Fetch top 10 starred repositories of user on GitHub using Python

By Vineet Raj

In this tutorial, you will learn to fetch the top 10 starred repositories of the user on top 10 starred repositories in Python.

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Python program to fetch top 10 starred repositories of user on GitHub

#Python 3.7

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
r = requests.get('https://github.com/trending/lua?since=monthly')
bs = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
lista_repo = bs.find_all('ol', class_='repo-list')
f1 = open('starred-repos.txt', 'w')
for lr in lista_repo:
    aux = lr.find_all('div', class_='d-inline-block col-9 mb-1')
    for ld in aux:
        rank = ld.find_all('a')
        f1.writelines(str(rank))
        f1.writelines('\n')
f1.close()
f1= open('starred-repos.txt','r')
texto=[]
for x in f1:
    if x[0] == '[' and x[1] == '<' and x[2]=='a':
        na=x.split('"')
        texto.append(na[1])
f1.close()
f1=open('starred-repos.txt', 'w')
f1.writelines('{}\t {}\t\t {}\t\n\n'.format('Position ', 'Name ', 'Repositories '))

for i in range(10):
    tex= texto[i].split('/')
    name=tex[1]
    repos=tex[2]
    f1.writelines('{}- \t {}\t\t {}'.format(i + 1, name, repos))
    f1.writelines('\n')
f1.close()
f1=open('stared-repos.txt','r')
print(f1.read())
f1.close()

Note: Here we are using the concept of “file handling”, if you are not familiar with file handling, please go through it once.

Output

Position            Name           Repositories

1-              skywind3000           z.lua
2-                  Kong               kong
3-                 Gawen              WireHub
4-              PapyElGringo      material-awesome
5-                koreader           koreader
6-                stijnwop       guidanceSteering
7-               Courseplay         courseplay
8-                Tencent            LuaPanda
9-                 ntop               ntopng
10-             awesomeWM             awesome

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