remove the specified contexts from the list of required contexts.

See: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#remove-required-status-checks-contexts-of-protected-branch

Parameters:contexts (list) – The context names to remove Returns:The updated list of contexts required as status checks. Return type:list

replace_contexts(contexts)

Replace the existing contexts required as status checks.

See https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/branches/#replace-required-status-checks-contexts-of-protected-branch

Parameters:contexts (list) – The names of the contexts to be required as status checks Returns:The new list of contexts required as status checks. Return type:list

update(strict=None, contexts=None)

Update required status checks for the branch.

This requires admin or owner permissions to the repository and branch protection to be enabled.

See also

API docs

Descrption of how to update the required status checks.

Parameters:

• strict (bool) – Whether this should be strict protection or not.
• contexts (list) – A list of context names that should be required.

Returns:

A new instance of this class with the updated information

Return type:

ProtectionRequiredStatusChecks

Commits

class github3.repos.commit.MiniCommit(json, session)

A commit returned on a ShortBranch.

class github3.repos.commit.ShortCommit(json, session)

Representation of an incomplete commit in a collection.

class github3.repos.commit.RepoCommit(json, session)

Representation of a commit with repository and git data.

class github3.repos.comparison.Comparison(json, session)

A representation of a comparison between two or more commit objects.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#compare-two-commits

This object has the following attributes:

.. attribute:: ahead_by

The number of commits between the head and base commit.

base_commit

A ShortCommit representing the base commit in this comparison.

behind_by

The number of commits the head commit is behind the base.

commits

A list of ShortCommit objects representing the commits in the comparison.

diff_url

The URL to retrieve the diff between the head and base commits.

files

A list of dictionaries describing each of the modified files in the comparison.

html_url

The URL to view the comparison in a browser.

patch_url

The URL to retrieve the patch-formatted diff of this comparison.

permalink_url

The permanent URL to retrieve this comparison.

status

Whether the head commit is ahead or behind of base.

total_commits

The total number of commits difference.

diff()

Retrieve the diff for this comparison.

Returns:the diff as a bytes object Return type:bytes

patch()

Retrieve the patch formatted diff for this commit.

Returns:the patch as a bytes object Return type:bytes

Release Objects

class github3.repos.release.Asset(json, session)

Representation of an asset in a release.

See also

List Assets, assets()

Documentation around listing assets of a release

Upload Assets, upload_asset()

Documentation around uploading assets to a release

Get a Single Asset, asset()

Documentation around retrieving an asset

Edit an Asset, edit()

Documentation around editing an asset

Delete an Asset, delete()

Documentation around deleting an asset

This object has the following attributes:

browser_download_url

The user-friendly URL to download this asset via a browser.

content_type

The Content-Type provided by the uploader when this asset was created.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this asset was created.

download_count

The number of times this asset has been downloaded.

download_url

The URL to retrieve this uploaded asset via the API, e.g., tarball, zipball, etc.

id

The unique identifier of this asset.

label

The short description of this asset.

name

The name provided to this asset.

size

The file size of this asset.

state

The state of this asset, e.g., 'uploaded'.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this asset was most recently updated.

delete()

Delete this asset if the user has push access.

Returns:True if successful; False if not successful Return type:bool

download(path='')

Download the data for this asset.

Parameters:path (str, file) – (optional), path where the file should be saved to, default is the filename provided in the headers and will be written in the current directory. It can take a file-like object as well Returns:name of the file, if successful otherwise None Return type:str

edit(name, label=None)

Edit this asset.

Parameters:

• name (str) – (required), The file name of the asset
• label (str) – (optional), An alternate description of the asset

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

class github3.repos.release.Release(json, session)

Representation of a GitHub release.

It holds the information GitHub returns about a release from a Repository.

Please see GitHub’s Releases Documentation for more information.

This object has the following attributes:

original_assets

A list of Asset objects representing the assets uploaded for this relesae.

assets_url

The URL to retrieve the assets from the API.

author

A ShortUser representing the creator of this release.

body

The description of this release as written by the release creator.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this release was created.

draft

A boolean attribute describing whether this release is a draft.

html_url

The URL to view this release in a browser.

id

The unique identifier of this release.

name

The name given to this release by the author.

prerelease

A boolean attribute indicating whether the release is a pre-release.

published_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this release was publisehd.

tag_name

The name of the tag associated with this release.

tarball_url

The URL to retrieve a GitHub generated tarball for this release from the API.

target_commitish

The reference (usually a commit) that is targetted by this release.

upload_urlt

A URITemplate object that expands to form the URL to upload assets to.

zipball_url

The URL to retrieve a GitHub generated zipball for this release from the API.

archive(format, path='')

Get the tarball or zipball archive for this release.

Parameters:

• format (str) – (required), accepted values: (‘tarball’, ‘zipball’)
• path (str, file) – (optional), path where the file should be saved to, default is the filename provided in the headers and will be written in the current directory. It can take a file-like object as well

Returns:

True if successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

asset(asset_id)

Retrieve the asset from this release with asset_id.

Parameters:asset_id (int) – ID of the Asset to retrieve Returns:the specified asset, if it exists Return type:Asset

assets(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the assets available for this release.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), Number of assets to return
• etag (str) – (optional), last ETag header sent

Returns:

generator of asset objects

Return type:

Asset

delete()

Delete this release.

Only users with push access to the repository can delete a release.

Returns:True if successful; False if not successful Return type:bool

edit(tag_name=None, target_commitish=None, name=None, body=None, draft=None, prerelease=None)

Edit this release.

Only users with push access to the repository can edit a release.

If the edit is successful, this object will update itself.

Parameters:

• tag_name (str) – (optional), Name of the tag to use
• target_commitish (str) – (optional), The “commitish” value that determines where the Git tag is created from. Defaults to the repository’s default branch.
• name (str) – (optional), Name of the release
• body (str) – (optional), Description of the release
• draft (boolean) – (optional), True => Release is a draft
• prerelease (boolean) – (optional), True => Release is a prerelease

Returns:

True if successful; False if not successful

Return type:

bool

upload_asset(content_type, name, asset, label=None)

Upload an asset to this release.

Note

All parameters are required.

Parameters:

• content_type (str) – The content type of the asset. Wikipedia has a list of common media types
• name (str) – The name of the file
• asset – The file or bytes object to upload.
• label – (optional), An alternate short description of the asset.

Returns:

the created asset

Return type:

Asset

Pages Objects

class github3.repos.pages.PagesInfo(json, session)

Representation of the information about a GitHub pages website.

cname

The cname in use for the pages site, if one is set.

custom_404

A boolean attribute indicating whether the user configured a custom 404 page for this site.

status

The current status of the pages site, e.g., built.

class github3.repos.pages.PagesBuild(json, session)

Representation of a single build of a GitHub pages website.

commit

The SHA of the commit that triggered this build.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this build was created.

duration

The time it spent processing this build.

error

If this build errored, a dictionary containing the error message and details about the error.

pusher

A ShortUser representing the user who pushed the commit that triggered this build.

status

The current statues of the build, e.g., building.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this build was last updated.

Comment Objects

More information about these classes can be found in the official documentation about comments.

class github3.repos.comment.ShortComment(json, session)

The representation of an abridged comment on an object in a repo.

This object has the following attributes:

author_association

The affiliation the author of this comment has with the repository.

body

The Markdown formatted text of this comment.

commit_id

The SHA1 associated with this comment.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this comment was created.

html_url

The URL to view this comment in a browser.

id

The unique identifier of this comment.

line

The line number where the comment is located.

path

The path to the file where this comment was made.

position

The position in the diff where the comment was left.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this comment was most recently updated.

user

A ShortUser representing the author of this comment.

class github3.repos.comment.RepoComment(json, session)

The representation of the full comment on an object in a repository.

This object has the same attributes as a ShortComment as well as the following:

body_html

The HTML formatted text of this comment.

body_text

The plain-text formatted text of this comment.

Deployment and Status Objects

class github3.repos.deployment.Deployment(json, session)

Representation of a deployment of a repository at a point in time.

See also: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/deployments/

This object has the following attributes:

created_at

A datetime representing the date and time when this deployment was created.

creator

A ShortUser representing the user who created this deployment.

description

The description of this deployment as provided by the creator.

environment

The environment targeted for this deployment, e.g., 'production', 'staging'.

id

The unique identifier of this deployment.

payload

The JSON payload string sent as part to trigger this deployment.

ref

The reference used to create this deployment, e.g., 'deploy-20140526'.

sha

The SHA1 of the branch on GitHub when it was deployed.

statuses_url

The URL to retrieve the statuses of this deployment from the API.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this deployment was most recently updated.

create_status(state, target_url=None, description=None)

Create a new deployment status for this deployment.

