Get contribution count of user on GitHub

github_contribution.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Python script to get the day's contribution count from user's GitHub account
# Use flag -h for parameter information

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import argparse

# parse args and set parameter details
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Get GitHub contribution data')
parser.add_argument('-u', '--username', metavar='<username>',
                    type=str, default='routeaccess', help='GiHub username')
parser.add_argument('-d', '--days', metavar='<days>',
                    type=int, default=0, help='No of days previously')
args = parser.parse_args()

# fetch user profile
try:
    response = urllib2.urlopen('https://github.com/' + args.username)
except urllib2.URLError, e:
    print('URLError = ' + str(e.reason) + "\n")
except Exception:
    import traceback
    print('Generic exception: ' + traceback.format_exc())

# parse page for details
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())
count = soup.find(
    'svg',
    'js-calendar-graph-svg'
).find_all('rect')[-1 - args.days]['data-count']

# print output to stdout
print("\nUser \t\t: " + args.username +
      "\nContribution \t: " + count + " commit(s)")