From the course: Data Ingestion with Python
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Solution: GitHub API - Python Tutorial
From the course: Data Ingestion with Python
Solution: GitHub API
(upbeat music) - [Instructor] If you look at the documentation you see that we need to do a GET request to slash users and the username. The internal object is a JSON object that has created at which is the time the user joined GitHub. Let's look at the code. So we define user time with the URL which is api.github.com/users/ and then login. We use urlopen from the standard library to get a response and json to post the JSON response. The created at is a string and we need to convert it to a datetime object. So we do that by trimming the final Z and using fromisoformat. And lastly at line 14 we create datetime/utcnow - created. As an example in line 17 and 18, we can check out how much time I am a member of GitHub. Let's run it. Python, github.py. I'm a member for almost 3800 days.
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