Build-a-GitHub-Bot Workshop

GitHub provides a great platform for collaborating. You can take it to the next level by creating custom GitHub bots. By delegating some of the chores to a bot, you get to spend more time developing your project and collaborating with others.

Learn how to automate your workflow by building a personal GitHub assistant for your own project. Well use libraries called gidgethub and aiohttp to write a GitHub bot that does the following:

• Greet the person who created an issue in your project.
• Say thanks when a pull request has been closed.
• Apply a label to issues or pull requests.
• Gives a thumbs up reaction to comments you made. (becoming your own personal cheer squad).

The best part is, you get to do all of the above using Python 3.6! F-strings included!

This tutorial is for PyCon US 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. Video recording is here.

About me

My name is Mariatta. I live in Vancouver, Canada where I work as a Software Engineer for Zapier. In my free time, I help organize Vancouver PyLadies, PyCascades conference, and contribute to open source.

Im a Python Core Developer. I help maintain Core Pythons GitHub bots: bedevere and miss-islington.

Well be using the same tools and technologies used by Core Pythons team to build their bots.

If you have any feedback or questions about this tutorial, please file an issue.

• E-mail: mariatta@python.org
• Twitter: @mariatta
• Mariatta on GitHub
• Mariatta on Patreon

Know of other places, conferences, or events where I can give this tutorial? Let me know!

Code of Conduct

Be open, considerate, and respectful.

License

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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