GitHub Pull Request Extractor

The script pulls.py gets pull request data from the GitHub API and saves it to a local JSON file. The JSON file maps pull request numbers to the files in the repo that the pull request edited.

Requirements

• Python 3
• A functional GitHub personal access token with the following scopes:

Instructions

Checkout this repo, cd to its root, then run the following terminal commands:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage of the script is as follows:

python pulls.py <token> <repo_name> [--months <months>]

• <token> is your GitHub personal access token.
• <repo_name> is the full name of the repo you would like to extract e.g. kiteco/pypulls.
• You can optionally specifiy a number of <months> to extract data for. By default, this script will extract the previous 12 months.

Data

This script extracts PR's and the files that were changed in the PR's and saves it in a JSON object:

{
  "1": [
    "file/changed/in/pr/1"
  ],
  "2": [
    "file/changed/in/pr/2",
    "another/file/changed/in/pr/2",
  ]
}

On macOS and Linux, this data is stored at ~/.kite/github/repo/name/pulls.json. On Windows it is stored at %USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Kite\github\repo\name\pulls.json.