How to create(update) file in GitHub repo using GitHub API and Python requests?

问题

I'm creating a new file in GitHub public repo using python. When I try to do this:

import json
import requests

with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
    content = f.read()
    payload = {"message": "Add text.txt",
               "author": {"name": name,"email": email},
               "content": content}
    result = requests.put("https://api.github.com/repos/<GitHubLogin>/<Repo>/contents/README.md", 
                           auth=(name, password), 
                           json=payload)
    print(result.json())

I get "{'message': 'content is not valid Base64', ....}"

If I try to do this:

import base64 
import json
import requests

with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
    content = f.read()
    content = bytes(content, "utf-8")
    contnet = base64.b64encode(content)
    payload = {"message": "Add text.txt",
               "author": {"name": name,"email": email},
               "content": content}
    result = requests.put("https://api.github.com/repos/<GitHubLogin>/<Repo>/contents/README.md", 
                          auth=(name, password), 
                          json=payload)
    print(result.json())

I get

Traceback (most recent call last)
     19     result = requests.put("https://api.github.com/repos/VadymKhodak/tester/contents/README.md", 
     20                           auth=(name, password),
---> 21                           json=payload)

TypeError: Object of type 'bytes' is not JSON serializable

How to solve that issue?

回答1:

I solve this issue!!!

ENCODING = 'utf-8'
with open('README.md', 'rb') as f:
    byte_content = f.read()
    base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(byte_content)
    base64_string = base64_bytes.decode(ENCODING)
    payload = {"message": "Add text.txt",
               "author": {"name": name,"email": email},
               "content": base64_string}
    result = requests.put("https://api.github.com/repos/<GitHubLogin>/<Repo>/contents/README.md", 
                          auth=(name, password), 
                          json=payload)
    print(result.json())

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55663379/how-to-createupdate-file-in-github-repo-using-github-api-and-python-requests

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python-3.x

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