GitHub's insights capabilities are pretty limited, and will only give you data for a limited time range (past 2 weeks). This (very simple) tool uses GitHub's API to fetch and persist insights data, allowing you to better understand long-term usage patterns and trends of your repositories - blazingly fast.
$ cargo install --git https://github.com/williamboman/gh-analyzer0 0 * * * gh-analyzer --out-dir /srv/github-stats repo williamboman/gh-analyzer
0 0 * * * gh-analyzer --out-dir /srv/github-stats clones williamboman/gh-analyzer
0 0 * * * gh-analyzer --out-dir /srv/github-stats traffic williamboman/gh-analyzer
Historic data have a tendency to be volatile, where historic numbers provided by the API seem to change over time. This is worth keeping in mind when ingesting the data into another system, like a time series database.