PyGitHub is a Python library to access the GitHub REST API. This library enables you to manage GitHub resources such as repositories, user profiles, and organizations in your Python applications.

pip install PyGithub

from github import Github

# Authentication is defined via github.Auth
from github import Auth

# using an access token
auth = Auth.Token("access_token")

# First create a Github instance:

# Public Web Github
g = Github(auth=auth)

# Github Enterprise with custom hostname
g = Github(base_url="https://{hostname}/api/v3", auth=auth)

# Then play with your Github objects:
for repo in g.get_user().get_repos():
    print(repo.name)

# To close connections after use
g.close()

More information can be found on the PyGitHub documentation site.

Long-term discussion and bug reports are maintained via GitHub Issues. Code review is done via GitHub Pull Requests.

For more information read CONTRIBUTING.md.

We're actively seeking maintainers that will triage issues and pull requests and cut releases. If you work on a project that leverages PyGitHub and have a vested interest in keeping the code alive and well, send an email to someone in the MAINTAINERS file.