How to create a commit and push into repo with GitHub API v3?

Question

I want to create a repository and Commit a few files to it via any Python package. How do I do?

I do not understand how to add files for commit.

Answer 1

Here is a complete snippet:

def push_to_github(filename, repo, branch, token):
    url="https://api.github.com/repos/"+repo+"/contents/"+filename

    base64content=base64.b64encode(open(filename,"rb").read())

    data = requests.get(url+'?ref='+branch, headers = {"Authorization": "token "+token}).json()
    sha = data['sha']

    if base64content.decode('utf-8')+"\n" != data['content']:
        message = json.dumps({"message":"update",
                            "branch": branch,
                            "content": base64content.decode("utf-8") ,
                            "sha": sha
                            })

        resp=requests.put(url, data = message, headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json", "Authorization": "token "+token})

        print(resp)
    else:
        print("nothing to update")

token = "lskdlfszezeirzoherkzjehrkzjrzerzer"
filename="foo.txt"
repo = "you/test"
branch="master"

push_to_github(filename, repo, branch, token)