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'