https://github.com/simonw/github-contents

Python class for reading and writing data to a GitHub repository
https://github.com/simonw/github-contents

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Python class for reading and writing data to a GitHub repository

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/simonw/github-contents
• Owner: simonw
• Created: 2019-06-09T19:10:59.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-02-24T18:34:49.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T23:17:31.999Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: github, githubapi
• Language: Python
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• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 20
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 7
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  • Readme: README.md

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# github-contents

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Read and write both small and large files to Github.

The regular [GitHub Contents API](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/) can't handle files larger than 1MB - this class knows how to spot that problem and switch to the large-file-supporting low level [Git Data API](https://developer.github.com/v3/git/) instead.

Note that file contents is passed and returned as bytestrings, not regular strings.

## Installation

    pip install github-contents

## Usage

You will need a GitHub OAuth token with full repository access.

The easiest way to create one of these is using [https://github.com/settings/tokens](https://github.com/settings/tokens)

```python

from github_contents import GithubContents

# For repo simonw/disaster-data:

github = GithubContents(

    "simonw",

    "disaster-data",

    token=GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN,

    branch="main"

)

```

To read a file:

```python

content_in_bytes, sha = github.read(path_within_repo)

```

To write a file:

```python

content_sha, commit_sha = github.write(

    filepath=path_within_repo,

    content_bytes=contents_in_bytes,

    sha=previous_sha, # Optional

    commit_message=commit_message,

    committer={

        "name": COMMITTER_NAME,

        "email": COMMITTER_EMAIL,

    },

)

```