Github Bot

• Author: Alex Nguyen
• License: MIT
• Description: Simple python-based github bot that will fetch Github repos from a given account

To run this application

• Python >= v3.6
• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/usefulmana/github-bot.git
• Move to the bot folder: cd github-bot
• Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Activate your python virtual env
• Move to the app folder: cd app
• Create a .env file with the following values (or you can use actual env variables):

AUTH_TOKEN = <GITHUB_TOKEN>
GITHUB_URL = <GET_URL>
DB_STRING = <DB_CONNECTION_STRING>

• GITHUB_TOKEN can be obtained by visiting Github → Settings → Developer Settings → Personal Access Token → Generate New Token
• GET_URL can be customised. Read more about it here
• Read about DB_CONNECTION_STRING here
• To run the app: python bot.py

To deploy to AWS Lambda

• Combine all code into the lambda.py file
• On Windows, move the file into venv → Libs → site-packages
• Replace the psycopg2 folder according to the instruction here
• Zip the content of site-packages
• Upload to AWS Lambda
• Raise execution time limit to 30 seconds just to be safe
• Change Handler to lambda.lambda_handler
• If you are still confused, unzip the deploy.zip file to see an example