diff --git a/misc/fetch_active_contributors.py b/misc/fetch_active_contributors.py
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+import requests
+
+
+def print_active_contributors():
+    api_prefix = 'https://api.github.com/repos/taichi-dev/taichi'
+    per_page = 100
+
+    contributors = []
+
+    page = 1
+    while True:
+        contributors_json = requests.get(
+            f'{api_prefix}/contributors?per_page={per_page}&page={page}').json(
+            )
+
+        for c in contributors_json:
+            contributors.append(c['login'])
+
+        if len(contributors_json) == 0:
+            break
+        page += 1
+
+    print(len(contributors), contributors)
+
+    counter = {}
+
+    irregular_records = set()
+
+    page = 1
+    eof = False
+    while not eof:
+        # Note: for some reason the 'page' argument is 1-based
+        commits_json = requests.get(
+            f'{api_prefix}/commits?per_page={per_page}&page={page}').json()
+        for c in commits_json:
+            date = c['commit']['committer']['date']
+            try:
+                author = c['author']['login']
+            except:
+                irregular_records.add(c['commit']['author']['email'])
+                continue
+            if int(date[:4]) < 2020:
+                eof = True
+                break
+            print(date, author)
+            if author in contributors:
+                counter[author] = counter.get(author, 0) + 1
+
+        print('---')
+        page += 1
+
+    for login, contrib in sorted(list(counter.items()),
+                                 key=lambda rec: -rec[1]):
+        print(f'- [{login}](https://github.com/{login}/)    {contrib}')
+
+    print('Irregular records:')
+    print(irregular_records)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print_active_contributors()