github-crawler

Extract GitHub repositories metadata and README content.

STEPS:

1. environment SETUP and package installation

Virtual env

```sh
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
# when finish using
deactivate 
```

Conda

```sh
conda env create -f conda.yaml
conda activate crawler
# when finish using
conda deactivate
```

2. Update the .env file with the correct params

   cp .env.example .env
   code .env

3. Run the following scripts:

   i. python crawl_repos.py <topic-name> <stars-size> to crawl all the repos with the topic and stars greater or equal . If omitted will consider 0+ stars.

   ii. python get_contributors.py to crawl all the user who contributed the crawled repo from step 3.i

   iii. python get_stargazers.py to crawl all the users who starred the crawled repo from step 3.i