Django-Hackathon-Starter/hackathon_starter/hackathon/scripts/github.py

'''
Module github.py contains a handful of methods
for interacting with Github data.
'''

import requests
import simplejson as json

########################
# GITHUB API CONSTANTS #
########################

API_BASE_URL = 'https://api.github.com/'
API_USERS_URL = API_BASE_URL + 'users/DrkSephy'

def getUserData():
	req = requests.get(API_USERS_URL)
	jsonList = []
	jsonList.append(json.loads(req.content))
	parsedData = []
	userData = {}
	for data in jsonList: 
		userData['name'] = data['name']
		userData['blog'] = data['blog']
		userData['email'] = data['email']
		userData['public_gists'] = data['public_gists']
		userData['public_repos'] = data['public_repos']
		userData['avatar_url'] = data['avatar_url']
		userData['followers'] = data['followers']
		userData['following'] = data['following']
	parsedData.append(userData)
	return parsedData