Github API

The objective is to learn how to use Github's API to pull in real data. Your need to figure out how to compose an URL for accessing a particular API to grab the data you want.

Github provides a wide range of APIs. We will focus on these three for now.

• Issues API
• Users API
• Repositories API

Carefully go through the examples below.

What is the data of the first issue?

The data is saved in data. It looks like below.

{
 "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
 "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1/labels{/name}",
 "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1/comments",
 "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1/events",
 "html_url": "https://github.com/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
 "id": 102129972,
 "number": 1,
 "title": "Introduction",
 "user": {
  "login": "doubleshow",
  "id": 129562,
  "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/129562?v=3",
  "gravatar_id": "",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/doubleshow",
  "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/followers",
  "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/following{/other_user}",
  "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/gists{/gist_id}",
  "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
  "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/subscriptions",
  "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/orgs",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/events{/privacy}",
  "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/doubleshow/received_events",
  "type": "User",
  "site_admin": false
 },
 "labels": [],
 "state": "open",
 "locked": false,
 "assignee": null,
 "milestone": null,
 "comments": 28,
 "created_at": "2015-08-20T12:43:48Z",
 "updated_at": "2015-09-11T13:57:02Z",
 "closed_at": null,
 "body": "Name: Tom Yeh\r\nDepartment: Computer Science\r\nFavorite Programming Language: Javascript\r\nFavorite Food: BBQ",
 "closed_by": null
}

What is the title of the first issue?

Introduction

Who created this issue?

doubleshow

What are the comments of this issue?

The comments data look like

[
 {
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/comments/133203904",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1#issuecomment-133203904",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
  "id": 133203904,
  "user": {
   "login": "willzfarmer",
   "id": 546524,
   "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/546524?v=3",
   "gravatar_id": "",
   "url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer",
   "html_url": "https://github.com/willzfarmer",
   "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/followers",
   "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/following{/other_user}",
   "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/gists{/gist_id}",
   "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
   "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/subscriptions",
   "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/orgs",
   "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/repos",
   "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/events{/privacy}",
   "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/received_events",
   "type": "User",
   "site_admin": false
  },
  "created_at": "2015-08-20T22:39:50Z",
  "updated_at": "2015-08-20T22:39:50Z",
  "body": "Name: William Farmer\r\nMajor: Applied Math w/ Minor in Computer Science\r\nFavorite Programming Language: Python\r\nFavorite Food: Sushi"
 },
 {
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/comments/133227037",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1#issuecomment-133227037",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
  "id": 133227037,
  "user": {
   "login": "twagar95",
   "id": 10174237,
   "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10174237?v=3",
   "gravatar_id": "",
   "url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95",
   "html_url": "https://github.com/twagar95",
   "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/followers",
   "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/following{/other_user}",
   "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/gists{/gist_id}",
   "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
   "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/subscriptions",
   "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/orgs",
   "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/repos",
   "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/events{/privacy}",
   "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/twagar95/received_events",
   "type": "User",
   "site_admin": false
  },
  "created_at": "2015-08-21T00:32:27Z",
  "updated_at": "2015-08-21T00:32:27Z",
  "body": "Name: Tristan Wagar\r\nMajor: Computer Science\r\nFavorite Programming Language: Javascript\r\nFavorite Food: Steak"
 },
 {
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/comments/133571232",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1#issuecomment-133571232",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
  "id": 133571232,
  "user": {
   "login": "Malaokia",
   "id": 10319733,
   "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10319733?v=3",
   "gravatar_id": "",
   "url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia",
   "html_url": "https://github.com/Malaokia",
   "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/followers",
   "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/following{/other_user}",
   "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/gists{/gist_id}",
   "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
   "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/subscriptions",
   "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/orgs",
   "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/repos",
   "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/events{/privacy}",
   "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Malaokia/received_events",
   "type": "User",
   "site_admin": false
  },
  "created_at": "2015-08-21T21:44:26Z",
  "updated_at": "2015-08-21T21:44:26Z",
  "body": "Name: Mingqi Liew\r\nMajor: Computer Science\r\nFavorite Programming Language: C\r\nFavorite Food: Thai food"
 },
 {
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/comments/133776171",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1#issuecomment-133776171",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
  "id": 133776171,
  "user": {
   "login": "fadhilfath",
   "id": 5599246,
   "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5599246?v=3",
   "gravatar_id": "",
   "url": "https://api.github.com/users/fadhilfath",
   "html_url": "https://github.com/fadhilfath",
   "followers_url": "https://api.githu

There are 28 comments.

return _.pluck(data, 'user.login')

The github account names are willzfarmer,twagar95,Malaokia,fadhilfath,hswitte,ZachLamb,zhya215,jocr1627,drewdinger,94kazakov,nicolele,satchelspencer,tiro6090,Linenfelser,KevinKGifford,calebhsu,sumi6109,pail4944,DomoYeti,boanding,kjblakemore,SankethSukumarShetty,AndreyShprengel,co-bri,karisantos,anbe6083,jraesly,doubleshow.

Exercises

Now it's your turn to answer the following questions using the real data.

How many issues have been created to date in our class's forum repository?

return data.length

24 issues have been created to date.

What are the titles of these issues?

var titles = _.pluck(data, 'title');
return titles;

The titles of the issues are: Question about using Mongo DB for the android app project,Trouble getting mongodb data,adding axes to SVG charts,Week 6 team homework is released,serving gitbook's specific pages,Viz drills are posted,Questions for the Birdstrike Hackathon,Corrupt file in .git,Converting JSON to Tableau ready (on OSX),Week 4 Learning Challenge ,Your FCQ question,Everyone's book,This week's challenge and next week's hackathon,Week 3 Learning Challenge Updated / Posted,Tableau,lodash variables,Week 2 Learning Challenge Updated / Posted,Week 2 Team Learning Clarification,Knowing Your Classmates Hackathon,Problems uploading book to github.io,Hackathons,First Learning Challenge (Update),Learning challenges,Introduction

How many repository have been created to date for our class?

Our class's Github organization is bigdatahci2015.

return _.size(data);

6 repositories have been created to date.

What are the fork counts of our class's repositories?

var forks = _.pluck(data, 'forks_count');
return forks;

How many public repositories does the user doubleshow have?

return data.public_repos

doubleshow has 34 public repositories

How many public gists does the user doubleshow have?

return data.public_gists