Parameters:

• state (str) – (required), The state of the status. Can be one of pending, success, error, or failure.
• target_url (str) – The target URL to associate with this status. This URL should contain output to keep the user updated while the task is running or serve as historical information for what happened in the deployment. Default: ‘’.
• description (str) – A short description of the status. Default: ‘’.

Returns:

the incomplete deployment status

Return type:

DeploymentStatus

statuses(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the deployment statuses for this deployment.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), the number of statuses to return. Default: -1, returns all statuses.
• etag (str) – (optional), the ETag header value from the last time you iterated over the statuses.

Returns:

generator of the statuses of this deployment

Return type:

DeploymentStatus

class github3.repos.deployment.DeploymentStatus(json, session)

Representation of the status of a deployment of a repository.

See also https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/deployments/#get-a-single-deployment-status

This object has the following attributes:

created_at

A datetime representing the date and time when this deployment status was created.

creator

A ShortUser representing the user who created this deployment status.

deployment_url

The URL to retrieve the information about the deployment from the API.

description

The description of this status as provided by the creator.

id

The unique identifier of this deployment.

state

The state of the deployment, e.g., 'success'.

target_url

The URL to associate with this status. This should link to the output of the deployment.

class github3.repos.status.ShortStatus(json, session)

Representation of a short status on a repository.

New in version 1.0.0.

This is the representation found in a CombinedStatus object.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/

This object has the following attributes:

context

This is a string that explains the context of this status object. For example, 'continuous-integration/travis-ci/pr'.

created_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this status was created.

creator

A ShortUser representing the user who created this status.

description

A short description of the status.

id

The unique identifier of this status object.

state

The state of this status, e.g., 'success', 'pending', 'failure'.

target_url

The URL to retrieve more information about this status.

updated_at

A datetime object representing the date and time when this status was most recently updated.

class github3.repos.status.CombinedStatus(json, session)

A representation of the combined statuses in a repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/

This object has the following attributes:

commit_url

The URL of the commit this combined status is present on.

repository

A ShortRepository representing the repository on which this combined status exists.

sha

The SHA1 of the commit this status exists on.

state

The state of the combined status, e.g., 'success', 'pending', 'failure'.

statuses

The list of ShortStatus objects representing the individual statuses that is combined in this object.

total_count

The total number of sub-statuses.

class github3.repos.status.Status(json, session)

Representation of a full status on a repository.

See also: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/

This object has the same attributes as a ShortStatus as well as the following attributes:

creator

A ShortUser representing the user who created this status.

Contributor Statistics Objects

class github3.repos.stats.ContributorStats(json, session)

Representation of a user’s contributor statistics to a repository.

See also http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statistics/

This object has the following attributes:

author

A ShortUser representing the contributor whose stats this object represents.

total

The total number of commits authored by author.

weeks

A list of dictionaries containing weekly statistical data.

alternate_weeks

Note

github3 generates this data for a more humane interface to the data in weeks.

A list of dictionaries that provide an easier to remember set of keys as well as a datetime object representing the start of the week. The dictionary looks vaguely like:

{
    'start of week': datetime(2013, 5, 5, 5, 0, tzinfo=tzutc())
    'additions': 100,
    'deletions': 150,
    'commits': 5,
}

Search Results

These classes are meant to expose the entirety of an item returned as a search result by GitHub’s Search API.

class github3.search.CodeSearchResult(json, session)

A representation of a code search result from the API.

This object has the following attributes:

git_url

The URL to retrieve the blob via Git

html_url

The URL to view the blob found in a browser.

name

The name of the file where the search result was found.

path

The path in the repository to the file containing the result.

repository

A ShortRepository representing the repository in which the result was found.

score

The confidence score assigned to the result.

sha

The SHA1 of the blob in which the code can be found.

text_matches

A list of the text matches in the blob that generated this result.

Note

To receive these, you must pass text_match=True to search_code().

class github3.search.IssueSearchResult(json, session)

A representation of a search result containing an issue.

This object has the following attributes:

issue

A ShortIssue representing the issue found in this search result.

score

The confidence score of this search result.

text_matches

A list of matches in the issue for this search result.

Note

To receive these, you must pass text_match=True to search_issues().

class github3.search.RepositorySearchResult(json, session)

A representation of a search result containing a repository.

This object has the following attributes:

.. attribute:: repository

A ShortRepository representing the repository found by the search.

score

The confidence score of this search result.

text_matches

A list of the text matches in the repository that generated this result.

Note

To receive these, you must pass text_match=True to search_code().

class github3.search.UserSearchResult(json, session)

Representation of a search result for a user.

This object has the following attributes:

score

The confidence score of this result.

text_matches

If present, a list of text strings that match the search string.

user

A ShortUser representing the user found in this search result.

Custom Iterator Structures

Many of the methods in github3.py that return iterators of another object are actually returning one of the iterators below. These iterators effectively allow users to ignore GitHub’s API pagination of large sets of data. In all senses, they behave like a normal Python iterator. Their difference is that they have extra logic around making API requests and coercing the JSON into predefined objects.

class github3.structs.GitHubIterator(count, url, cls, session, params=None, etag=None, headers=None)

The GitHubIterator class powers all of the iter_* methods.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

cls = None

Class for constructing an item to return

count = None

Number of items left in the iterator

etag = None

The ETag Header value returned by GitHub

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

headers = None

Headers generated for the GET request

last_response = None

The last response seen

last_status = None

Last status code received

last_url = None

Last URL that was requested

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

original = None

Original number of items requested

params = None

Parameters of the query string

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

url = None

URL the class used to make it’s first GET

class github3.structs.SearchIterator(count, url, cls, session, params=None, etag=None, headers=None)

This is a special-cased class for returning iterable search results.

It inherits from GitHubIterator. All members and methods documented here are unique to instances of this class. For other members and methods, check its parent class.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

items = None

Items array returned in the last request

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

total_count = None

Total count returned by GitHub

Users and their Associated Objects

This section of the documentation covers the representations of various objects related to the Users API.

User Objects

class github3.users.ShortUser(json, session)

Object for the shortened representation of a User.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about users based upon how that information is retrieved. Often times, when iterating over several users, GitHub will return less information. To provide a clear distinction between the types of users, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

New in version 1.0.0.

avatar_url

The URL of the avatar (possibly from Gravatar)

events_urlt

A URITemplate object from uritemplate that can be used to generate an events URL

followers_url

A string representing the resource to retrieve a User’s followers

following_urlt

A URITemplate object from uritemplate that can be used to generate the URL to check if this user is following other_user

gists_urlt

A URITemplate object from uritemplate that can be used to generate the URL to retrieve a Gist by its id

gravatar_id

The identifier for the user’s gravatar

html_url

The URL of the user’s publicly visible profile. For example, https://github.com/sigmavirus24

id

The unique ID of the account

login

The username of the user, e.g., sigmavirus24

organizations_url

A string representing the resource to retrieve the organizations to which a user belongs

received_events_url

A string representing the resource to retrieve the events a user received

repos_url

A string representing the resource to list a user’s repositories

site_admin

A boolean attribute indicating whether the user is a member of GitHub’s staff

starred_urlt

A URITemplate object from uritemplate that can be used to generate a URL to retrieve whether the user has starred a repository.

subscriptions_url

A string representing the resource to list a user’s subscriptions

type

A string representing the type of User account this. In all cases should be “User”

url

A string of this exact resource retrievable from GitHub’s API

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete the user.

Per GitHub API documentation, it is often preferable to suspend the user.

Note

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

demote()

Demote a site administrator to simple user.

You can demote any user account except your own.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events performed by this user.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), only list public events for the authenticated user
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

followers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the followers of this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

following(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the users being followed by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1 returns all available users
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

impersonate(scopes=None)

Obtain an impersonation token for the user.

The retrieved token will allow impersonation of the user. This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:scopes (list) – (optional), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’ Returns:Authorization

is_assignee_on(username, repository)

Check if this user can be assigned to issues on username/repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – owner’s username of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository

Returns:

True if the use can be assigned, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

is_following(username)

Check if this user is following username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required) Returns:bool

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the public keys of this user.

New in version 0.5.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Keys

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

organization_events(org, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events from the user’s organization dashboard.

Note

You must be authenticated to view this.

Parameters:

• org (str) – (required), name of the organization
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

organizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over organizations the user is member of.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organization
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortOrganizations

promote()

Promote a user to site administrator.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

received_events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events that the user has received.

