Github API, fetch the top most starred public repositories that is written in Python language

Question

I am experimenting with Python. What I would like to achieve is using the Github API, I would like to fetch the top 10 most starred public repositories that are written in Python language and are created since last month. Could anyone give me tips on how I could achieve that?

Until now I have managed to achieve the following:

import pandas as pd
import requests 
from datetime import datetime
df = pd.DataFrame(columns=['repository_ID', 'name', 'URL', 'created_date',  'description', 'number_of_stars'])
results = requests.get('https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:python&sort=stars&order=desc').json()

for repo in results['items']:
        d_tmp = {'repository_ID': repo['id'],
                'name': repo['name'],
                'URL': repo['html_url'],
                'created_date': datetime.strptime(repo['created_at'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'),


                'number_of_stars': repo['stargazers_count']}
        df = df.append(d_tmp, ignore_index=True)


print d_tmp

This gives me the following result for the most viewed sorted by star descending:

{'URL': u'https://github.com/faif/python-patterns', 'repository_ID': 4578002, 'number_of_stars': 18103, 'name': u'python-patterns', 'created_date': datetime.datetime(2012, 6, 6, 21, 2, 35)}

What I am stuck on is : How to get the same result for last two months and for top 10 repositories? I am thankful for all the valueable information.

Answer 1

You can use the created parameter of the github api. So to get the python repos since month 9 sorted by stars you can do the following request.

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=created:">2018-09-30"language:python&sort=stars&order=desc

Then to get the top 10 repos you can do:

top_ten = results['items'][0:10]

If you want to restrict the number of items returned on the api call, you can use the per_page=10 parameter. The query below does the same as above, but returns only 10 results.

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=created:">2018-09-30"language:python&sort=stars&order=desc&per_page=10

Good luck on your projects!