GitHub Repository Fetcher and Analyzer

This script fetches repositories of a specified GitHub user, groups them by primary language, and writes the results to a CSV file.

Dependencies

• requests: To make HTTP requests to the GitHub API.
• csv: To write the repository data to a CSV file.

pip install requests csv

Usage

1. Set the access_token and username variables in the main function to your GitHub personal access token and username, respectively.
2. Run the script.

python get_github_repos.py

3. When prompted, enter '1' for starred repositories or '2' for regular repositories.
4. The script will fetch the repositories, group them by primary language, and generate a CSV file with the results.

Note: Make sure to replace 'ACCESS_TOKEN' with your GitHub personal access token and 'USERNAME' with your GitHub username before running the script.

Functionality

• fetch_github_repositories(url, headers): Fetches the repositories from the specified GitHub API endpoint.
• get_repository_language(repo, headers): Retrieves the primary language of a repository.
• group_repositories_by_language(repositories, headers): Groups repositories by primary language.
• write_repositories_to_csv(repositories, filename): Writes the repository data to a CSV file.
• main(): The main entry point of the script.

The script provides flexibility to fetch either starred repositories or regular repositories based on the user's choice. The generated CSV file (starred_repositories.csv or repositories.csv) will contain the grouped repositories by primary language.