Search github on the command line with the github3 package

repo.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, github3

def search_github(terms):
    data = []
    results = github3.api.search_repositories(' '.join(terms))
    for i in results:
        j = i.to_json()
        item={}
        item['url']          = j['git_url'].encode('ascii','ignore')
        if j['description']:
            item['desc']     = j['description'].encode('ascii','ignore')
        else:
            item['desc']     = ''
        item['lang']         = j['language'].encode('ascii','ignore')
        item['modified']     = j['updated_at'].encode('ascii','ignore')
        item['score']        = str(int(j['score'])).encode('ascii','ignore')
        data.append(item)
    return str(TablePrinter(format(data), ul='-')(data))

class TablePrinter(object):
    "Print a list of dicts as a table"
    def __init__(self, fmt, sep=' ', ul=None):
        """
        @param fmt: list of tuple(heading, key, width)
                        heading: str, column label
                        key: dictionary key to value to print
                        width: int, column width in chars
        @param sep: string, separation between columns
        @param ul: string, character to underline column label, or None for no underlining
        """
        super(TablePrinter,self).__init__()
        self.fmt   = str(sep).join('{lb}{0}:{1}{rb}'.format(key, width, lb='{', rb='}') for heading,key,width in fmt)
        self.head  = {key:heading for heading,key,width in fmt}
        self.ul    = {key:str(ul)*width for heading,key,width in fmt} if ul else None
        self.width = {key:width for heading,key,width in fmt}
    def row(self, data):
        return self.fmt.format(**{ k:str(data.get(k,''))[:w] for k,w in self.width.iteritems() })
    def __call__(self, dataList):
        _r = self.row
        res = [_r(data) for data in dataList]
        res.insert(0, _r(self.head))
        if self.ul:
            res.insert(1, _r(self.ul))
        return '\n'.join(res)

def format(data):
    fmt=[]
    tmp={}
    for item in data:
        for key,value in item.items():
            if not key in tmp.keys():
                if value: tmp[key] = len(str(value))
            elif len(str(value)) > tmp[key]:
                if value: tmp[key] = len(str(value))
    for key,value in tmp.items():
        fmt.append((key, key, value))
    return(fmt)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print "%s terms <language:language>" % sys.argv[0]
        raise SystemExit
    terms = sys.argv[1:]
    results = search_github(terms)
    results = results.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
    print results