Using Alamofire and SwiftyJSON to get data from an online source.

ViewController.swift

//
//  ViewController.swift
//
//  Created by Matt Lebl on 2015-08-09.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Matt Lebl. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit
import Alamofire
import SwiftyJSON

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    
    let userToCheck = "chrislo27"
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        // Use Alamofire to request repo data for a user from GitHub API
        Alamofire.request(.GET, "https://api.github.com/users/\(userToCheck)/repos").responseJSON { (request, response, rawJSON, error) -> Void in
            // Convert returned ambiguous type to SwiftyJSON
            let json = JSON(rawJSON!)
            
            // Iterate through all of the user's repos and print them along with the index
            for (index: String, subJSON: JSON) in json {
                println("Index: \(index)")
                println(subJSON["name"].stringValue)
                println()
            }
        }
    }
    
    //
    //    User: blerchy
    //    Console Output:
    //
    //    Index: 0
    //    CzechStation
    //
    //    Index: 1
    //    elginfitness
    //
    //    Index: 2
    //    Hermes
    //
    //    Index: 3
    //    LucidMaths
    //    
    //    Index: 4
    //    PlaylistBrowserSwift
    //
    
    //
    //    User: chrislo27
    //    Console output:
    //
    //    Index: 0
    //    BeefaloWars
    //
    //    Index: 1
    //    funwithgithubpages
    //
    //    Index: 2
    //    LucidMaths
    //
    //    Index: 3
    //    ProjectMP
    //
    //    Index: 4
    //    Stray-core
    //
    //    Index: 5
    //    Stray-desktop
    //
    //    Index: 6
    //    Stray-goawaythisisnotusedanymore
    //
    //    Index: 7
    //    VersionPlace
    //
    //    Index: 8
    //    YourTicketPlease
    //
    
}