UnknownGithubObject on get_download() with invalid key about pygithub

[jacquev6]

UnknownGithubObject is the exception I throw when you request an object that doesn't exist. Here, there is no download with id 1 or "foobar" in your repo.

The TypeError you get when calling repo.get_download()is because get_download requires an argument as stated in the reference of classes (See "Downloads" in "class Repository").

So, what argument should you pass to get_downloads? Well, the documentation says id, so you can first call get_downloads which returns a list of Downloads, and look what is Download.id.

The fact is that I have no repository to test this with downloads, but here is an example with issues (g is a Github instance):

>>> g.get_user().get_repo( "PyGithub" ).get_issues()[0].number
23
>>> g.get_user().get_repo( "PyGithub" ).get_issue( 23 )
<github.GithubObjects.GithubObject.GithubObject.Issue instance at 0x10c9aaea8>

(I took the number attribute of the first Issue, because the reference says that get_issue takes a number.)

I hope it helps.

[tallforasmurf]

I hope this report will be useful, however, I am not going to be using this package after all. I discovered (what should have been obvious) that I can get everything I need from github just using urllib and reading the page.

import urllib2
try:
    u = urllib2.urlopen( 'https://github.com/<user>/<public-repo>', timeout=5 )
except:
    #cannot contact github - try later
    #exit
s = u.read()
u.close()

It's all there, file names, SHA, last commit date, and if I want to read file data, no need to decode a blob, it's at https://raw.github.com/<user>/<public-repo>/master/<filename>