feat: Add a script to update showcased projects' stars

[NSPC911]

Please review the following checklist.

• Docstrings on all new or modified functions / classes
• Updated documentation
• Updated CHANGELOG.md (where appropriate)

[willmcgugan]

Thanks

[willmcgugan]

I'd like to suggest an alternative approach that makes this a little easier to maintain.

• extract PROJECTS in to its own Python file. Call it project_data.py or something like that.

• Add a new Python file that maps the project name on to the star count. Call it something lke project_stars.py

  STAR_COUNTS =  {
      "dolpie": "3.2K",
      "posting": "6.2K"
  }

• Implement a script that loads PROJECTS, runs through each project to get the stars, and then spits out project_stars.py

• Now in project_data.py, you can import project_stars and change the stars to STAR_COUNTS["dolphie"] etc.

Why do I think this is better? It keeps the project data and star counts in one place. Right now the project information is duplicated over two files. It also avoid writing to a complex Python file. Generating code can be brittle, and it is generally best to limit the potential impact of that.

Would you like to tackle this?

[NSPC911]

So you want me to extract the PROJECTS list to a seperate file project_data.py, the actual API calling to a seperate file project_updater.py and store the map of the stars as <repo_name>: <stars> pairs in projects_stars.py? How will it then be used by the actual projects.py script? Never mind, I didn't read that part of the comment, I'll see what I can do

[TomJGooding]

Hopefully this runs without crashing now? It would be nice to see the updated star counts to check they match how they are displayed on GitHub?

[willmcgugan]

Awesome. Thanks @NSPC911 !

And thanks @TomJGooding for the assist.