Get starred repositories for a Github username.

stars.py

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import sys
import json
import urllib2


def color(this_color, string):
    return "\033[" + this_color + "m" + string + "\033[0m"

print
print color('34', '-' * 70)
print color('1;34', ' ' * 10 + u'🌟   U S E R   G I T H U B   S T A R S   🌟')
print color('34', '-' * 70)
print


if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print
    print "Please provide github username as argument"
    print
    sys.exit(0)

username = sys.argv[1]

stars_url = "https://api.github.com/users/%s/starred?per_page=200" % username

response =  urllib2.urlopen(stars_url)

# TODO: get more than a single page of stas.
# print response.info() Retrieves a link for next and last pages.

feed = json.load(response)

for item in feed:
    description = item['description']
    if description == None:
        description = '[without description] '
    else:
        description = description[:100]
    print color('30', ' >> ') + color('1;37', item['full_name']) + '\n    ' + color('32', description)