This repository is a extensions of the repo jstrieb/github-stats.
- Create a personal access token (not the default GitHub Actions token) using
the instructions
here.
Personal access token must have permissions:
read:user
andrepo
. Copy the access token when it is generated – if you lose it, you will have to regenerate the token. - Click here to create a copy of this repository.
- If this is the README of your fork, click this link to go to the "Secrets" page. Otherwise, go to the "Settings" tab of the newly-created repository and go to the "Secrets" page (bottom left).
- Create a new secret with the name
ACCESS_TOKEN
and paste the copied personal access token as the value. - It is possible to change the type of statistics reported.
- To ignore certain repos, add them (in owner/name format e.g.,
username/github-stats-react-theme
) separated by commas to a new secret—created as before—calledEXCLUDED
. - To ignore certain languages, add them (separated by commas) to a new
secret called
EXCLUDED_LANGS
. For example, to exclude HTML and TeX you could set the value tohtml,tex
. - To show statistics only for "owned" repositories and not forks with
contributions, add an environment variable (under the
env
header in the main workflow) calledEXCLUDE_FORKED_REPOS
with a value oftrue
.
- To ignore certain repos, add them (in owner/name format e.g.,
- Go to the Actions Page and press "Run Workflow" on the right side of the screen to generate images for the first time. The images will be periodically generated every hour, but they can be manually regenerated by manually running the workflow.
- Check out the images that have been created in the
generated
folder. - To add your statistics to your GitHub Profile README, copy and paste the following
lines of code into your markdown content. Change the
username
value to your GitHub username.![](https://github.com/username/github-stats-react-theme/blob/main/generated/overview.svg)
![](https://github.com/username/github-stats-react-theme/blob/main/generated/languages.svg)
- Link back to this repository so that others can generate their own statistics images.
- Star this repo if you like it!