Github Size-Contributor-List

What this script accomplishes

• Makes an API call to the, "Github API" in order to retrieve the information needed. It retrieves the size of the repository and the number of contributors the repo has
• Information is saved to a text file called, "output.txt"

How ro run script

1. Download script and install requests

pip install requests

2. Run script.py and specify the name of the github user and name of the repository as follows

python script.py -o NAMEOFGITHUBUSER -n NAMEOFGITHUBREPO

Note that the repo must be owned by the user, otherwise, it will fail.

3. Output of the script will be written to a text file called, "output.txt". If the script has incorrect values, it won't run. If the script could not gather data, nothing will be written.

Example Output