github-release-cli

Command line tool written in Python for creating Github releases through Github REST API.

Installation / Requirements

$ pip install arestclient
$ git clone [email protected]:sitingren/github-release-cli.git
$ cd github-release-cli

Usage

$ python publish_github_release.py --help
usage: publish_github_release.py [-h] -V VERSION -o OWNER -r REPO -t TOKEN
                                 [-d DESCRIPTION] [-a ASSET] [--draft]
                                 [--prerelease]

Create a release on Github

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V VERSION, --version VERSION
                        release version
  -o OWNER, --owner OWNER
                        Github repo owner
  -r REPO, --repo REPO  Github repo name
  -t TOKEN, --token TOKEN
                        Github access token (with push access)
  -d DESCRIPTION, --description DESCRIPTION
                        Github release description
  -a ASSET, --asset ASSET
                        path to an asset
  --draft               create a draft (unpublished) release
  --prerelease          identify the release as a prerelease

Extensions

auto_release_python.sh is an executable script which is designed to publish Python packages to both Github (via publish_github_release.py) and PyPI.

collect_github_insights.py is a python script which can collect insights (number of views, clones, watchers, stargazers and forks) of a Github repository.