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libui-ng/doc/build_authors_file.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Automatically generates AUTHORS.md from GitHub API data
+from github import Github
+
+REPO = "libui-ng/libui-ng"
+HEADER = "**The libui-ng project would like to acknowledge the following contributors:**"
+FILE = "AUTHORS.md"
+
+def fetch_authors(repo):
+    # fully load the paginated list before processing
+    return [author for author in repo.get_contributors()]
+
+def write_authors_file(authors, f):
+    f.write("# Authors\n\n")
+    f.write(HEADER + "\n\n")
+    for author in authors:
+        handle = "@" + author.login
+        name = author.name
+        if name is not None and len(name.split(" ")) > 1:
+            name += " "
+        else:
+            name = ""
+        f.write(" * " + name + handle + "\n")
+
+def main():
+    g = Github()
+    repo = g.get_repo(REPO)
+    with open(FILE, "w") as f:
+        write_authors_file(fetch_authors(repo), f)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()