dynamic-file-importer 0.1.5

Treat a GitHub repo files as a Python object.

Dynamic File Importer

Dynamic Prompt Importer turns a GitHub repository full of Markdown files into a Python object. Each prompt can be accessed as an attribute which lazily downloads the file on first use. The package was born out of laziness—I wanted a quick way to pull prompts from my private prompt repo without manually copying files around.

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install dynamic-file-importer

For development install the repo directly and then run:

pip install -e .

Usage

from dynamic_file_importer import DynamicFileImporter

importer = DynamicFIleImporter(
    "owner/my-prompt-repo",  # GitHub "owner/repo" spec
    token="ghp_yourGitHubToken",  # needed for private repos
    preload=True,  # fetch the repo tree immediately
)

text = importer.get_file_content("folder/welcome.md")
text = importer.get_file_content("folder/welcome.json") 

Creating a GitHub token for private repositories

You only need a personal access token when accessing a private repository. The recommended approach is to create a fine-grained token with read-only access to the specific repo that stores your prompts.

1. Verify your GitHub email address if you have not done so already.
2. Click your profile picture in the upper-right corner of GitHub and choose Settings.
3. In the left sidebar select Developer settings.
4. Under Personal access tokens click Fine-grained tokens and then Generate new token.
5. Give the token a name and expiration and optionally add a description.
6. Choose the resource owner and repository that the token should access, then select the minimal permissions required (read-only is sufficient here). Readonly for the content is enough
7. Click Generate token and copy the resulting value.

Note that GitHub limits each account to 50 fine-grained tokens. For larger automation needs consider creating a GitHub App instead.

Use this token for the token parameter when instantiating DynamicFileImporter.

API

• DynamicFileImporter(repo, token=None, branch="main", preload=False) - create an importer for a GitHub repo.
• get_file_content(path/file.json or file.md etc) - retrieve a file via an explicit path.
• reload() - clear caches and re-fetch the repository tree. **Haven't tested yet **

Why?

Maintaining prompts in a separate repository keeps them version controlled and editable without redeploying application code. This utility lets you pull those prompts into Python on demand so that your code always uses the latest version.

Running Tests

pytest -vv -s

The tests use mocked HTTP responses so no network access is required. A JSON summary will be written to test_report.json after the run. See tests/README.md for more details on what each test covers.