Listing github directory with python

Question

Is there some kind of a web-request or something like that so I can list a directory in my github repository in python? I have to check for few files if they are there and they are pretty large so I don´t want to try to download them in my app. I have to just check if they are there.

The only way to do this that I found is to download the html file and then checking right in that file using BeautifulSoup. But this is not very elegant way to do so. In addition I have some troubles with installing BeautifulSoup package for python.

Right now I am using a txt file in which there are all the dlls listed. I run simple script before each commit that generates this text file.

EDIT: I found a solution with the help of PyGithub

from github import Github

g = Github("token")
for repo in g.search_repositories("XtremeUpdater"):
     for file in repo.get_contents("dir"):
          print(file.name)

Simply check if a GET request returns a 404 or not? On GitHub the URL would be https://github.com/USER/PROJECT/blob/master/path/to/the/file — pawamoy
– pawamoy, Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 14:31
Maybe look at GitHub's API. And if the file is very large, GitHub does not display it. Depends on what your size threshold is. — pawamoy
– pawamoy, Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 14:33
Ok. So I downloaded PyGithub but I can't found anywhere anything about even a directory. — Jakub Bláha
– Jakub Bláha, Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 14:56
In PyGitHub docs: pygithub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/github_objects/… and pygithub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/github_objects/…. — pawamoy
– pawamoy, Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 15:03

Iron Pillow · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-14 17:16:03Z

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Using the get_dir_contents method worked for me:

import github
g = github.Github("USERNAME", "PASSWORD")
repo = g.get_user().get_repo( "REPO_NAME" )
print repo.get_dir_contents("")

answered Mar 14, 2019 at 17:16

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