Update Zenodo to recognize existing GitHub releases

Simple Python script to request Zenodo through its web API for recognizing pre-existing releases of GitHub based projects when they have only been added to Zenodo after a release (or multiple) has been published to GitHub.

Setup

• Create a new virtual environment (e.g. vf new zenodo when using virtualfish)
• Activate the virtual environment if necessary (virtualfish does it automatically)

Then install the requirements by running:

pip install --upgrade --requirement requirements.txt

Usage

Assuming you'll try to generate Zenodo DOIs for a project (repository) called awesomeproject that is located in the GitHub organization exampleorg:

• Create a settings file by copying the settings/example.yml to a new one, say settings/awesomeproject.yml
• Adjust the repo field to read exampleorg/awesomeproject
• Use a web browser and navigate to https://github.com/exampleorg/awesomeproject/settings/hooks
• Hit the Edit button next to the Zenodo webhook
• From the Payload URL field copy the last part (everything after access_token=)
• Place that string in the token entry of the newly copied settings file
• Save the new settings file

Finally, run the script by specifying the path to the new settings file:

python update-zenodo.py settings/awesomeproject.yml