Gives you monthly commits of particular repository for last year

get_commits.py

import requests
import os
from pprint import pprint
from datetime import datetime

token = os.getenv("GIT_TOKEN")

def monthyear(value):
    """Converts Unix timestamp to date time format

    Args:
        value (String): Unix value of week
    """
    month_year = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(value)).strftime("%B-%Y")

    return month_year

def each_month_commits(owner,repo):
    """Returns monthly commits of repository
    
    Args:
        owner (String): owner of repository
        repo (String): repository name

    Returns:
        Dictionary of monthly commits
    """
    commits_data = {}
    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/stats/commit_activity"
    headers = {"Authorization": f"token {token}"}
    response= requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers).json()       
    for data in response:
        mm_yyyy = monthyear(data["week"])
        if mm_yyyy in commits_data:
            commits_data[mm_yyyy] += data["total"]
        else:
            commits_data[mm_yyyy] = data["total"]

    return commits_data


pprint(each_month_commits('gkorgtest' ,'testrepo'))