fiftyone.utils.github

GitHub utilities.

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Classes:

GitHubRepository(repo[, safe])

Class for interacting with a GitHub repository.

class fiftyone.utils.github.GitHubRepository(repo, safe=False)

Bases: object

Class for interacting with a GitHub repository.

Note

To interact with private GitHub repositories that you have access to, provide your GitHub personal access token by setting the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.

Parameters

• repo –

  the GitHub repository or identifier, which can be:

  • a GitHub repo URL like https://github.com/<user>/<repo>

  • a GitHub ref like https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/tree/<branch> or https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/commit/<commit>

  • a GitHub ref string like <user>/<repo>[/<ref>]

• safe (False) – whether to allow repo to contain a tree path like https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/tree/<branch>/<path>. If safe=True and a <path> is found, it is extracted and stored in the safe_path() property

Attributes:

user	The username of the repo.
repo	The name of the repo.
ref	The ref (e.g.
safe_path	The path that was extracted from the provided ref, if any.
identifier	The repository identifier string.

Methods:

get_repo_info()	Returns a dict of info about the repository.
get_file(path[, outpath])	Downloads the file at the given path.
list_path_contents([path])	Returns the contents of the repo rooted at the given path.
list_repo_contents([recursive])	Returns a flat list of the repository’s contents.
download(outdir)	Downloads the repository to the specified root directory.
parse_url(url)
parse_identifier(identifier)

property user

The username of the repo.

property repo

The name of the repo.

property ref

The ref (e.g. branch, tag, commit hash), if any.

property safe_path

The path that was extracted from the provided ref, if any.

property identifier

The repository identifier string.

get_repo_info()

Returns a dict of info about the repository.

Returns

an info dict

get_file(path, outpath=None)

Downloads the file at the given path.

Parameters

• path – the filepath in the repository

• outpath (None) – a path on disk to write the file

Returns

the file bytes, if no outpath is provided

list_path_contents(path=None)

Returns the contents of the repo rooted at the given path.

Note

This method has a limit of 1,000 files. Documentation.

Parameters

path (None) – an optional root path to start the search from

Returns

a list of file info dicts

list_repo_contents(recursive=True)

Returns a flat list of the repository’s contents.

Note

This method has a limit of 100,000 entries and 7MB response size. Documentation.

Parameters

recursive (True) – whether to recursively traverse subdirectories

Returns

a list of file info dicts

download(outdir)

Downloads the repository to the specified root directory.

Parameters

outdir – the output directory

static parse_url(url)

static parse_identifier(identifier)