If the user is the authenticated user, you will see private and public events, otherwise you will only see public events.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), determines if the authenticated user sees both private and public or just public
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

rename(login)

Rename the user.

Note

This is only available for administrators of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:login (str) – (required), new name of the user Returns:bool

revoke_impersonation()

Revoke all impersonation tokens for the current user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

starred_repositories(sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by this user.

Changed in version 0.5: Added sort and direction parameters (optional) as per the change in GitHub’s API.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of starred repos to return. Default: -1, returns all available repos
• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of StarredRepository

subscriptions(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscriptions to return. Default: -1, returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

suspend()

Suspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

unsuspend()

Unsuspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

class github3.users.User(json, session)

Object for the full representation of a User.

GitHub’s API returns different amounts of information about users based upon how that information is retrieved. This object exists to represent the full amount of information returned for a specific user. For example, you would receive this class when calling user(). To provide a clear distinction between the types of users, github3.py uses different classes with different sets of attributes.

This object no longer contains information about the currently authenticated user (e.g., me()).

Changed in version 1.0.0.

This object contains all of the attributes available on ShortUser as well as the following:

bio

The markdown formatted User’s biography

blog

The URL of the user’s blog

company

The name or GitHub handle of the user’s company

created_at

A parsed datetime object representing the date the user was created

email

The email address the user has on their public profile page

followers_count

The number of followers of this user

following_count

The number of users this user follows

hireable

Whether or not the user has opted into GitHub jobs advertising

location

The location specified by the user on their public profile

name

The name specified by their user on their public profile

public_gists_count

The number of public gists owned by this user

updated_at

A parsed datetime object representing the date the user was last updated

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete the user.

Per GitHub API documentation, it is often preferable to suspend the user.

Note

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

demote()

Demote a site administrator to simple user.

You can demote any user account except your own.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events performed by this user.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), only list public events for the authenticated user
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

followers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the followers of this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

following(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the users being followed by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1 returns all available users
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

impersonate(scopes=None)

Obtain an impersonation token for the user.

The retrieved token will allow impersonation of the user. This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:scopes (list) – (optional), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’ Returns:Authorization

is_assignee_on(username, repository)

Check if this user can be assigned to issues on username/repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – owner’s username of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository

Returns:

True if the use can be assigned, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

is_following(username)

Check if this user is following username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required) Returns:bool

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the public keys of this user.

New in version 0.5.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Keys

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

organization_events(org, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events from the user’s organization dashboard.

Note

You must be authenticated to view this.

Parameters:

• org (str) – (required), name of the organization
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

organizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over organizations the user is member of.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organization
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortOrganizations

promote()

Promote a user to site administrator.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

received_events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events that the user has received.

If the user is the authenticated user, you will see private and public events, otherwise you will only see public events.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), determines if the authenticated user sees both private and public or just public
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

rename(login)

Rename the user.

Note

This is only available for administrators of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:login (str) – (required), new name of the user Returns:bool

revoke_impersonation()

Revoke all impersonation tokens for the current user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

starred_repositories(sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by this user.

Changed in version 0.5: Added sort and direction parameters (optional) as per the change in GitHub’s API.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of starred repos to return. Default: -1, returns all available repos
• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of StarredRepository

subscriptions(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscriptions to return. Default: -1, returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

suspend()

Suspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

unsuspend()

Unsuspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

class github3.users.AuthenticatedUser(json, session)

Object to represent the currently authenticated user.

This is returned by me(). It contains the extra informtation that is not returned for other users such as the currently authenticated user’s plan and private email information.

New in version 1.0.0.

Changed in version 1.0.0: The total_private_gists attribute is no longer returned by GitHub’s API and so is removed.

This object has all of the same attribute as the ShortUser and User objects as well as:

disk_usage

The amount of repository space that has been used by you, the user

owned_private_repos_count

The number of private repositories owned by you, the user

plan

Note

When used with a Github Enterprise instance <= 2.12.7, this attribute will not be returned. To handle these situations sensitively, the attribute will be set to None. Repositories may still have a license associated with them in these cases.

The name of the plan that you, the user, have purchased

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete the user.

Per GitHub API documentation, it is often preferable to suspend the user.

Note

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

demote()

Demote a site administrator to simple user.

You can demote any user account except your own.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events performed by this user.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), only list public events for the authenticated user
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

followers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the followers of this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

following(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the users being followed by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1 returns all available users
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

impersonate(scopes=None)

Obtain an impersonation token for the user.

The retrieved token will allow impersonation of the user. This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:scopes (list) – (optional), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’ Returns:Authorization

is_assignee_on(username, repository)

Check if this user can be assigned to issues on username/repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – owner’s username of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository

Returns:

True if the use can be assigned, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

is_following(username)

Check if this user is following username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required) Returns:bool

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the public keys of this user.

New in version 0.5.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Keys

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

organization_events(org, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events from the user’s organization dashboard.

Note

You must be authenticated to view this.

Parameters:

• org (str) – (required), name of the organization
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

organizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over organizations the user is member of.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organization
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortOrganizations

promote()

Promote a user to site administrator.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

received_events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events that the user has received.

If the user is the authenticated user, you will see private and public events, otherwise you will only see public events.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), determines if the authenticated user sees both private and public or just public
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

rename(login)

Rename the user.

Note

This is only available for administrators of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:login (str) – (required), new name of the user Returns:bool

revoke_impersonation()

Revoke all impersonation tokens for the current user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

starred_repositories(sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by this user.

Changed in version 0.5: Added sort and direction parameters (optional) as per the change in GitHub’s API.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of starred repos to return. Default: -1, returns all available repos
• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of StarredRepository

subscriptions(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscriptions to return. Default: -1, returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

suspend()

Suspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

unsuspend()

Unsuspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

class github3.users.Collaborator(json, session)

Object for the representation of a collaborator.

New in version 1.1.0.

When retrieving a repository’s contributors, GitHub returns the same information as a ShortUser with an additional attribute:

permissions

Admin, push, and pull permissions of a collaborator

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete the user.

Per GitHub API documentation, it is often preferable to suspend the user.

Note

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

demote()

Demote a site administrator to simple user.

You can demote any user account except your own.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events performed by this user.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), only list public events for the authenticated user
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

followers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the followers of this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

following(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the users being followed by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1 returns all available users
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

impersonate(scopes=None)

Obtain an impersonation token for the user.

The retrieved token will allow impersonation of the user. This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:scopes (list) – (optional), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’ Returns:Authorization

is_assignee_on(username, repository)

Check if this user can be assigned to issues on username/repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – owner’s username of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository

Returns:

True if the use can be assigned, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

is_following(username)

Check if this user is following username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required) Returns:bool

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the public keys of this user.

New in version 0.5.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Keys

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

organization_events(org, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events from the user’s organization dashboard.

Note

You must be authenticated to view this.

Parameters:

• org (str) – (required), name of the organization
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

organizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over organizations the user is member of.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organization
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortOrganizations

promote()

Promote a user to site administrator.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

received_events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events that the user has received.

If the user is the authenticated user, you will see private and public events, otherwise you will only see public events.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), determines if the authenticated user sees both private and public or just public
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

rename(login)

Rename the user.

Note

This is only available for administrators of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:login (str) – (required), new name of the user Returns:bool

revoke_impersonation()

Revoke all impersonation tokens for the current user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

starred_repositories(sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by this user.

Changed in version 0.5: Added sort and direction parameters (optional) as per the change in GitHub’s API.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of starred repos to return. Default: -1, returns all available repos
• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of StarredRepository

subscriptions(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscriptions to return. Default: -1, returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

suspend()

Suspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

unsuspend()

Unsuspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

class github3.users.Contributor(json, session)

Object for the specialized representation of a contributor.

New in version 1.0.0.

Changed in version 1.1.0: This class now refreshes to a User.

The attribute contributions was renamed to contributions_count, the documentation already declared it as contributions_count, it was the implementation now reflects this as well.

When retrieving a repository’s contributors, GitHub returns the same information as a ShortUser with an additional attribute:

contributions_count

The number of contributions a contributor has made to the repository

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete the user.

Per GitHub API documentation, it is often preferable to suspend the user.

Note

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

demote()

Demote a site administrator to simple user.

You can demote any user account except your own.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events performed by this user.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), only list public events for the authenticated user
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events.
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

followers(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the followers of this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of followers to return. Default: -1 returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

following(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the users being followed by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of users to return. Default: -1 returns all available users
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Users

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

impersonate(scopes=None)

Obtain an impersonation token for the user.

