Added buildscript for authors.

scripts/build_authors.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+Scrape the project contributors list from Github and update AUTHORS.rst
+"""
+
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import os
+import time
+import logging
+
+import requests
+
+_filepath = os.path.dirname(os.path.relpath(__file__))
+
+FILENAME = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(_filepath, '..', 'AUTHORS.rst'))
+URL = "https://api.github.com/repos/michael-lazar/rtv/contributors"
+HEADER = """\
+================
+RTV Contributors
+================
+
+Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project.
+
+"""
+
+def main():
+
+    logging.captureWarnings(True)
+
+    # Request the list of contributors
+    print('GET {}'.format(URL))
+    resp = requests.get(URL)
+    contributors = resp.json()
+
+    lines = []
+    for contributor in contributors:
+        time.sleep(1.0)
+
+        # Request each contributor individually to get the full name
+        print('GET {}'.format(contributor['url']))
+        resp = requests.get(contributor['url'])
+        user = resp.json()
+
+        name = user.get('name') or user['login']
+        url = user['html_url']
+        lines.append('* `{} <{}>`_'.format(name, url))
+
+    print('Writing to {}'.format(FILENAME))
+    text = HEADER + '\n'.join(lines)
+    text = text.encode('utf-8')
+    with open(FILENAME, 'wb') as fp:
+        fp.write(text)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()