pipgh allows searching for Python packages on Github and installing them directly. It further allows to specify a reference to a branch, a release or a commit's hash value.
pipgh works with common HTTP GET requests. This simplicity makes it a great solution to deploy software with dependencies available on Github, without the need to install a Version Control System client on the users' system.
Pure Python code (2 and 3 compatible). No dependencies.
Search for individual packages:
$ pipgh search requests
Searching github.com for 'requests language:python'...
kennethreitz/requests Python HTTP Requests for... (★:17198 f:2998 u:2016 Jan 22)
requests/requests-oauthlib OAuthlib support for P... (★:517 f:146 u:2016 Jan 12)
kennethreitz/grequests Requests + Gevent = <3 (★:1246 f:153 u:2015 Nov 21)
requests/requests-ntlm NTLM authentication support ... (★:65 f:32 u:2015 Oct 31)
bulkan/robotframework-requests Robot Framework keyw... (★:81 f:58 u:2016 Jan 13)
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[2226 repositories were found, showing the first 30]
$ pipgh search docopt
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Searching like this:
$ pipgh search http async server
is equivalent to search
http async server language:python
with your web-browser on github.com/search.
Install a package from the latest commit on the master branch:
$ pipgh install docopt/docopt
Fetching files from 'docopt/docopt'...
Installing python package 'docopt-0.6.1'...
Install a specific version of the code using a reference (e.g. release, commit's hash value or branch):
$ pipgh install kennethreitz/requests v2.9.1
$ pipgh install mitsuhiko/flask 23cf923c7c2e4a3808e6c71b6faa34d1749d4cb6
$ pipgh install tornadoweb/tornado stable
Or install a list of packages from a file:
$ cat requirements.txt
docopt/docopt 0.6.2
kennethreitz/requests
$ pipgh install -r requirements.txt
(...)
Show a repository metadata and its README file with this:
$ pipgh show docopt/docopt
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$ pipgh show docopt/docopt | less # also works
pipgh [--auth] search <query>...
pipgh [--auth] show <full_name>
pipgh install ( (<full_name> [<ref>]) | (-r <requirements.txt>) )
pipgh [-h | --help]
search- Search Python packages in github.install- Download and install a package.show- Shows information from github about a repository.
-h | --help- Shows this help message.--auth- Activates the use of HTTP basic authentication. Use this if the rate limit threshold is achieved.