Finding the download count of GitHub releases
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You can use the GitHub API to find out how many times the files in your releases have been downloaded.
For example, to find out how many downloads there have been of my Rabbit Escape project you can do:
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/andybalaam/rabbit-escape/releases | egrep '"name"|"download_count"'
Or you can look through the information manually by visiting a URL like https://api.github.com/repos/andybalaam/rabbit-escape/releases in your browser.
To get the total I came up with this beautiful incantation:
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/andybalaam/rabbit-escape/releases | egrep 'download_count' | cut '-d:' -f 2 | sed 's/,/+/' | xargs echo | xargs -I N echo N 0 | bc
Can I suggest this app to list all stats about your repository? http://github-analytics.apphb.com/
Disclaimer: I’m the owner of the application. Please share your opinion about it.
Zmn, thanks – it looks useful, but I would definitely like the projects to be sorted in descending order of downloads – I have a _lot_ of zeroes…. :-)
Great, It’s nice you find it useful. I’m planning to improve usability and add some features… I’m working on it, stay tuned !
Hi. I’m trying to use your total command on osx but I get an error:
(standard_in) 1: illegal character: N.
Any suggestion? thanks
Hi Sarita, it looks like xargs works differently on your platform. I’m afraid I don’t know what to do to fix it.