access GitHub repositories by Python

README.getGithubRepo.md

I choose a public repository^{awesome-python} as an example

suppose you want to access master/docs/CNAME contents

Important Document

GitHub REST API

You can find the settings, for example

• Branches
• Collaborators
• Comments
• commits
• Contents
• ...

getGithubRepo.py

import requests
token = "MY_SECRET_TOKEN"
owner = 'vinta'
repo = 'awesome-python'
path = 'docs/CNAME'
branch = 'master' # or sha1, for example: 6831740

url = f'https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/{path}?ref={branch}'
print(url)
r = requests.get(url,
      headers={
        'accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3.raw',
        # 'authorization': f'token {token}', # If you are want to read "public" only, then you can ignore this line.
      }
    )
print(r.text)

"""
Type
r.text: str
r.content: bytes
"""

# If you want to save it as a file, then you can try as below.
# f=open('temp.ico','wb')
# f.write(r.content)