Github repo names of any user

A tool to extract names of github repos of any user

Introduction:

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites using its HTML structure, In this post, I will explain basic fundaments of web scraping using python and also explore it by a live demonstration with two python libraries Beautifulsoup and requests respectively.

What you will learn from this post:

• basic understanding of web scraping
• how to extract data from a website using classes and HTML tags
• how to use requests module to get data
• how to use Beautifulsoup

Requirements:

• python3
• requests
• bs4

Installation:

sudo apt-get python3-pip pip3 install requests pip3 install bs4

How to run this code

• run the file main.py by python3 main.py
• Enter the username
• You'll be prompted if you want to store it in a file