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+# Code to combine all-contributors files from multiple repositories into a single file
+# With help from GitHub Copilot
+
+import requests
+import os
+import pandas as pd
+import logging
+
+# Set up logging
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
+
+# List all physiopy repos (manually inputted for now)
+repo_list = {'name': [
+    'prep4phys',
+    'physioqc',
+    'physiopy.github.io',
+    'phys2denoise',
+    'peakdet',
+    'peakdet2',
+    'physutils',
+    'physiopy-repository-template',
+    'physiopy-community-guidelines',
+    'phys2bids',
+    'physiopy',
+    'physiopy-test-workflows',
+    'brainhack-physiopy-2023',
+    'physiopy_tutorial',
+    '.github',
+    'physiopy-codesprint-spring2023',
+    'brainhack-physiopy-2022',
+    'outreach'
+]}
+
+# Initialize DataFrame with additional columns
+repo_list_df = pd.DataFrame(data=repo_list)
+repo_list_df['cont_json'] = False
+repo_list_df['cont_txt'] = False
+
+# Create a directory to save the JSON files
+os.makedirs('contributors_files', exist_ok=True)
+
+# Loop through repos and save contributor file if it exists
+for repo in repo_list_df['name']:
+    url = f'https://github.com/physiopy/{repo}/raw/master/.all-contributorsrc'
+    try:
+        r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
+        r.raise_for_status()  # Raise an HTTPError for bad responses (4xx and 5xx)
+        
+        if r.headers.get('Content-Type') == 'application/json':
+            content = r.json()
+            with open(f'contributors_files/{repo}_all-contributorsrc.json', 'w') as f:
+                json.dump(content, f, indent=2)
+            repo_list_df.loc[repo_list_df['name'] == repo, ['cont_json', 'cont_txt']] = [True, False]
+            logging.info(f'Successfully saved JSON for {repo}')
+        else:
+            with open(f'contributors_files/{repo}_all-contributorsrc.txt', 'w') as f:
+                f.write(r.text)
+            repo_list_df.loc[repo_list_df['name'] == repo, ['cont_json', 'cont_txt']] = [False, True]
+            logging.warning(f'Saved as text for {repo} due to non-JSON content')
+    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+        repo_list_df.loc[repo_list_df['name'] == repo, ['cont_json', 'cont_txt']] = [False, False]
+        logging.error(f'Failed to fetch {repo}: {e}')
+
+# Display the updated DataFrame
+display(repo_list_df)
+
+# Function to merge contributors
+def merge_contributors(contributors_list):
+    merged_contributors = {}
+    for contributor in contributors_list:
+        login = contributor['login']
+        if login in merged_contributors:
+            merged_contributors[login]['contributions'] = list(set(
+                merged_contributors[login]['contributions'] + contributor['contributions']
+            ))
+        else:
+            merged_contributors[login] = contributor
+    return list(merged_contributors.values())
+
+# Initialize an empty list to hold all contributors
+all_contributors = []
+
+# Read all JSON files from the contributors_files directory
+json_files = glob.glob('contributors_files/*.json')
+
+for json_file in json_files:
+    with open(json_file, 'r') as f:
+        content = json.load(f)
+        all_contributors.extend(content['contributors'])
+
+# Merge all contributors
+merged_contributors = merge_contributors(all_contributors)
+
+# Create the final .all-contributorsrc content
+merged_file = {
+    "contributors": merged_contributors
+}
+
+# Write the merged contributors to a new .all-contributorsrc file
+with open('merged_all-contributorsrc.json', 'w') as f:
+    json.dump(merged_file, f, indent=2)
+
+logging.info('Successfully merged all contributors into merged_all-contributorsrc.json')
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