a way to find the primary language preference of github users based on the primary language of the repos they contribute too. This assumes you have the guthub username or login name

github_get_user_primary_languages.py

import requests
import json
import pprint


def user_name(json_string):
    user = json.loads(str(json_string))
    return user.get("login")


def all_users(filename):
    users = []
    with open(filename) as f:
        users = [user_name(line) for line in f]
    return users


def user_commits(user):
    r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/users/%s/repos?client_id=XXXX&client_secret=YYYY' % user)
    repos = json.loads(r.content)
    return repos


def get_language(repo):
    return repo.get("language", None)


def language_count(langs):
    return {x: langs.count(x) for x in set(langs)}


def get_user_language(repos):
    langs = [get_language(repo) for repo in repos]
    return language_count(langs)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    users = all_users("github_emails_data.jl")
    import time
    for user in users:
        time.sleep(5)
        user_repos = user_commits(user)
        repo_languages = get_user_language(user_repos)
        print(user, repo_languages)
        with open("user_commits.out", "a+") as fw:
            fw.write(", ".join([user, str(repo_languages)]))
            fw.write("\n")