GitHub Line Count

A browser script that adds a total line count badge to GitHub repositories.

Features

• Displays total lines of code directly on repository pages
• Works with both public and private repositories
• Lightweight and non-intrusive

Installation

1. Install a userscript manager like Tampermonkey
2. Install the script
3. (Optional) Open the menu of the userscript manager and configure a GitHub Personal Access Token for higher rate limits:
   • Requires public_repo scope for public repositories
   • Requires repo scope for private repositories
   • For fine-grained personal access tokens, select "Public repositories" or "All repositories" under "Repository access" as needed

How It Works

Since GitHub does not provide a direct API to get the total line count of a repository, the script calculates approximate line counts by combining:

1. GitHub's file tree metadata
2. Weekly commit activity statistics

Note:

• Results may vary slightly from exact counts
• Very large repositories may not be supported

Roadmap

• Add support for linguistic detection (i.e., ignore vendored or generated code)
• Add support for mobile device views

Credits

• gloc: The inspiration for this script
• badgen: A tool for generating badges