GithubCountPy is a very simple module to count watch, fork, star, commit, etc. for specific repositories.
No user, password and access token needed.
from GithubCountPy import repos_count
count_repos = repos_count('django/django', 'pallets/flask')
print(count_repos)
# output below
#[{'name': 'django/django', 'watch': 1918,
#'star': 31868...}, {'name': 'pallets/flask',
#'watch': 1944, 'star': 33284...}]If using pipenv, run the command
pipenv install git+git://github.com/keyanyang/githubcountpy.git#egg=GithubCountPy
Github's API V3 is used for counts including watch, star, fork, open_issues, lang and created_time.
Though you could use Github API to retrieve the data from repositories, there are many limitations. First, there is no access to count commits. Second, you need to deal with multiple pages to sum the number of contributors. Third, there is rate limit to call the API. Scraper is used to retrieve the count of commits, branches, releases and contributors.
Github API V3: https://developer.github.com/v3/