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GitHub user's stats

Published at 17, April 2009, author art. Tags: git, python

Today I wrote a simple python script, which uses GitHub's API, to retrive information about user's projects and their watchers/forkers count.

The script is pretty simple and uses lxml to get and parse XML page:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from lxml import etree as ET

username = 'svetlyak40wt'

if len(sys.argv) == 2:
    username = sys.argv[1]

url = 'http://github.com/api/v1/xml/%s' % username
data = ET.parse(url)
reps = data.findall('repositories/repository')

if reps:
    tmpl = '%25s, %8s, %5s'
    print tmpl % ('NAME', 'WATCHERS', 'FORKS')
    for rep in reps:
        print tmpl % (
            rep.find('name').text,
            rep.find('watchers').text,
            rep.find('forks').text,
        )
else:
    print 'User %s has no repositories.' % username