Get statistics on web traffic to your GitHub repositories.
Python CLI tool to get web traffic stats on the command line using the GitHub API.
A few use cases to show why this may be useful.
- Checking the volume of traffic to all of your repos. Monitor sudden spikes in interest or any general patterns.
- Storing the traffic stats for future reference.
- Requests (kennethreitz/requests)
There are a number of GitHub libraries for Python and other languages, although they may not support the Repository Traffic API (announced on August 15, 2016).
Run on the command line with either python or python3.
$ python github-traffic-stats.py 'nchah' 'github-traffic-stats' 'save_csv'
Password:* (passwords are hidden)
github-traffic-stats
Date Views Unique visitors
Totals 146 64
2016-09-01 1 1
2016-09-05 1 1
2016-09-06 8 1
2016-09-07 5 1
2016-09-08 85 44
2016-09-09 22 9
2016-09-10 6 4
2016-09-11 6 4
2016-09-12 11 6
2016-09-13 1 1
...
*2016-08-08 traffic spikes after post on /r/coolgithubprojects
# Or to get stats on all of your repositories
$ python github-traffic-stats.py 'nchah' 'ALL' 'save_csv'
Password:* (passwords are hidden)
...
Traffic data stored in CSV files with columns:
repository_name, date, views, unique_visitors
A list of the references used for this project.