The retrieved token will allow impersonation of the user. This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:scopes (list) – (optional), areas you want this token to apply to, i.e., ‘gist’, ‘user’ Returns:Authorization

is_assignee_on(username, repository)

Check if this user can be assigned to issues on username/repository.

Parameters:

• username (str) – owner’s username of the repository
• repository (str) – name of the repository

Returns:

True if the use can be assigned, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

is_following(username)

Check if this user is following username.

Parameters:username (str) – (required) Returns:bool

keys(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over the public keys of this user.

New in version 0.5.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of keys to return. Default: -1 returns all available keys
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Keys

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

organization_events(org, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events from the user’s organization dashboard.

Note

You must be authenticated to view this.

Parameters:

• org (str) – (required), name of the organization
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all available events
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

organizations(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over organizations the user is member of.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of organizations to return. Default: -1 returns all available organization
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of ShortOrganizations

promote()

Promote a user to site administrator.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

received_events(public=False, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over events that the user has received.

If the user is the authenticated user, you will see private and public events, otherwise you will only see public events.

Parameters:

• public (bool) – (optional), determines if the authenticated user sees both private and public or just public
• number (int) – (optional), number of events to return. Default: -1 returns all events available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Events

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

rename(login)

Rename the user.

Note

This is only available for administrators of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Parameters:login (str) – (required), new name of the user Returns:bool

revoke_impersonation()

Revoke all impersonation tokens for the current user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

starred_repositories(sort=None, direction=None, number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories starred by this user.

Changed in version 0.5: Added sort and direction parameters (optional) as per the change in GitHub’s API.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of starred repos to return. Default: -1, returns all available repos
• sort (str) – (optional), either ‘created’ (when the star was created) or ‘updated’ (when the repository was last pushed to)
• direction (str) – (optional), either ‘asc’ or ‘desc’. Default: ‘desc’
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of StarredRepository

subscriptions(number=-1, etag=None)

Iterate over repositories subscribed to by this user.

Parameters:

• number (int) – (optional), number of subscriptions to return. Default: -1, returns all available
• etag (str) – (optional), ETag from a previous request to the same endpoint

Returns:

generator of Repository

suspend()

Suspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

unsuspend()

Unsuspend the user.

This is only available for admins of a GitHub Enterprise instance.

This API is disabled if you use LDAP, check the GitHub API dos for more information.

Returns:bool – True if successful, False otherwise

AuthenticatedUser Peripherals

class github3.users.Key(json, session)

The object representing a user’s SSH key.

Please see GitHub’s Key Documentation for more information.

Changed in version 1.0.0: Removed title attribute

key

A string containing the actual text of the SSH Key

id

GitHub’s unique ID for this key

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

delete()

Delete this key.

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

update(title, key)

Update this key.

Warning

As of 20 June 2014, the API considers keys to be immutable. This will soon begin to return MethodNotAllowed errors.

Parameters:

• title (str) – (required), title of the key
• key (str) – (required), text of the key file

Returns:

bool

class github3.users.Plan(json, session)

The Plan object.

Please see GitHub’s Authenticated User documentation for more details.

collaborators_count

Changed in version 1.0.0.

The number of collaborators allowed on this plan

name

The name of the plan on GitHub

private_repos_count

Changed in version 1.0.0.

The number of allowed private repositories

space

The amount of space allotted by this plan

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

is_free()

Check if this is a free plan.

Returns:bool

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

class github3.users.Email(json, session)

The object used to represent an AuthenticatedUser’s email.

Please see GitHub’s Emails documentation for more information.

The attributes represented on this object include:

email

The email address as a string

verified

A boolean value representing whether the address has been verified or not

primary

A boolean value representing whether the address is the primary address for the user or not

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

Internals

Decorators

This part of the documentation covers the decorators module which contains all of the decorators used in github3.py.

Warning

These decorators are only to be used internally in development of this library.

Decorator Functions

github3.decorators.requires_auth(x)

github3.decorators.requires_basic_auth(x)

github3.decorators.requires_app_credentials(func)

Require client_id and client_secret to be associated.

This is used to note and enforce which methods require a client_id and client_secret to be used.

Models

This part of the documentation covers a lot of lower-level objects that are never directly seen or used by the user (developer). They are documented for future developers of this library.

Warning

These classes are only to be used internally in development of this library.

class github3.models.GitHubCore(json, session)

The base object for all objects that require a session.

The GitHubCore object provides some basic attributes and methods to other sub-classes that are very useful to have.

as_dict()

Return the attributes for this object as a dictionary.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.loads(obj.as_json())

Returns:this object’s attributes serialized to a dictionary Return type:dict

as_json()

Return the json data for this object.

This is equivalent to calling:

json.dumps(obj.as_dict())

Returns:this object’s attributes as a JSON string Return type:str

classmethod from_dict(json_dict, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json_dict.

classmethod from_json(json, session)

Return an instance of this class formed from json.

new_session()

Generate a new session.

Returns:A brand new session Return type:GitHubSession

ratelimit_remaining

Number of requests before GitHub imposes a ratelimit.

Returns:int

refresh(conditional=False)

Re-retrieve the information for this object.

The reasoning for the return value is the following example:

repos = [r.refresh() for r in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]

Without the return value, that would be an array of None’s and you would otherwise have to do:

repos = [r for i in g.repositories_by('kennethreitz')]
[r.refresh() for r in repos]

Which is really an anti-pattern.

Changed in version 0.5.

Parameters:conditional (bool) – If True, then we will search for a stored header (‘Last-Modified’, or ‘ETag’) on the object and send that as described in the Conditional Requests section of the docs Returns:self

Version History

Release Notes and History

All of the release notes that have been recorded for github3.py are organized here with the newest releases first.

1.x Release Series

1.2.0: unreleased

This is a small release with some enhancments.

Features Added

• Organization Invitations Preview API is now supported. This includes an additional Invitation object. This is the result of hard work by Hal Wine.
• A ShortLabel class was added to represent the shorter (description-less) representation of labels returned by the API.
• The branch protections API is now completely represented in github3.py.

1.1.0: 2018-04-09

This is a small release with some enhancments.

Features Added

• Repository collaborators now returns a users.Collaborator object, instead of a users.ShortUser object. This is to support collaborator affiliations. A refresh call of this object (and users.Contributor) will result in a full users.User object.
• The call to iterate collaborators of a repository (Repsitory#collaborators) can now take an affiliation filter with options of outside, direct, and all. The default is all, which preserves the previous behavior of this method.

Bugs Fixed

• Parse certain attributes on IssueEvent into objects (again, this was a regression in 1.0)
• Handle older GitHub Enterprise responses for authenticated user objects
• Handle large file pull request responses not including a patch attribute

1.0.2: 2018-03-28

Bugs Fixed

• Handle 304s from users passing etag
• Generate _api attribute for ShortBranch objects
• Require auth for creating gists
• Ensure only desired auth scheme is used with requests
• Handle older GitHub Enterprise responses for repository objects

1.0.1: 2018-03-14

Bugs Fixed

• Fix missing python-dateutil requirement when installing from a wheel.

1.0.0: 2018-03-13

1.0.0 is a huge release. It includes a great deal of changes to github3.py. It is suggested you read the following release notes carefully.

Unfortunately, it’s plausible that some things have slipped through the cracks in these release notes.

Breaking Changes

• Methods that iterate over collections return a separate class than methods that retrieve a single instance. These objects have separate representations when retrieving the data from GitHub’s API. They include:

  • Team now can be represented by ShortTeam or Team
  • Organization now can be represented by ShortOrganization or Organization
  • Issue now can be represented by ShortIssue or Issue
  • PullRequest now can be represented by ShortPullRequest or PullRequest
  • Commit now can be represented by ShortCommit, or Commit
  • Gist now can be represented by ShortGist, GistFork, or Gist
  • GistFile now can be represented by ShortGistFile or GistFile
  • Repository objects:
    • Branch now can be represented by ShortBranch or Branch
    • RepoComment now can be represented by ShortComment or ShortRepoComment
    • Repository now can be represented by ShortRepository or Repository
    • RepoCommit now can be represented by MiniCommit, ShortCommit, or RepoCommit
    • Status now can be represented by ShortStatus or Status
  • User now can be represented by ShortUser, Contributor, User, or AuthenticatedUser
  • License now can be represented by ShortLicense or License

• Refreshing a short representation of an object will result in a new object of a new class returned. For example:

  import github3
  users = [(u, u.refresh()) for u in github3.all_users(10)]
  for short_user, user in users:
      assert isinstance(short_user, github3.users.ShortUser)
      assert isinstance(user, github3.users.User)
  

• Remove Thread.comment, Thread.thread, Thread.urls attributes.

