Simple script that allows us to comment to pull requests with a GitHub bot

github_bot.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function

import os
import sys
import json
import requests

GITHUB_API_URL = 'https://api.github.com'
TOKEN = 'YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN_HERE'

def comment_on_pull_request(pr_number, slug, token, comment):
    """ Comment message on a given GitHub pull request. """
    url = '{api_url}/repos/{slug}/issues/{number}/comments'.format(
        api_url=GITHUB_API_URL, slug=slug, number=pr_number)
    response = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps({'body': comment}),
                             headers={'Authorization': 'token ' + token})
    print(response.text)
    return response.json()

PR_NUMBER = 1
REPO_SLUG = 'mammuth/TCA-ci-test'
comment = 'Test comment'

comment_on_pull_request(PR_NUMBER, REPO_SLUG, TOKEN, comment)