00:00 Alright, let's get started.

00:03 First, we need to pip install pygithub,

00:06 which is the module we are going to use

00:08 to query the API and post to it.

00:12 So, let's head over to my terminal,

00:14 and create a virtual environment.

00:18 Let's create a directory, CD into it,

00:22 and, as explained in other videos, I have an alias

00:26 to create virtual environments based on my use of Anaconda.

00:30 So I found a virtual env with the path

00:34 pointing to my Python binary in Anaconda,

00:37 that's the best way for me to do it,

00:39 but as you've probably seen in other videos,

00:42 another way to do it is Python -m

00:46 venv, and the name of your venv,

00:48 which I usually call venv by convention.

00:51 That's totally cool as well.

00:54 But I'm going to go with my setup.

00:59 Then you have to enable the virtual environment.

01:02 So, I'm doing that often because I use virtual environments

01:05 for every project I work on, I have an alias.

01:09 So, I can just type ae, and I'm in.

01:13 So as you see we are starting from a clean slate,

01:16 and I'm going to do pip install pygithub.

01:31 So with that done, head over to the notebook,

01:33 and note that I have the virtual environment enabled.

01:38 Here's how you can do that.

01:42 You need to pip install ipykernel,

01:45 and then there's a command that you can

01:47 set your virtual environment inside the notebook.

01:52 That's why you see me using venv here,

01:55 and having access to pygithub.

01:57 So, let's import the modules we are going to use.

02:03 And it's a bit inconsistent,

02:04 so the package is called pyGitHub, camel-cased,

02:07 but you actually use it as github lowercased.

02:12 Now, let's make a Github object.

02:23 And now I can work with that object.

02:25 Notice that we didn't log in, so we're a bit limited

02:28 in the amount of calls we can make to the API at this point.

02:38 And you will see later that

02:39 when we make this object with a token,

02:41 we can make many more calls to the API.

02:44 And let's work with our PyBites user.

02:51 So, I'm going to store the user in pb.

03:01 And there you go, and before retrieving data from the API,

03:05 let's take a little bit of a detour

03:08 to show you the help functions in Python.

03:10 And that's because I've found the documentation

03:13 not very complete and helpful for this module,

03:16 so, when I worked with this module

03:19 for a co-challenged platform, I used help and there

03:22 to inspect the module and see what was available for use.

03:26 So that's why I want to give you those tips as well.