• Remove Thread#is_unread method. Use the Thread.unread attribute instead.

• Subscription has been split into two objects: ThreadSubscription and RepositorySubscription with the same methods.

• Remove is_ignored method from our Subscription objects. Use the ignored attribute instead.

• Remove is_subscribed method from our Subscription objects. Use the subscribed attribute instead.

• Move Users#add_email_addresses to GitHub#add_email_addresses.

• Move Users#delete_email_addresses to GitHub#delete_email_addresses.

• Remove Users#add_email_address and Users#delete_email_address.

• Remove Repository#update_label.

• When you download a release asset, instead of returning True or False, it will return the name of the file in which it saved the asset.

• The download method on github3.pulls.PullFile instances has been removed.

• The contents method on github3.pulls.PullFile instances now return instances of github3.repos.contents.Contents.

• Replace Repository#comments_on_commit with RepoCommit#comments.

• Organization#add_member has been changed. The second parameter has been changed to team_id and now expects an integer.

• Organization#add_repository has been changed. The second parameter has been changed to team_id and now expects an integer.

• All methods and functions starting with iter_ have been renamed.

Old name	New name
github3.iter_all_repos	github3.all_repositories
github3.iter_all_users	github3.all_users
github3.iter_events	github3.all_events
github3.iter_followers	github3.followers_of
github3.iter_following	github3.followed_by
github3.iter_repo_issues	github3.issues_on
github3.iter_orgs	github3.organizations_with
github3.iter_user_repos	github3.repositories_by
github3.iter_starred	github3.starred_by
github3.iter_subscriptions	github3.subscriptions_for
Deployment#iter_statuses	Deployment#statuses
Gist#iter_comments	Gist#comments
Gist#iter_commits	Gist#commits
Gist#iter_files	Gist#files
Gist#iter_forks	Gist#forks
GitHub#iter_all_repos	GitHub#all_repositories
GitHub#iter_all_users	GitHub#all_users
GitHub#iter_authorizations	GitHub#authorizations
GitHub#iter_emails	GitHub#emails
GitHub#iter_events	GitHub#events
GitHub#iter_followers	GitHub#{followers,followers_of}
GitHub#iter_following	GitHub#{following,followed_by}
GitHub#iter_gists	GitHub#{gists,gists_by,public_gists}
GitHub#iter_notifications	GitHub#notifications
GitHub#iter_org_issues	GitHub#organization_issues
GitHub#iter_issues	GitHub#issues
GitHub#iter_user_issues	GitHub#user_issues
GitHub#iter_repo_issues	GitHub#issues_on
GitHub#iter_keys	GitHub#keys
GitHub#iter_orgs	GitHub#{organizations,organizations_with}
GitHub#iter_repos	GitHub#reposistories
GitHub#iter_user_repos	GitHub#repositories_by
GitHub#iter_user_teams	GitHub#user_teams
Issue#iter_comments	Issue#comments
Issue#iter_events	Issue#events
Issue#iter_labels	Issue#labels
Milestone#iter_labels	Milestone#labels
Organization#iter_members	Organization#members
Organization#iter_public_members	Organization#public_members
Organization#iter_repos	Organization#repositories
Organization#iter_teams	Organization#teams
PullRequest#iter_comments	PullRequest#review_comments
PullRequest#iter_commits	PullRequest#commits
PullRequest#iter_files	PullRequest#files
PullRequest#iter_issue_comments	PullRequest#issue_comments
Team#iter_members	Team#members
Team#iter_repos	Team#repositories
Repository#iter_assignees	Repository#assignees
Repository#iter_branches	Repository#branches
Repository#iter_code_frequency	Repository#code_frequency
Repository#iter_collaborators	Repository#collaborators
Repository#iter_comments	Repository#comments
Repository#iter_comments_on_commit	RepoCommit#comments
Repository#iter_commit_activity	Repository#commit_activity
Repository#iter_commits	Repository#commits
Repository#iter_contributor_statistics	Repository#contributor_statistics
Repository#iter_contributors	Repository#contributors
Repository#iter_forks	Repository#forks
Repository#iter_hooks	Repository#hooks
Repository#iter_issues	Repository#issues
Repository#iter_issue_events	Repository#issue_events
Repository#iter_keys	Repository#keys
Repository#iter_labels	Repository#labels
Repository#iter_languages	Repository#languages
Repository#iter_milestones	Repository#milestones
Repository#iter_network_events	Repository#network_events
Repository#iter_notifications	Repository#notifications
Repository#iter_pages_builds	Repository#pages_builds
Repository#iter_pulls	Repository#pull_requests
Repository#iter_refs	Repository#refs
Repository#iter_releases	Repository#releases
Repository#iter_stargazers	Repository#stargazers
Repository#iter_subscribers	Repository#subscribers
Repository#iter_statuses	Repository#statuses
Repository#iter_tags	Repository#tags
Repository#iter_teams	Repository#teams
Repository#iter_teams	Repository#teams
User#iter_events	User#events
User#iter_followers	User#followers
User#iter_following	User#following
User#iter_keys	User#keys
User#iter_org_events	User#organization_events
User#iter_received_events	User#received_events
User#iter_orgs	User#organizations
User#iter_starred	User#starred_repositories
User#iter_subscriptions	User#subscriptions

• github3.login has been simplified and split into two functions:
  • github3.login serves the majority use case and only provides an authenticated GitHub object.
  • github3.enterprise_login allows GitHub Enterprise users to log into their service.
• GitHub#iter_followers was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#followers_of which iterates over all of the followers of a user whose username you provide
  • GitHub#followers which iterates over all of the followers of the authenticated user
• GitHub#iter_following was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#followed_by which iterates over all of the users followed by the username you provide
  • GitHub#following which iterates over all of the users followed by the authenticated user
• GitHub#iter_gists was split into three functions:
  • GitHub#public_gists which iterates over all of the public gists on GitHub
  • GitHub#gists_for which iterates over all the public gists of a specific user
  • GitHub#gists which iterates over the authenticated users gists
• GitHub#iter_orgs was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#organizations which iterates over the authenticated user’s organization memberships
  • GitHub#organizations_with which iterates over the given user’s organization memberships
• GitHub#iter_subscriptions was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#subscriptions_for which iterates over an arbitrary user’s subscriptions
  • GitHub#subscriptions which iterates over the authenticated user’s subscriptions
• GitHub#iter_starred was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#starred_by which iterates over an arbitrary user’s stars
  • GitHub#starred which iterates over the authenticated user’s stars
• GitHub#user was split into two functions:
  • GitHub#user which retrieves an arbitrary user’s information
  • GitHub#me which retrieves the authenticated user’s information
• GitHub#update_user has been renamed to GitHub#update_me and only uses 1 API call now. It was renamed to reflect the addition of GitHub#me.
• The legacy watching API has been removed:
  • GitHub#subscribe
  • GitHub#unsubscribe
  • GitHub#is_subscribed
• GitHub#create_repo was renamed to GitHub#create_repository
• GitHub#delete_key was removed. To delete a key retrieve it with GitHub#key and then call Key#delete.
• Repository#set_subscription was split into two simpler functions
  • Repository#subscribe subscribes the authenticated user to the repository’s notifications
  • Repository#ignore ignores notifications from the repository for the authenticated user
• Repository#contents was split into two simpler functions
  • Repository#file_contents returns the contents of a file object
  • Repository#directory_contents returns the contents of files in a directory.
• Organization#add_repo and Team#add_repo have been renamed to Organization#add_repository and Team#add_repository respectively.
• Organization#create_repo has been renamed to Organization#create_repository. It no longer accepts has_downloads. It now accepts license_template.
• Organization#remove_repo has been renamed to Organization#remove_repository. It now accepts team_id instead of team.
• github3.ratelimit_remaining was removed
• GitHub instances can no longer be used as context managers
• The pull request API has changed.
  • The links attribute now contains the raw _links attribute from the API.
  • The merge_commit_sha attribute has been removed since it was deprecated in the GitHub API.
  • To present a more consistent universal API, certain attributes have been renamed.

Old name	New attribute name
PullFile.additions	additions_count
PullFile.deletions	deletions_count
PullFile.changes	changes_count
PullRequest.additions	additions_count
PullRequest.comments	comments_count
PullRequest.commits	commits_count
PullRequest.deletions	deletions_count
PullRequest.review_comments	review_comments_count

• The Gist API has changed.

  • The forks and files attributes that used to keep count of the number of forks and files have been removed.
  • The comments attribute which provided the number of comments on a gist, has been renamed to comments_count.
  • The is_public method has been removed since it just returned the Gist.public attribute.

