Read content of file which is in GitHub using PyGitHub

Let’s say “sample.txt” file is in GitHub under the “Demo” repository [Demo/sample.txt]. How can I read the content of sample.txt using PyGitHub instead fetching from the API?

Else, do we have some other package to read such file content?

Answer

You can use this code to see the content of the file:

from github import Github
github = Github('user', 'password')
user = github.get_user()
repository = user.get_repo('Demo')
file_content = repository.get_contents('sample.txt')
print(file_content.decoded_content.decode())

If you need to see more attributes like decoded_content, just type this:

print(help(file_content))