>>> import requests
>>> import json
>>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/django/django')
>>> r.content
'{"repository":{"watchers":2168,"has_downloads":true,"organization":"django","description":"The Web framework for perfectionists with deadline
s. Now on GitHub.","language":"Python","created_at":"2012/04/27 19:47:18 -0700","url":"https://github.com/django/django","has_issues":false,"h
as_wiki":false,"forks":220,"fork":false,"homepage":"http://www.djangoproject.com/","size":8312,"private":false,"open_issues":25,"name":"django
","owner":"django","pushed_at":"2012/05/16 00:52:51 -0700"}}'
>>> json.loads(r.content)
{u'repository': {u'fork': False, u'watchers': 2168, u'description': u'The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Now on GitHub.', u'
language': u'Python', u'has_downloads': True, u'url': u'https://github.com/django/django', u'created_at': u'2012/04/27 19:47:18 -0700', u'priv
ate': False, u'name': u'django', u'pushed_at': u'2012/05/16 00:52:51 -0700', u'owner': u'django', u'has_wiki': False, u'has_issues': False, u'
open_issues': 25, u'organization': u'django', u'forks': 220, u'homepage': u'http://www.djangoproject.com/', u'size': 8312}}
>>> json.loads(r.content)['repository']['language']
u'Python'

>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/django/django')
>>> r.json
{u'repository': {u'fork':....