Anonymous Functional API

This part of the documentation covers the API. This is intended to be a beautifully written module which allows the user (developer) to interact with github4.py elegantly and easily.

Module Contents

To interact with the GitHub API you can either authenticate to access protected functionality or you can interact with it anonymously. Authenticating provides more functionality to the user (developer).

To authenticate, you may use github4.login().

With the GitHub object that is returned you have access to more functionality. See that object’s documentation for more information.

To use the API anonymously, you can also create a new GitHub object, e.g.,

from github4 import GitHub

gh = GitHub()

Enterprise Use

If you’re using github4.py to interact with an enterprise installation of GitHub, you must use the GitHubEnterprise object. Upon initialization, the only parameter you must supply is the URL of your enterprise installation, e.g.

from github4 import GitHubEnterprise

g = GitHubEnterprise('https://github.examplesintl.com')
stats = g.admin_stats('all')
assert 'issues' in stats, ('Key issues is not included in the admin'
                           'statistics')