Create a circle on Google+ for your github contacts

create_github_circle.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
File: create_github_circle.py
Author: Adrien Lemaire
Description: Generate a csv file for google+ using the github api 3
'''

import pycurl
import json

from local_settings import USERNAME, PASSWORD

URL = "https://api.github.com/"
CREDENTIALS = "%s:%s" % (USERNAME, PASSWORD)
followers = []
emails = []


def get_followers(data):
    "Save the followers username in the followers dict"
    dico = json.loads(data)
    for contact in dico:
        followers.append(contact["login"])


def get_email(data):
    "Save a tuple (name, email) for each follower in the emails dict"
    contact = json.loads(data)
    if contact.get("email", False):
        emails.append((contact["name"], contact["email"]))


def request(url, callback):
    "Curl request to github"
    print "url: %s; callback: %s" % (url, callback)
    url = str(url)  # fix bug with unicode
    conn = pycurl.Curl()
    conn.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
    conn.setopt(pycurl.USERPWD, CREDENTIALS)
    conn.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
    conn.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, callback)
    conn.perform()
    conn.close()


def save_csv(data):
    "Save the data in a correct format to upload on google circles"
    with open("github.csv", "w") as f:
        f.write("Name,Email\n")
        for user in data:
            f.write("%s\n" % ",".join(user))


def main():
    """
    Get the list of your github followers email for any purpose, like creating
    a Github circle in your google+
    """
    followers_url = URL + "user/followers"
    # 1. Get list of usernames
    request(followers_url, get_followers)
    # 2. For each username, get his email if exist
    for follower in followers:
        follower_url = "%susers/%s" % (URL, follower)
        request(follower_url, get_email)
    save_csv(emails)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()