get_releases_pygithub.py

# To be safe, run 'pip install PyGithub' from the cmd line before running this
from github import Github
import github.GitRelease


def print_release_details(repository):

  # Releases - these are the real releases, typically they have a tag associated (so we could use it to look at patch/minor/major)
  releases = repository.get_releases()
  print(f'The total releases in {repository.name} is: {releases.totalCount}.')

  # You can access a specific release page with the following (so we could just look at the first 100 returned releases if we wanted)
  firstPage = repository.get_releases()[0]

  # Print some release details, including - Title, Tag Name, Published at, Prerelease
  print('\nRelease Details:')
  for release in releases.reversed:
    published_at = release.published_at.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S')
    print(f'Title: {release.title} Tag Name: {release.tag_name} Published at: {published_at} Prerelease: {release.prerelease}')

def print_tags(repository):
  tags = repository.get_tags()
  # Print some tag details
  print('\nTags:')
  for tag in tags:
    print(f'Name: {tag.name} Commit: {tag.commit}')

# Access token from Github account
access_token = ""
g = Github(access_token, per_page=100) # override default results returned per page to 100

repo_owner_name = "PyGithub/PyGithub"
# repo_owner_name = "kubernetes/kubernetes" # K8s has tons of releases/repos, so a nice test for 500+ releases

repository = g.get_repo(repo_owner_name)
print_release_details(repository)
print_tags(repository)