• Most instances of login as a parameter have been changed to username for clarity and consistency. This affects the following methods:

  • github3.authorize
  • github3.repositories_by
  • github3.user
  • GitHub
  • GitHub#authorize
  • GitHub#follow
  • GitHub#is_following
  • GitHub#is_starred
  • GitHub#issue
  • GitHub#followers_of
  • GitHub#followed_by
  • GitHub#gists_by
  • GitHub#issues_on
  • GitHub#organizations_with
  • GitHub#starred_by
  • GitHub#subscriptions_for
  • GitHub#user
  • GitHubEnterprise
  • Issue#assign
  • Organization#add_member
  • Organization#is_member
  • Organization#is_public_member
  • Organization#remove_member
  • Repository#add_collaborator
  • Repository#is_assignee
  • Repository#is_collaborator
  • Repository#remove_collaborator
  • Team#add_member
  • Team#is_member
  • User#is_assignee_on
  • User#is_following

• Repository.stargazers is now Repository.stargazers_count (conforming with the attribute name returned by the API).

• The Issue API has changed in order to provide a more consistent attribute API. Issue.comments is now Issue.comments_count and returns the number of comments on an issue.

• The Issue.labels attribute has also been renamed. It is now available from Issue.original_labels. This will provide the user with the list of Label objects that was returned by the API. To retrieve an updated list of labels, the user can now use Issue#labels, e.g.

  i = github3.issue('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py', 30)
  labels = list(i.labels())
  

• The Organization and User APIs have changed to become more consistent with the rest of the library and GitHub API. The following attribute names have been changed

Old name	New attribute name
Organization.followers	followers_count
Organization.following	following_count
Organization.public_repos	public_repos_count
User.followers	followers_count
User.following	following_count
User.public_repos	public_repos_count

• The Release.assets attribute has been renamed to Release.original_assets. To retrieve up-to-date assets, use the Release#assets method.
• The Authorization API has changed. The update method has been split into three methods: add_scopes, remove_scopes, replace_scopes. This highlights the fact that Authorization#update used to require more than one request.
• Event#is_public has been removed. Simply check the event’s public attribute instead.
• Repository#delete_file and Repository#update_file have been removed. Simply delete or update a file using the Contents API.
• Content#delete now returns a dictionary that matches the JSON returned by the API. It contains the Contents and the Commit associated with the deletion.
• Content#update now returns a dictionary that matches the JSON returned by the API. It contains the Contents and the Commit associated with the deletion.
• Issue.pull_request has been renamed to Issue.pull_request_urls

New Features

• Most objects now have a session attribute. This is a subclass of a Session object from requests. This can now be used in conjunction with a third-party caching mechanism. The suggested caching library is cachecontrol.

• All object’s url attribute are now available.

• You can now retrieve a repository by its id with GitHub#repository_with_id.

• You can call the pull_request method on an Issue now to retrieve the associated pull request:

  import github3
  
  i = github3.issue('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py', 301)
  pr = i.pull_request()
  

• Add support for the Issue locking API currently in Preview Mode

• Add Organization#all_events.

• Add Tag.tagger_as_User which attempts to return the tagger as as User.

• Add Repo.statuses and a corresponding repo.status.CombinedStatus to

• Support filtering organization members by whether they have 2FA enabled.

• Support filtering organization and team members by role.

• Add GitHub#all_organizations.

• Add PullRequest#create_comment.

• Add Repository#release_by_tag_name to retrieve a Release from a Repository by its associated tag name.

• Add Repository#latest_release to retrieve the latest Release for a Repository.

• Add GitHub#license to retrieve a github3.license.License by the license name.

• Add GitHub#licenses to iterate over all the licenses returned by GitHub’s Licenses API.

• Add protection information to github3.repos.branch.Branch.

• Add Branch#protect and Branch#unprotect to support updating a Branch’s protection status.

• Vastly improved GitHub Enterprise support:

  • Add User#rename to rename a user in a GitHub Enterprise installation.
  • Add GitHub#create_user to create a user.
  • Add User#impersonate to create an impersonation token by an admin for a particular user.
  • Add User#revoke_impersonation to revoke all impersonation tokens for a user.
  • Add User#promote to promote a particular user to a site administrator.
  • Add User#demote to demote a site administrator to a simple user.
  • Add User#suspend to suspend a user’s account.
  • Add User#unsuspend to reinstate a user’s account.

• Add original_content attribute to a GistFile

• Add GistFile#content to retrieve the contents of a file in a gist from the API.

• Add support for the alpha bulk issue import API

• You can now download a file in a pull request to a file on disk.

• You can retrieve the contents of the file in a pull request as bytes.

• Add id attribute to github3.repos.milestone.Milestone.

• Add support for sort, direction, and since parameters to the comments method on github3.issues.Issue.

• Add branch argument to update and delete methods on github3.repos.contents.Contents.

• Add permissions attribute to github3.repos.repo.Repository object to retrieve the permissions for a specific repository.

• Allow a deployment to be retrieved by its id.

• Add the delete method to the github3.repos.release.Asset class.

Bugs Fixed

• Fix the dependencies and requirements. In 1.0.0a3 we moved to using the setup.cfg file to define optional dependencies for wheels. By doing so we accidentally left out our actual hard dependencies.
• The context parameter to Repository#create_status now properly defaults to "default".
• Fix AttributeError when IssueEvent has assignee.
• Correctly set the message attribute on RepoCommit instances.
• Include browser_download_url on Asset instances.
• (Packaging related) Fix setup.py to use proper values for certain parameters.
• Fix ValueError for Repository#create_file.
• Pull request files can now be downloaded even when the repository is private.
• Fix exception when merging a pull request with an empty commit message.
• Add missing Issue events.
• Coerce review comment positions to integers.

Deprecations and Other Changes

• Deprecate Organization#events in favor of Organization#public_events.
• Fix test failtures on windows caused by unclosed file handles. get a combined view of commit statuses for a given ref.
• The refresh method will eventually stop updating the instance in place and instead only return new instances of objects.

0.x Release Series

0.9.3: 2014-11-04

• Backport of PullRequest#create_review_comment by Adrian Moisey
• Backport of PullRequest#review_comments by Adrian Moisey
• Backport of a fix that allows authenticated users to download Release Assets. Original bug reported by Eugene Fidelin in issue #288.
• Documentation typo fix by Marc Abramowitz

0.9.2: 2014-10-05

• Updates for new team management API changes
  • Add Team#invite, Team#membership_for, and Team#revoke_membership
  • Deprecate Team#add_member, Team#remove_member, and Organization#add_member.
  • Update payload handler for TeamAddEvent.

0.9.1: 2014-08-10

• Correct Repository attribute fork_count should be forks_count

0.9.0: 2014-05-04

• Add Deployments API
• Add Pages API
• Add support so applications can revoke a single authorization or all authorizations created by the application
• Add the ability for users to ping hooks
• Allow users to list a Repository’s collaborators
• Allow users to create an empty blob on a Repository
• Update how users can list issues and pull requests. See: http://developer.github.com/changes/2014-02-28-issue-and-pull-query-enhancements/ This includes breaking changes to Repository#iter_pulls.
• Update methods to handle the pagination changes.
• Fix typo stargarzers_url
• Add assets attribute to Release object.
• Fix wrong argument to Organization#create_team (permissions versus permission)
• Fix Issue Search Result’s representation and initialization
• Fix Repository Search Result’s initialization
• Allow users to pass a two-factor authentication callback to GitHub#authorize.

0.8.2: 2014-02-11

• Fix bug in GitHub#search_users (and github3.search_users). Thanks @abesto
• Expose the stargazers count for repositories. Thanks @seveas

0.8.1: 2014-01-26

• Add documentation for using Two Factor Authentication
• Fix oversight where github3.login could not be used for 2FA

0.8.0: 2014-01-03

• Breaking Change Remove legacy search API

  I realize this should have been scheduled for 1.0 but I was a bit eager to remove this.

• Use Betamax to start recording integration tests

• Add support for Releases API

• Add support for Feeds API

• Add support for Two-Factor Authentication via the API

• Add support for New Search API

  • Add github3.search_code, github3.search_issues, github3.search_repositories, github3.search_users
  • Add GitHub#search_code, GitHub#search_issues, GitHub#search_repositories, GitHub#search_users

• Switch to requests >= 2.0

• Totally remove all references to the Downloads API

• Fix bug in Repository#update_file where branch was not being sent to the API. Thanks @tpetr!

• Add GitHub#rate_limit to return all of the information from the /rate_limit endpoint.

