Python script to show the latest updates to an awesome-<whatever> list repo.

ghfeed-updates.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

# Example: python ghfeed-updates.py vinta/awesome-python

import sys, re, requests

repo = sys.argv[1]
token="<personal GitHub token here>"
if token == "<personal GitHub token here>":
  print "Add your personal GitHub token to the 'token=' line in the script."
  sys.exit()

headers = {'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3.diff', 'Authorization': 'token '+token}
commits = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/"+repo+"/commits", headers=headers).json()

def getChanges(url):
  r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
  additions = []
  for line in r.text.split('\n'):
    if re.match('^\+', line):
      additions.append(line)
      
  return additions

cnum = 0
for commit in commits:
  if len(sys.argv) >= 3:
    if cnum == int(sys.argv[2]):
      exit()

  if commit['author']['login'] == repo.split('/')[0] or commit['commit']['message'].split(' ')[0] == "Merge":
    cnum = cnum + 1
    lines = getChanges(commit['url'])

    for line in lines:
      print line.replace('+', '')

    print "\n"