Trigger a Zenodo DOI for past Github Releases on a public repo.

trigger_zenodo_upload.py

"""
Trigger a Zenodo DOI for past Github Releases on a public repo.

Modified from @medley56 https://github.com/zenodo/zenodo/issues/1463#issuecomment-1468932469 on 2023-08-16.
"""

import requests


# Fill these in...
repo = "put user/repo here"
token = "paste access token from webhook page in github repo here"


headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json"}

repo_response = requests.get(f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}", headers=headers)
release_response = requests.get(
    f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}/releases", headers=headers
)

releases = release_response.json()
releases.reverse()  # Puts them in order from oldest to newest

for release in releases[3:]:  # Publish all old releases
    payload = {
        "action": "published",
        "release": release,
        "repository": repo_response.json(),
    }
    submit_response = requests.post(
        f"https://zenodo.org/api/hooks/receivers/github/events/?access_token={token}",
        json=payload,
    )
    print(submit_response)