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get_user_details.py

import requests from pprint import pprint # github username username = "x4nth055" # url to request url = f"https://api.github.com/users/{username}" # make the request and return the json user_data = requests.get(url).json() # pretty print JSON data pprint(user_data) # get name name = user_data["name"] # get blog url if there is blog = user_data["blog"] # extract location location = user_data["location"] # get email address that is publicly available email = user_data["email"] # number of public repositories public_repos = user_data["public_repos"] # get number of public gists public_gists = user_data["public_gists"] # number of followers followers = user_data["followers"] # number of following following = user_data["following"] # date of account creation date_created = user_data["created_at"] # date of account last update date_updated = user_data["updated_at"] # urls followers_url = user_data["followers_url"] following_url = user_data["following_url"] # print all print("User:", username) print("Name:", name) print("Blog:", blog) print("Location:", location) print("Email:", email) print("Total Public repositories:", public_repos) print("Total Public Gists:", public_gists) print("Total followers:", followers) print("Total following:", following) print("Date Created:", date_created) print("Date Updated:", date_updated)

get_user_repositories.py

import base64 import github import sys import os # make a directory to save the Python files if not os.path.exists("python-files"): os.mkdir("python-files") def print_repo(repo): # repository full name print("Full name:", repo.full_name) # repository description print("Description:", repo.description) # the date of when the repo was created print("Date created:", repo.created_at) # the date of the last git push print("Date of last push:", repo.pushed_at) # home website (if available) print("Home Page:", repo.homepage) # programming language print("Language:", repo.language) # number of forks print("Number of forks:", repo.forks) # number of stars print("Number of stars:", repo.stargazers_count) print("-"*50) # repository content (files & directories) print("Contents:") try: for content in repo.get_contents(""): # check if it's a Python file if content.path.endswith(".py"): # save the file filename = os.path.join("python-files", f"{repo.full_name.replace('/', '-')}-{content.path}") with open(filename, "wb") as f: f.write(content.decoded_content) print(content) # repo license print("License:", base64.b64decode(repo.get_license().content.encode()).decode()) except Exception as e: print("Error:", e) # Github username from the command line username = sys.argv[1] # pygithub object g = github.Github() # get that user by username user = g.get_user(username) # iterate over all public repositories for repo in user.get_repos(): print_repo(repo) print("="*100)

search_github_repositories.py

import github import base64 def print_repo(repo): # repository full name print("Full name:", repo.full_name) # repository description print("Description:", repo.description) # the date of when the repo was created print("Date created:", repo.created_at) # the date of the last git push print("Date of last push:", repo.pushed_at) # home website (if available) print("Home Page:", repo.homepage) # programming language print("Language:", repo.language) # number of forks print("Number of forks:", repo.forks) # number of stars print("Number of stars:", repo.stargazers_count) print("-"*50) # repository content (files & directories) print("Contents:") try: for content in repo.get_contents(""): print(content) except github.GithubException as e: print("Error:", e) try: # repo license print("License:", base64.b64decode(repo.get_license().content.encode()).decode()) except: pass # your github account credentials username = "username" password = "password" # initialize github object g = github.Github(username, password) # or use public version # g = Github() # search repositories by name for repo in g.search_repositories("pythoncode tutorials"): # print repository details print_repo(repo) print("="*100) print("="*100) print("="*100) # search by programming language for i, repo in enumerate(g.search_repositories("language:python")): print_repo(repo) print("="*100) if i == 9: break

creating_and_deleting_files.py

from github import Github # your github account credentials username = "username" password = "password" # initialize github object g = Github(username, password) # searching for my repository repo = g.search_repositories("pythoncode tutorials")[0] # create a file and commit n push repo.create_file("test.txt", "commit message", "content of the file") # delete that created file contents = repo.get_contents("test.txt") repo.delete_file(contents.path, "remove test.txt", contents.sha)