A simple Data Scraping library for GitHub REST API v3
Project description
# githon
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Githon is a python library that provides a GitHub REST API v3 Data Scraping.
With this library you can: - Request user data through username or user ID - Control request errors easily - Use Application tokens or Personal User tokens to request data - Reduce spending on your requisition limit
## Installation Run the command:
` pip install githon `
## How to use Import the GithubApi class and create an object. Optionally pass an access token to constructor.
` >>> from githon import GithubApi >>> gh = GithubApi('YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN') `
> NOTE: With access_token, your rate limit will be 5000 requests per hour. If you don’t provide an access_token, your number of requests will be limited to 60 requests per hour, according with GitHub REST API v3 docs. See more in https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limitingUse.
Sample code:
` >>> gh.user_by_username('marcosvbras') { 'blog': 'https://about.me/marcosvbras', 'followers': 7, 'following': 28, ...} `
## Methods - `user_by_username`: Request user based in Github login. - `user_by_id`: Request user based in Github User ID. - `user_emails`: Retrieve a list of emails from a given access_token. Requires the user access token. - `followers_by_id`: Request the user followers based in Github login. - `followers_by_username`: Request the user followers based in Github ID. - `following_by_id`: Request the user following based in Github ID. - `following_by_username`: Request the user following based in Github login. - `gists_by_id`: Request the user gists based in Github ID. - `gists_by_username`: Request the user gists based in Github login. - `repositories_by_id`: Request the user repositories based in Github ID. - `repositories_by_username`: Request the user repositories based in Github login. - `search_users`: Search users with a Github query. - `get_request_limit`: Request the API Rate Limit to your token.