script.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Script to automatically populate top-starred-devs-and-repos Readme file

import re
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

f = open("README.md", 'r')
new_file = open("test.md", 'w')

for line in f:
    #find line starting with a number
    if not re.match("\d+. ", line) is None:
        # extract url from the line
         url = re.search("(https?://[^\s]+)", line).group(0)[:-1]

         print ("Fetching page from URL")
         page_html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
         soup = BeautifulSoup(page_html, 'html.parser')

         # find a list of all span elements
         try:
             repo = soup.find_all('span', {'class' : 'repo'})[0].get_text().strip()
             stars = soup.find_all('span', {'class': 'stars'})[0].get_text().strip()
         except Exception as e:
             try:
                repo = soup.find('h3', {'class' : 'repo-list-name'}).find('a').get_text().strip()
                stars = soup.find('a', {'class' : 'repo-list-stat-item tooltipped tooltipped-s'}).get_text().strip()
             except:
             # The rest of the README file contains only top-repo. No more user/org found
            	new_file.write(line) 
             	for line in f:
             		new_file.write(line)
             	new_file.close()
             	f.close()	
             	exit()	
             	
         repo_link = url + "/" + repo
         add_line = " ([%s](%s) %s)\n" % (repo, repo_link, stars)
         line = line.rstrip("\n") + add_line
         print("Added %s" % add_line)
    new_file.write(line)

f.close()
new_file.close()