Gets a GitHub user's contributions using the graphql API.

activityGetter.py

from filecmp import cmp
from requests import post
from json import loads
from datetime import datetime

# generate your token at https://github.com/settings/tokens (i'm not sure what scopes you will need)
token = 'api_token'
username = 'NachoToast' # doesn't have to be your username

url = 'https://api.github.com/graphql'

body = r'{"query":"query {user(login:\"' + username + \
    r'\"){name\ncontributionsCollection{contributionCalendar {colors\ntota' + \
    r'lContributions\nweeks {contributionDays {color\ncontributionCount\nd' + \
    r'ate\nweekday}firstDay}}}}}"}'

headers = {
    'Authorization': f'bearer {token}'
}

# making the request
obj: list[dict] = loads(post(url, data=body, headers=headers).content)[
    'data']['user']['contributionsCollection']['contributionCalendar']['weeks']

dayDict = {}

for num in obj:
    for data in num['contributionDays']:
        date = data['date']
        contributions = data['contributionCount']
        # uncomment these lines if you don't want to include days with 0 activity
        # if (contributions == 0):
        #     continue
        if (date in dayDict):
            dayDict[date] += contributions
        else:
            dayDict[date] = contributions


def timestamp(a: str):
    year, month, day = [int(i) for i in a.split('-')]
    return datetime(year, month, day).timestamp()


# make a list of all the dates recorded, sorted by most recent first
sortedKeys = sorted(dayDict.keys(), key=timestamp)

# example output
for key in sortedKeys:
    print(f'on {key} {username} made {dayDict[key]} contributions')