GitHub API: Repositories Contributed To

Question

Is there a way to get access to the data in the “Repositories contributed to” module on GitHub profile pages via the GitHub API? Ideally the entire list, not just the top fi

Answer 1

I wrote a selenium python script to do this

"""
Get all your repos contributed to for the past year.

This uses Selenium and Chrome to login to github as your user, go through 
your contributions page, and grab the repo from each day's contribution page.

Requires python3, selenium, and Chrome with chromedriver installed.

Change the username variable, and run like this:

GITHUB_PASS="mypassword" python3 github_contributions.py
"""

import os
import sys
import time
from pprint import pprint as pp
from urllib.parse import urlsplit
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

username = 'jessejoe'
password = os.environ['GITHUB_PASS']

repos = []
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://github.com/login')

driver.find_element_by_id('login_field').send_keys(username)
password_elem = driver.find_element_by_id('password')
password_elem.send_keys(password)
password_elem.submit()

# Wait indefinitely for 2-factor code
if 'two-factor' in driver.current_url:
    print('2-factor code required, go enter it')
while 'two-factor' in driver.current_url:
    time.sleep(1)

driver.get('https://github.com/{}'.format(username))

# Get all days that aren't colored gray (no contributions)
contrib_days = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(
    "//*[@class='day' and @fill!='#eeeeee']")

for day in contrib_days:
    day.click()
    # Wait until done loading
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        lambda driver: 'loading' not in driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.contribution-activity').get_attribute('class'))

    # Get all contribution URLs
    contribs = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.contribution-activity a')
    for contrib in contribs:
        url = contrib.get_attribute('href')
        # Only care about repo owner and name from URL
        repo_path = urlsplit(url).path
        repo = '/'.join(repo_path.split('/')[0:3])
        if repo not in repos:
            repos.append(repo)
    # Have to click something else to remove pop-up on current day
    driver.find_element_by_css_selector('.vcard-fullname').click()

driver.quit()
pp(repos)

It uses python and selenium to automate a Chrome browser to login to github, go to your contributions page, click each day and grab the repo name from any contributions. Since this page only shows 1 year's worth of activity, that's all you can get with this script.