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This package is used to provide a simple python interface for interacting with GitHub. It is based on the official public Rest API documentation and private methods discovered by the community.
This project is documented at https://githubutilsapi.readthedocs.io/
$ pip install github-utils-api
pip install -r requirements.txt
to install the required packagespipenv install && pipenv install --dev
Import this python package and code.
from githubutilsapi import GithubUtilsApi
First of all, I am happy for any PR requests. Let's fork and provide your changes :)
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
For a copy, see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Small library to cover non provided methods by pygithub
We found that github-utils-api demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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