• Catch missing attributes – diff_hunk, original_commit_id – on ReviewComment.

• Add support for the Emojis endpoint

• Note deprecation of a few object attributes

• Add support for the ReleaseEvent

• Add GitHub#iter_user_teams to return all of the teams the authenticated user belongs to

0.7.1: 2013-09-30

• Add dependency on uritemplate.py to add URITemplates to different classes. See the documentation for attributes which are templates.
• Fixed issue trying to parse html_url on Pull Requests courtesy of @rogerhu.
• Remove expecter as a test dependency courtesy of @esacteksab.
• Fixed issue #141 trying to find an Event that doesn’t exist.

0.7.0: 2013-05-19

• Fix Issue.close, Issue.reopen, and Issue.assign. (Issue #106)

• Add check_authorization to the GitHub class to cover the new part of the API.

• Add create_file, update_file, delete_file, iter_contributor_statistics, iter_commit_activity, iter_code_frequency and weekly_commit_count to the Repository object.

• Add update and delete methods to the Contents object.

• Add is_following to the User object.

• Add head, base parameters to Repository.iter_pulls.

• The signature of Hook.edit has changed since that endpoint has changed as well. See: github/developer.github.com@b95f291a47954154a6a8cd7c2296cdda9b610164

• github3.GitHub can now be used as a context manager, e.g.,

  with github.GitHub() as gh:
      u = gh.user('sigmavirus24')
  

0.6.1: 2013-04-06

• Add equality for labels courtesy of Alejandro Gomez (@alejandrogomez)

0.6.0: 2013-04-05

• Add sort and order parameters to github3.GitHub.search_users and github3.GitHub.search_repos.
• Add iter_commits to github3.gists.Gist as a means of re-requesting just the history from GitHub and iterating over it.
• Add minimal logging (e.g., logging.getLogger('github3'))
• Re-organize the library a bit. (Split up repos.py, issues.py, gists.py and a few others into sub-modules for my sanity.)
• Calling refresh(True) on a github3.structs.GitHubIterator actually works as expected now.
• API iter_ methods now accept the etag argument as the GitHub.iter_ methods do.
• Make github3.octocat and github3.github.GitHub.octocat both support sending messages to make the Octocat say things. (Think cowsay)
• Remove vendored dependency of PySO8601.
• Split GitHub.iter_repos into GitHub.iter_user_repos and GitHub.iter_repos. As a consequence github3.iter_repos is now github3.iter_user_repos
• IssueComment.update was corrected to match GitHub’s documentation
• github3.login now accepts an optional url parameter for users of the GitHubEnterprise API, courtesy of Kristian Glass (@doismellburning)
• Several classes now allow their instances to be compared with == and !=. In most cases this will check the unique id provided by GitHub. In others, it will check SHAs and any other guaranteed immutable and unique attribute. The class doc-strings all have information about this and details about how equivalence is determined.

0.5.3: 2013-03-19

• Add missing optional parameter to Repository.contents. Thanks @tpetr

0.5.2: 2013-03-02

• Stop trying to decode the byte strings returned by b64decode. Fixes #72

0.5.1: 2013-02-21

• Hot fix an issue when a user doesn’t have a real name set

0.5.0: 2013-02-16

• 100% (mock) test coverage

• Add support for the announced meta endpoint.

• Add support for conditional refreshing, e.g.,

  import github3
  
  u = github3.user('sigmavirus24')
  
  # some time later
  
  u.refresh()  # Will ALWAYS send a GET request and lower your ratelimit
  u.refresh(True)  # Will send the GET with a header such that if nothing
                   # has changed, it will not count against your ratelimit
                   # otherwise you'll get the updated user object.
  

• Add support for conditional iterables. What this means is that you can do:

  import github3
  
  i = github3.iter_all_repos(10)
  
  for repo in i:
      # do stuff
  
  i = github3.iter_all_repos(10, etag=i.etag)
  

  And the second call will only give you the new repositories since the last request. This mimics behavior in pengwynn/octokit

• Add support for sortable stars.

• In github3.users.User, iter_keys now allows you to iterate over any user’s keys. No name is returned for each key. This is the equivalent of visiting: github.com/:user.keys

• In github3.repos.Repository, pubsubhubbub has been removed. Use github3.github.Github.pubsubhubbub instead

• In github3.api, iter_repo_issues’s signature has been corrected.

• Remove list_{labels, comments, events} methods from github3.issues.Issue

• Remove list_{comments, commits, files} methods from github3.pulls.PullRequest

• In github3.gists.Gist:

  • the user attribute was changed by GitHub and is now the owner attribute
  • the public attribute and the is_public method return the same information. The method will be removed in the next version.
  • the is_starred method now requires authentication
  • the default refresh method is no longer over-ridden. In a change made in before, a generic refresh method was added to most objects. This was overridden in the Gist object and would cause otherwise unexpected results.

• github3.events.Event.is_public() and github3.events.Event.public now return the same information. In the next version, the former will be removed.

• In github3.issues.Issue

  • add_labels now returns the list of Labels on the issue instead of a boolean.
  • remove_label now retuns a boolean.
  • remove_all_labels and replace_labels now return lists. The former should return an empty list on a successful call. The latter should return a list of github3.issue.Label objects.

• Now we won’t get spurious GitHubErrors on 404s, only on other expected errors whilst accessing the json in a response. All methods that return an object can now actually return None if it gets a 404 instead of just raising an exception. (Inspired by #49)

• GitHubStatus API now works.

0.4.0: 2013-01-16

• In github3.legacy.LegacyRepo
  • has_{downloads,issues,wiki} are now attributes.
  • is_private() and the private attribute return the same thing is_private() will be deprecated in the next release.
• In github3.repos.Repository
  • is_fork() is now deprecated in favor of the fork attribute
  • is_private() is now deprecated in favor of the private attribute
• In github3.repos.Hook
  • is_active() is now deprecated in favor of the active attribute
• In github3.pulls.PullRequest
  • is_mergeable() is now deprecated in favor of the mergeable attribute
• In github3.notifications.Thread
  • is_unread() is now deprecated in favor of the unread
• pubsubhubbub() is now present on the GitHub object and will be removed from the Repository object in the next release
• 70% test coverage

0.3.0: 2013-01-01

• In github3.repos.Repository

  • is_fork() and fork return the same thing
  • is_private() and private return the same thing as well
  • has_downloads, has_issues, has_wiki are now straight attributes

• In github3.repos.Hook

  • is_active() and active return the same value

• In github3.pulls.PullRequest

  • is_mergeable() and mergeable are now the same
  • repository now returns a tuple of the login and name of the repository it belongs to

• In github3.notifications.Thread

  • is_unread() and unread are now the same

• In github3.gists

  • GistFile.filename and GistFile.name return the same information
  • Gist.history now lists the history of the gist
  • GistHistory is an object representing one commit or version of the history
  • You can retrieve gists at a specific version with GistHistory.get_gist()

• github3.orgs.Organization.iter_repos now accepts all types

• list_* methods on Organization objects that were missed are now deleted

• Some objects now have __str__ methods. You can now do things like:

  import github3
  u = github3.user('sigmavirus24')
  r = github3.repository(u, 'github3.py')
  

  And

  import github3
  
  repo = github3.repository('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py')
  
  template = """Some kind of template where you mention this repository
  {0}"""
  
  print(template.format(repo))
  # Some kind of template where you mention this repository
  # sigmavirus24/github3.py
  

  Current list of objects with this feature:

  • github3.users.User (uses the login name)
  • github3.users.Key (uses the key text)
  • github3.users.Repository (uses the login/name pair)
  • github3.users.RepoTag (uses the tag name)
  • github3.users.Contents (uses the decoded content)

• 60% test coverage with mock

• Upgrade to requests 1.0.x

0.2.0: 2012-11-21

• MAJOR API CHANGES:
  • GitHub.iter_subscribed –> GitHub.iter_subscriptions
  • Broken list_* functions in github3.api have been renamed to the correct iter_* methods on GitHub.
  • Removed list_* functions from Repository, Gist, Organization, and User objects
• Added zen of GitHub method.
• More tests
• Changed the way Repository.edit works courtesy of Kristian Glass (@doismellburning)
• Changed Repository.contents behaviour when acting on a 404.
• 50% test coverage via mock tests

0.1.0: 2012-11-13

• Add API for GitHub Enterprise customers.

0.1b2: 2012-11-10

• Handle 500 errors better, courtesy of Kristian Glass (@doismellburning)
• Handle sending json with % symbols better, courtesy of Kristian Glass
• Correctly handle non-GitHub committers and authors courtesy of Paul Swartz (@paulswartz)
• Correctly display method signatures in documentation courtesy of (@seveas)

0.1b1: 2012-10-31

• unit tests implemented using mock instead of hitting the GitHub API (#37)
• removed list_* functions from GitHub object
• Notifications API coverage

0.1b0: 2012-10-06

• Support for the complete GitHub API (accomplished)
  • Now also includes the Statuses API
  • Also covers the auto_init parameters to the Repository creation methodology
  • Limited implementation of iterators in the place of list functions.
• 98% coverage by unit tests

Contributing

All developlment happens on GitHub. Please remember to add yourself to the list of contributors in AUTHORS.rst, especially if you’re going to be working on the list below.

Contributor Friendly Work

In order of importance:

Documentation

I know I’m not the best at writing documentation so if you want to clarify or correct something, please do so.

Examples

Have a clever example that takes advantage of github3.py? Feel free to share it.

Otherwise, feel free to example the list of issues where we would like help and feel free to take one.

Running the Unittests

The tests are generally run using tox. Tox can be installed lke so

pip install tox

We test against PyPy and the following versions of Python:

• 2.7
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6

If you simply run tox it will run tests against all of these versions of python and run flake8 against the codebase as well. If you want to run against one specific version, you can do

tox -e py36

And if you want to run tests against a specific file, you can do

tox -e py36 -- tests/unit/test_github.py

To run the tests, tox uses py.test so you can pass any options or parameters to py.test after specifying --. For example, you can get more verbose output by doing

tox -e py36 -- -vv

Writing Tests for github3.py

Unit Tests

In computer programming, unit testing is a method by which individual units of source code, sets of one or more computer program modules together with associated control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures are tested to determine if they are fit for use. Intuitively, one can view a unit as the smallest testable part of an application.

—Unit Testing on Wikipedia

In github3.py we use unit tests to make assertions about how the library behaves without making a request to the internet. For example, one assertion we might write would check if custom information is sent along in a request to GitHub.

An existing test like this can be found in tests/unit/test_repos_release.py:

def test_delete(self):
    self.instance.delete()
    self.session.delete.assert_called_once_with(
        self.example_data['url'],
        headers={'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.manifold-preview'}
    )

In this test, we check that the library passes on important headers to the API to ensure the request will work properly. self.instance is created for us and is an instance of the Release class. The test then calls delete to make a request to the API. self.session is a mock object which fakes out a normal session. It does not allow the request through but allows us to verify how github3.py makes a request. We can see that github3.py called delete on the session. We assert that it was only called once and that the only parameters sent were a URL and the custom headers that we are concerned with.

Mocks

Above we talked about mock objects. What are they?

In object-oriented programming, mock objects are simulated objects that mimic the behavior of real objects in controlled ways. A programmer typically creates a mock object to test the behavior of some other object, in much the same way that a car designer uses a crash test dummy to simulate the dynamic behavior of a human in vehicle impacts.

—Mock Object on Wikipedia

We use mocks in github3.py to prevent the library from talking directly with GitHub. The mocks we use intercept requests the library makes so we can verify the parameters we use. In the example above, we were able to check that certain parameters were the only ones sent to a session method because we mocked out the session.

You may have noticed in the example above that we did not have to set up the mock object. There is a convenient helper written in tests/unit/helper.py to do this for you.

Example - Testing the Release Object

Here’s a full example of how we test the Release object in tests/unit/test_repos_release.py.

Our first step is to import the UnitHelper class from tests/unit/helper.py and the Release object from github3/repos/release.py.

from .helper import UnitHelper
from github3.repos.release import Release

Then we construct our test class and indicate which class we will be testing (or describing).

class TestRelease(UnitHelper):
    described_class = Release

We can then use the GitHub API documentation about Releases to retrieve example release data. We then can use that as example data for our test like so:

class TestRelease(UnitHelper):
    described_class = Release
    example_data = {
        "url": releases_url("/1"),
        "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/releases/v1.0.0",
        "assets_url": releases_url("/1/assets"),
        "upload_url": releases_url("/1/assets{?name}"),
        "id": 1,
        "tag_name": "v1.0.0",
        "target_commitish": "master",
        "name": "v1.0.0",
        "body": "Description of the release",
        "draft": False,
        "prerelease": False,
        "created_at": "2013-02-27T19:35:32Z",
        "published_at": "2013-02-27T19:35:32Z"
        }

The above code now will handle making clean and brand new instances of the Release object with the example data and a faked out session. We can now construct our first test.

def test_delete(self):
    self.instance.delete()
    self.session.delete.assert_called_once_with(
        self.example_data['url'],
        headers={'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.manifold-preview'}
    )

Integration Tests

Integration testing is the phase in software testing in which individual software modules are combined and tested as a group.

The purpose of integration testing is to verify functional, performance, and reliability requirements placed on major design items.

—Integration tests on Wikipedia

In github3.py we use integration tests to ensure that when we make what should be a valid request to GitHub, it is in fact valid. For example, if we were testing how github3.py requests a user’s information, we would expect a request for a real user’s data to be valid. If the test fails we know either what the library is doing is wrong or the data requested does not exist.

An existing test that demonstrates integration testing can be found in tests/integration/test_repos_release.py:

def test_iter_assets(self):
    """Test the ability to iterate over the assets of a release."""
    cassette_name = self.cassette_name('iter_assets')
    with self.recorder.use_cassette(cassette_name):
        repository = self.gh.repository('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py')
        release = repository.release(76677)
        for asset in release.iter_assets():
            assert isinstance(asset, github3.repos.release.Asset)
        assert asset is not None

In this test we use self.recorder to record our interaction with GitHub. We then proceed to make the request to GitHub that will exercise the code we wish to test. First we request a Repository object from GitHub and then using that we request a Release object. After receiving that release, we exercise the code that lists the assets of a Release. We verify that each asset is an instance of the Asset class and that at the end the asset variable is not None. If asset was None, that would indicate that GitHub did not return any data and it did not exercise the code we are trying to test.

Betamax

Betamax is the library that we use to create the recorder above. It sets up the session object to intercept every request and corresponding response and save them to what it calls cassettes. After you record the interaction it never has to speak to the internet again for that request.

In github3.py there is a helper class (much like UnitHelper) in tests/integration/helper.py which sets everything up for us.

Example - Testing the Release Object

Here’s an example of how we write an integration test for github3.py. The example can be found in tests/integration/test_repos_release.py.

Our first steps are the necessary imports.

import github3

from .helper import IntegrationHelper

Then we start writing our test right away.

class TestRelease(IntegrationHelper):
    def test_delete(self):
        """Test the ability to delete a release."""
        self.token_login()
        cassette_name = self.cassette_name('delete')
        with self.recorder.use_cassette(cassette_name):
            repository = self.gh.repository('github3py', 'github3.py')
            release = repository.create_release(
                '0.8.0.pre', 'develop', '0.8.0 fake release',
                'To be deleted'
                )
            assert release is not None
            assert release.delete() is True

Every test has access to self.gh which is an instance of GitHub. IntegrationHelper provides a lot of methods that allow you to focus on what we are testing instead of setting up for the test. The first of those methods we see in use is self.token_login which handles authenticating with a token. It’s sister method is self.basic_login which handles authentication with basic credentials. Both of these methods will set up the authentication for you on self.gh.

The next convenience method we see is self.cassette_name. It constructs a cassette name for you based on the test class name and the string you provide it.

Every test also has access to self.recorder. This is the Betamax recorder that has been set up for you to record your interactions. The recorder is started when you write

with self.recorder.use_cassette(cassette_name):
    # ...

Everything that talks to GitHub should be written inside of the context created by the context manager there. No requests to GitHub should be made outside of that context.

In that context, we then retrieve a repository and create a release for it. We want to be sure that we will be deleting something that exists so we assert that what we received back from GitHub is not None. Finally we call delete and assert that it returns True.

When you write your new test and record a new cassette, be sure to add the new cassette file to the repository, like so:

git add tests/cassettes/Release_delete.json

Recording Cassettes that Require Authentication/Authorization

If you need to write a test that requires an Authorization (i.e., oAuth token) or Authentication (i.e., username and password), all you need to do is set environment variables when running py.test, e.g.,

GH_AUTH="abc123" py.test
GH_USER="sigmavirus24" GH_PASSWORD="super-secure-password-plz-kthxbai" py.test

If you are concerned that your credentials will be saved, you need not worry. Betamax sanitizes information like that before saving the cassette. It never does hurt to double check though.

Contact

• Twitter: @sigmavirus24
• Private email: graffatcolmingov [at] gmail