github_events.py

#github_events.py

try:
    from json import loads

    import numpy as np
    from requests import get

except ImportError as e:
    raise e


URL = "https://api.github.com/events"

#github allows up to 10 pages of 30 events, but we will only keep the unique ones. 
ids = np.empty(300, dtype=int)

k  = 0
for page in range(10,0, -1):
    
    r = get( URL, params = {"page":page} )
    data = loads(r.text)
    for event in data:
        ids[k] = ( event["actor"]["id"] )
        k+=1
  
ids = np.unique( ids.astype(int) )