github_followers_checker

Setup

1. Clone the repository

2. Create a GitHub oAuth Token that has the user:follow scope. That token is only available once so make sure to save it!

3. Create an .env file in the root of the repository that contains the following:

MY_TOKEN={{OAUTH_TOKEN_VALUE}}

That value is automatically read using os and dotenv

4. Run the file:

python3 github_script.py

Explanation

The GitHub Developers documentation explains how to follow and unfollow people. I wanted to automate this process using python and the requests library. This project is just for fun, the number of followers I have doesn't matter to me 😆

Additional Notes

For some reason, I've noticed that the displayed number of followers/following in the user overview doesn't change, even if you manually unfollow someone. To double-check, look at the outputted list of users after you run the script and see if you still follow them/they still follow you.