mairieli / webservice-bot-umons

Software Evolution - Practical Session: Building a GitHub Bot

About the Guest Lecturer

Mairieli Wessel is an Assistant Professor at the department of software science at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Preparations

Before coming to the practical session, please do the following:

• Make sure you have Python 3.9.X installed on your machine.
• Make sure you also have npm installed.
• Create a GitHub account if you do not already have one yet.

There are other important resources that we are going to use throughout the session:

• Flask as our Python webserver
  • Installation: pip install -U Flask
  • Flask documentation: https://flask.palletsprojects.com
• PyGitHub to communicate with GitHub
  • Installation: pip install PyGitHub
  • PyGitHub documentation: https://pygithub.readthedocs.io
• cryptography for decrypting our GitHub App certificates
  • Installation: pip install cryptography
  • cryptography documentation: https://cryptography.io
• smee.io to receive payloads from GitHub
  • Installation: npm install --global smee-client
  • After the installation, validate the it by running: smee --version . If the smee version appears, you are good to go!