downloadStats.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# James Scott-Brown, 2016-01-25 
# This script loops through each of a user's repositories
# for each, it prints the name of each release asset, and how
# many times it has been downloaded


import urllib2
import json

user_name = "sys-bio"

opener = urllib2.build_opener()

def print_repo_stats(full_name):
	req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/repos/" + full_name + "/releases")

	f = opener.open(req)
	rawJSON = f.read()

	data = json.loads(rawJSON)

	print "\n" + full_name + ":"
	for release in data:
		assets = release['assets']

		for asset in assets:
			print asset['name'], asset['download_count']

req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/users/" + user_name + "/repos")
f = opener.open(req)
rawJSON = f.read()
repos = json.loads(rawJSON)

for repo in repos:
    print_repo_stats(repo['full_name'])