.. module:: github2.client

.. autoclass:: github2.client.Github
   :exclude-members:
    get_network_meta, get_network_data, get_all_blobs, get_blob_info, get_tree

There are three ways to authenticate to the GitHub API. If you want to use your username and API token, use:

>>> from github2.client import Github
>>> github = Github(username="ask", api_token=".......")

If you authenticated to GitHub using their OAuth service, pass in the OAuth access token:

>>> github = Github(access_token="........")

Or for an unauthenticated connection:

>>> github = Github()

The package supports caching of GitHub responses by adding a cache keyword during setup:

>>> github = Github(username="ask", api_token=".......", cache="cache_dir")

API calls are limited by github.com to 1 per second by default. To have the Github client enforce this and avoid rate limit errors, pass requests_per_second in:

>>> from github2.client import Github
>>> github = Github(username="ask", api_token=".......",
...                 requests_per_second=1)

By default, :pypi:`httplib2 (0.7.4)` will use the proxies set in the :envvar:`http_proxy` andr :envvar:`https_proxy` environment variables. This means that well configured systems shouldn't need any manual configuration for proxy support.

If you wish to manually configure a HTTP proxy you can pass in the proxy_host and proxy_port settings to enable it. The default for proxy_port, if not given, is 8080:

>>> from github2.client import Github
>>> github = Github(username="ask", api_token=".......",
...                 proxy_host="my.proxy.com", proxy_port=9000)

You may specify a GitHub Enterprise URL by passing in the github_url setting. If you do not specify github_url, requests will be made to https://github.com/.

>>> from github2.client import Github
>>> github = Github(username="modocache", api_token=".......",
...                 github_url="http://your-github-enterprise-url.com/")