Python Social Media Analytics

Connection to GitHub

GitHub offers a search endpoint which returns all the repositories matching a query. As we go along, in different steps of the analysis we will change the value of the variable q (query). In the first part, we will retrieve all the repositories created since January 1, 2017 and then we will compare the results with previous years.

Firstly, we initialize an empty list results which stores all data about repositories. Secondly, we build get requests with parameters required by the API. We can only get 100 results per request, so we have to use a pagination technique to build a complete dataset.

 results = [] q = "created:>2017-01-01" def search_repo_paging(q): url = 'https://api.github.com/search/repositories' params = ...