twython vs PyGitHub

twython

Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs. (by ryanmcgrath)

Third-party APIs

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PyGitHub

Typed interactions with the GitHub API v3 (by PyGithub)

Third-party APIs Pygithub Python Github github-api

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twython		PyGitHub
	Project
1	Mentions	9
1,847	Stars	6,683
-	Growth	1.6%
0.0	Activity	9.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

twython

Posts with mentions or reviews of twython. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

pysmashgg: A New Python Wrapper for smash.gg's new API!
1 project | /r/SSBM | 14 Jan 2021

In terms of the sleep thing, I hear you - I'm just offering advice from maintaining an API wrapper for 10+ years. There's two reasons you may want to consider here:

PyGitHub

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyGitHub. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-27.

Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024

- Top package for GitHub REST API, no async support https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub
I'm using the correct virtual environment but Pycharm keeps saying "No module named"?
1 project | /r/learnpython | 10 Jun 2022

Home-page: https://github.com/pygithub/pygithub
GitHub API
8 projects | dev.to | 18 Apr 2022

Python library to access GitHub API
Github API get list of branch commits using Python
1 project | /r/github | 7 Jan 2022
PyGithub: Typed interactions with the GitHub API v3
1 project | /r/github | 29 Dec 2021
An app with hand-picked, searchable and sortable awesome Python libraries (with full code and data)
9 projects | /r/Python | 1 Dec 2021

/src: Main crawler app using PyGithub to crawl Github (repo list is read from a Google Sheet for ease of updating)
API call/ automation to Trigger auto generated view.lkml when underlying data structures change
1 project | /r/Looker | 9 Jun 2021

You could use a library to update the view files directly in the git master repository such as pygithub library, and sync production hitting the deploy webhook
Project Sentiment Tracker Using AWS Comprehend + Serverless in 1 hour
3 projects | dev.to | 8 Mar 2021

PyGithub is the defacto wrapper for Github v3 API. It has a 1:1 mapping to all APIs that Github exposes.
Github from python
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 26 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing twython and PyGitHub you can also consider the following projects:

facepy - Facepy makes it really easy to use Facebook's Graph API with Python

boto3 - AWS SDK for Python

facebook-sdk - Python SDK for Facebook's Graph API

gmail - A Pythonic interface for Google Mail

Python-Onfleet - A full-featured Python wrapper for the Onfleet API.

gspread - Google Sheets Python API

Telethon - Pure Python 3 MTProto API Telegram client library, for bots too!

Gordon - λ Gordon is a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation

github-traffic-stats - A small Python project to pull and store traffic stats for GitHub projects using GitHub API

hubspot3 - python3.6+ hubspot client based on hapipy, but modified to use the newer endpoints and non-legacy python

apache-libcloud - Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.