Interactive bots: Create Github Issues bot.

contrib_bots/lib/github.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# The purpose of this file is to handle all requests
+# to the Github API, which will make sure that all
+# requests are to the same account, and that all requests
+# authenticated correctly and securely
+# The sole purpose of this is to authenticate, and it will
+# return the requests session that is properly authenticated
+import os
+import requests
+import six.moves.configparser
+
+CONFIG_FILE = '~/.github-issue-bot/github-issue-bot.conf'
+
+def auth():
+    # Sets up the configParser to read the .conf file
+    config = six.moves.configparser.ConfigParser()
+    # Reads the config file
+    config.read([os.path.expanduser(CONFIG_FILE)])
+    # Gets the properties from the config file
+    oauth_token = config.get('github', 'github_token')
+    username = config.get('github', 'github_username')
+    # Creates and authorises a requests session
+    session = requests.session()
+    session.auth = (username, oauth_token)
+    # Returns the session
+    return session