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title: "GitHub Repositories"  
description: "GitHub Repositories"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2018-06-27  
updated: 2018-06-28  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34552/github-repositories  
category: "python"  
tags: ["python"]  
reading_time: 3 minutes  

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# GitHub Repositories

How to [Fetch](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156159/what-is-google-fetch) top 10 starred repositories of [user](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13001/multi-statement-table-valued-user-defined-function-in-sql-server) on [GitHub](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34563/bitbucket-vs-github-vs-gitlab) ?

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## Replies

### Reply by Prakash nidhi Verma

Fetch top 10 starred repositories of user on GitHub Python :

Prerequisites:

- python

- urllib2

- BeautifulSoup

We write python scripts to make our task easier which is helps you to fetch top 10 starred repositories of any user on GitHub.You just need Github username .

example: mindstick2010

First access the repository url of user. example:

username = “mindstick2010”, then url =“https://github.com/mindstick2010?tab=repositories”

Now scrape the url page and fetch stars,repository name and repository url using BeautifulSoup. On one page there are 20 repositories,if user has more than 20 repositories,you need a loop to access all the pages by beautifulSoup lib.

The code shown below :

//Python3 script to fetch top 10 starred

//repositories of a user on github

```
import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse
import http.cookiejar
import requests
from lxml import html
from lxml import etree
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
import operator
```

```
top_limit = 9
def openWebsite():
    username = str(input("enter GitHub username: ")
    repo_dict = {}
    url = "https://github.com/"+username+"?tab=repositories"
    while True:
            urllib2  : https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html
            BeautifulSoup : https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
        cj = http.cookiejar.CookieJar()
        opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
        resp = opener.open(url)
        doc = html.fromstring(resp.read())
        repo_name = doc.xpath('//li[@class="col-12 d-block width-full py-4 border-bottom public

source"]/div[@class="d-inline-block mb-1"]/h3/a/text()'
        repo_list = []
        for name in repo_name:
            name = ' '.join(''.join(name).split())
            repo_list.append(name)
            repo_dict[name] = 0
        response = requests.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
        div = soup.find_all('li', {'class': 'col-12 d-block width-full py-4 border-bottom public

source'})
        for d in div:
            temp = d.find_all('div',{'class':'f6 text-gray mt-2'})
            for t in temp:
                x = t.find_all('a', attrs={'href': re.compile("^\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.]+\/[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-

\_]+\/stargazers")})
                if len(x) is not 0:
                    name = x[0].get('href')
                    name = name[len(username)+2:-11]
                    repo_dict[name] = int(x[0].text)
        div = soup.find('a',{'class':'next_page'})
if __name__ == "__main__":
    openWebsite()
```

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