update code to use GitHub API

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update code to use GitHub API

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 2 comments

functions that interact with GitHub should interact with GitHub using the official API. There's a python package that streamlines that. See PyGitHub

fernandogelin commented 6 years ago

closed.

Answer 1 · 2018-10-31T14:33:31.000Z

@andrew-leith when refactoring the functions to use the GitHub API, use the request library instead of urllib2. requests is newer, more powerful, and works with python 3.