Fetch top 10 starred repositories of user on GitHub using Python
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
Also read: What is GitHub and How to push your code on GitHub ?
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