made use of the FakeApplication() in the Specicification class again

GithubServiceITSpec.scala

class GithubServiceITSpec extends Specification {

  val app = FakeApplication()
  val config = Play.configuration(app)
  implicit val access_token = AccessToken(config.getString("github.oauth.token") getOrElse {
    throw new IllegalStateException("No github.oauth.token")
  })

  "Github integration" should {

    "allow fetching all public events for user" in {

      running(app) {

        val githubService = new WSGitHubService
        val events = githubService.fetchPublicEvents("anxiousmodernman")(access_token)
        val awaited = Await.result(events, Duration("10 seconds"))
        println(awaited)
        awaited \ "data" \ "login" should beEqualTo(JsString("anxiousmodernman"))

        pending
      }
    }
  }

}

Yup. That's how you grab info from the json.

Also, you might want to consider writing a JsPath. This is basically the equivalent of a compiled Regular Expression, but for transforming a tree of JsValues into a different shaped tree. It builds a reusable function that does some piece of extraction. You can compose these like functions, so they are nice when you have a certain shape that you want to extract, but don't want to have to write all the steps in each method.

See http://mandubian.com/2012/09/08/unveiling-play-2-dot-1-json-api-part1-jspath-reads-combinators/ for some examples.

I don't think you need it here, but just FYI.