A class to get file content from github repos

GithubProvider.py

import requests 
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

class GithubProvider(object):

	"""docstring for GithubProvider"""

	
	def __init__(self, repo, username, secret_key):
		super(GithubProvider, self).__init__()
		self._repo = repo
		self._username = username
		self.__secret_key = secret_key



	@property
	def __auth(self):
		return HTTPBasicAuth(self._username, self.__secret_key)


	@property
	def base_url(self):
	    base_url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/{}/contents'.format(self._repo)
	    return base_url
	
	def _get_file_uri(self, file_path):
		uri = "{}/{}".format(self.base_url, file_path)
		return uri


	def _request_url(self, url):
		request = requests.get(url, auth=self.__auth)
		return request

	def _get_request(self, file_path):
		url = self._get_file_uri(file_path)
		request = self._request_url(url)
		return request

	def _get_request_json(self, request):
		return request.json()

	def _get_request_text(self, request):
		return request.text

	def _get_download_url(self, request):
		request_json = self._get_request_json(request)
		download_url = request_json.get("download_url")
		return download_url

	def get_file_request(self, file_path):
		request = self._get_request(file_path)
		download_url = self._get_download_url(request)
		file_request = self._request_url(download_url)
		return file_request
	
	
	def get_file_content(self, file_path):

		file_request = self.get_file_request(file_path)

		file_content = self._get_request_text(file_request)

		return file_content

HOW TO GET AN ACCESS TOKEN?

1. Logged with your GitHub account you can navigate to https://github.com/settings/tokens and click on "Generate new token".
2. Give the proper permissions. I gave these ones: