GitHub traffic charts

GitHub publishes project view and clone metrics only for the owner and with 14 days of history.

This daemon collect metrics for multiple users/orgs/projects and generates HTML charts every day.

It requires a GitHub "Personal access token" with "repo" scope.

System-wide installation

Install nim on Debian/Ubuntu with:

sudo apt install nim

Build and install the package with:

nimble build_deb
sudo dpkg -i ../github-traffic-charts_*.deb

Configure /etc/github_traffic_charts.conf.json and restart the daemon

Find outputs in /var/lib/github_traffic_charts/output/

Monitor with:

sudo journalctl -f -u github-traffic-charts

Local run

Build a binary with:

nimble build

Configure ./github_traffic_charts.conf.json

Run:

./github-traffic-charts

Configuration

If the user:…​ or org:…​ blocks are left empty, the daemon will scan all existing projects.

Example:

{
  "format-version": 1,
  "charted-days": 14,
  "charted-weeks": 4,
  "max-repos-per-chart": 12,
  "token": "REPLACEME",
  "repos": {
    "user:REPLACEME": [
    ],
    "user:REPLACEME": [
    ],
    "org:REPLACEME": [
    ],
  }
}