Introduction of Data Extraction with GitHub API

What is an API?

API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. The GitHub API is provided by GitHub for developers who want to develop applications targeting GitHub.

Get your token

If you want to extract more data without limitation, you need to create a token from GitHub. Proceed as follows：

Step 1: Login GitHub with your user name and password

Step 2: Click your icon on the right top and click “settings”

Step 3: Scroll down and click “Developer settings”

Step 4: Click “personal access token” on a new page then click “Generate New Token”

• Step 5: It will require your GitHub password

Step 6: After you enter your password you can see a new page, and on the top, you can see “Note”. Here you can name your token and select the appropriate scopes.

Step 7: Scroll down to the bottom and click “Generate Token”, then you can get you token on a new page.

Code in Python

You can click the Jupter Notebook -GitHub_Api_Project.ipynb above in this repo.