Getting Github Repo Filenames Using Python

Question

How do you get a list of all filenames in a Github repo using Python/PyGithub without logging into a user account?

How can I use github.Github(self.login, self.password) if I only know about a user name, not his/her password?

Answer 1

The source code shows that you can keep the password to 'None' when it comes to get a GitHub object.

    def __init__(self, login_or_token, password, base_url, timeout, client_id, client_secret, user_agent, per_page, api_preview):
        self._initializeDebugFeature()

        if password is not None:
            login = login_or_token
            if atLeastPython3:
                self.__authorizationHeader = "Basic " + base64.b64encode((login + ":" + password).encode("utf-8")).decode("utf-8").replace('\n', '')  # pragma no cover (Covered by Authentication.testAuthorizationHeaderWithXxx with Python 3)
            else:
                self.__authorizationHeader = "Basic " + base64.b64encode(login + ":" + password).replace('\n', '')
        elif login_or_token is not None:
            token = login_or_token
            self.__authorizationHeader = "token " + token
        else:
            self.__authorizationHeader = None

That is tested here:

def testLoggingWithoutAuthentication(self):
   self.assertEqual(github.Github().get_user("jacquev6").name, "Vincent Jacques")

From there, you can get any public repo and list their files.

You only need to "login" for private repos.