https://github.com/mgwalker/github-discussion-users

Fetch information about the people who have participated in a GitHub discussion board
https://github.com/mgwalker/github-discussion-users

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Fetch information about the people who have participated in a GitHub discussion board

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mgwalker/github-discussion-users
• Owner: mgwalker
• License: isc
• Created: 2024-12-05T15:18:33.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-05T15:26:01.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-05T16:29:15.996Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# GitHub discussion users

This little script scrapes a GitHub discussion board to get a list of all the users who have participated and some metadata about their participation. This was necessary because I needed to get that information for a discussion board inside an organization where I could not create a PAT with the necessary permissions to work with the GraphQL API and there's not a REST API for discussion. (Thanks, GitHub. Solid.)

Anyway, usage is simple:

```sh

node main https://github.com/[org]/[repo]/discussions

```

It'll first go through all the pages of discussions making a list of discussion URLs. Then it'll walk through each discussion to scrape out the usernames involved. The final output is two files in the `./data` directory:

- `./data/discussions.json`  

  This is a list of URLs to individual discussion threads. That's all.

- `./data/users.json`  

  This is a map of all users that have participated in discussions, sorted by the total number of comments they've contributed. The keys

  ```json

  {

    "username": GitHub username,

    "url": link to their profile,

    "commentCount": total number of comments,

    "comments": [

      // list of comments, sorted by date, looks like this:

      {

        "link": url to the specific comment,

        "timestamp": ISO-8601 timestamp of the comment

      }

    ]

  }

  ```