A search script for finding popular users on Github using their API. Useful for recruiting purposes ;)

github.py

import requests
import time
import sys

URL = "https://api.github.com/search/users"
MAX_PAGE = 100

class GithubQuery(object):

    results = {}
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.location = kwargs.get('location', '')
        self.language = kwargs.get('language', '')
        self.followers = kwargs.get('followers', 0)

    def fetch(self, page):
        url = URL + "?q=location:{loc}+language:{lang}+followers:>={foll}&page={page}&per_page={per_page}".format(
            loc=self.location,
            lang=self.language,
            foll=self.followers,
            page=page,
            per_page=MAX_PAGE
        )

        resp = requests.get(url)

        reset = int(resp.headers.get('X-RateLimit-Reset'))
        now = int(time.time())
        rem = int(resp.headers.get('X-RateLimit-Remaining'))

        if not resp.ok and not rem:
            print "Rate Limited... Sleeping for {}s".format(reset-now)
            time.sleep(reset - (now-1)) # sleep until rate limit lifted (add extra second to avoid race condition)
            resp = requests.get(url)

        return resp

    def execute(self):

        page = 1
        count = 0
        total = 0

        while not count or count < total:
            resp = self.fetch(page)
            result = resp.json()
            total = result.get('total_count')

            for item in result.get('items', []):
                self.results[item.get('login')] = item

            count += len(result.get('items', []))
            page += 1


    def output_result(self, output):
        with open(output, 'w') as f:

            print "Found {} unique profiles. Writing to {}".format(
                len(self.results),
                output
            )

            for username, profile in self.results.iteritems():
                f.write("<a href='{url}'>{username}</a><br/>".format(
                    url=profile.get('html_url'),
                    username=username
                ))

if __name__ == "__main__":

    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print "Usage: ./{} <output>".format(sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)

    gh = GithubQuery(
        location='vancouver', # where the user is
        language='python', # languages they use
        followers=10, # min. number of followers they have
    )

    gh.execute() #
    gh.output_result(sys.argv[1]) # save to file passed in as args