github-crawler 0.0.6

A web spider to crawl public github repositories

Github Crawler

A web spider to crawl public github repositories

Built with ❤︎ and :coffee: by Karthik Hosur

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A web spider to crawl public github repositories to collect data of github user profiles,repositories and user social counts for educational purpose only. The project was earlier built to collect data from github for academic data analysis project.

Features

• Extract User Social Status
• Extract Repository Names
• Extract User Activity
• Extract Repository Social Information
• Extract Repository Data

Installation

• You can install this package using

pip install github-crawler

Usage

Extract the profile information of a github user

• Import it in your Python project

from github_crawler import user_profile

github_crawler.user_profile("karthikhosur") # Use the username of the user

Result

The module would return a dictionary with result as follows:

{'followers': 2,
 'following': 4,
 'stars': 5,
 'repositories': ['/karthikhosur/Github-Crawler',
  '/karthikhosur/FairCV',
  '/karthikhosur/Stop-Words-Remover-API',
  '/karthikhosur/BlogsParser-API',

Extract a Repository information

• Import it in your Python project

from github_crawler import repo_info

github_crawler.repo_info("/karthikhosur/Github-Crawler")# Use the username with the repository name in the format given

Result

The module would return a dictionary with result as follows:

{'watchers': 1, 'stargazers': 1, 'forks': 1}