I'm trying to create a simple rule to protect the main branch of a repository but it results in Rule is invalid. I am the creator of the repo. Using GitHub Enterprise Server 2.22.6.
What am I missing?
Steps:
Settings
Branches
New Rule
Name the rule Enter branch name to protect (answer)
Select Require pull request review before merging
Create
Error: Rule is invalid
Try entering a regular expression or the name of the branch you'd like to protect (e.g. main instead of Protect Master) into the Branch name pattern textbox.
See the docs here for more information.
For anyone still struggling with this. Make sure there is no space in your rule name.
ie:
"Protect Main" -> error
"ProtectMain" -> fine.
Name the rule as the branch name, so that it is applied to the specific branch you intend.
while checking out github pull heads through a * fetch configuration I retrieved a list of pull heads in the form of ref/pull/* or something similar.
Are these pointing to only open , closed or all pull requests ? and what about the pull requests that have been already merged and closed ?
Depends on which git version you have installed.
It was true prior to git v2.0 build was changed from match to simple
V2. release notes:
When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
over there). In Git 2.0, the default is now the "simple" semantics,
which pushes:
only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only
when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote
branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or
only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you
are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from.
You can use the configuration variable "push.default" to change
this. If you are an old-timer who wants to keep using the
"matching" semantics, you can set the variable to "matching", for
example. Read the documentation for other possibilities.
How does the push configuration related to pull request?
Git hub store the pull request using refspec which means that its behave just like any other branch with the exception that instead of begin placed under /refs/heads/* its is stored under /refs/heads/<pulls (you can change this path- see below)>/*.
So to summarize it:
Github pull reqauests behave the same way as normal refs, depending on your configuration. If you did changed anything and you using git<2 you will get the full list of pull request, if you changed the settings or using git>2 you should only get partial of the pull requests.
Example:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = git#github.com:xxx/xxxx.git
fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*
Fetch all the pull requests: (The pr folder is the one u defined above)
$ git fetch origin
From github.com:xxx/xxx
* [new ref] refs/pull/<id1>/head -> origin/pr/<id1>
* [new ref] refs/pull/<id2>/head -> origin/pr/<id2>
...
I'd like to count the commits of 2012 in http://github.com/plone and http://github.com/collective
Are there any tools to do this - provide statistics for Github organizations?
Do I need to write my own script to scrape the repositories, check out them individually and count commits?
Here is how I'd do it:
use the GitHub API to enumerate the repositories (see the JSON for Plone for an example). Loop over the JSON result and with each:
Check out the repository (the git_url URL) with git clone --bare; only the git info, no working copy. This creates a <repository_name>.git> directory, say plone.event.git if you cloned git://github.com/plone/plone.event.git.
Count the revisions with git --git-dir=<git_directory> rev-list HEAD --count; outputs the count to stdout, so subprocess.check_output() should do the job just fine.
Remove the .git directory again
That only requires 2 API calls, so you avoid being rate limited; paging through all the commits with the API would require too many requests to count all the repository commits, checking out a bare repository copy would be faster anyway.
The herdstat tool can be used to generate contribution graphs known from GitHub user profiles but for individual repositories or aggregated ones for multiple repositories, e.g., all repositories in a GitHub organization.
The tool is packaged as a Docker image and can be used as follows:
docker run --name herdstat-dev -it herdstat/herdstat:v0.4.0 \
/herdstat -r plone contribution-graph -u 2012-12-31
docker cp $(docker ps -aqf "name=herdstat-dev"):/contribution-graph.svg .
The graph is generated for a 52 week time frame ending with the date specified via the -u / --until flag.
The second command copies the generated graph from the container to the current directory.
The tool is still in its early stages, but it generates informative and nice looking contribution charts like this one that include also the number of contributions in the respective time frame.
Disclaimer: I am the author of herdstat.
While I definitely am not the owner of this private repo, I have been using it as part of a group for a school project, and the teacher is simply asking for the Repo's ID when sending him emails concerning anything. I'm sorry if this is blatantly obvious to a lot of people, but for the life of me I could not find any clear notes on this via github or google. I am not using a GUI for my git, strictly through a linux shell.
How do I find out the ID of the current Repo?
If, like me, you were after the GitHub repository ID (as in - the number identifying the repo - not its name), then I found an easy way to do this via the metadata element on the main page of the repository on GitHub:
View the page source (Right Click > View Page Source in Chrome or Firefox for example)
Search the page source and look for octolytics-dimension-repository_id. You should find something that looks like:
<meta content="123456789" name="octolytics-dimension-repository_id" />
In this example, the ID of the repository is 123456789.
Here's a quick query you can run in console:
$("meta[name=octolytics-dimension-repository_id]").getAttribute('content')
Nine years later, using the graphql API, there is an awesome
explorer
Login
Paste the following query
Replace repo_name, owner_name with real values
click play
query {
repository (name: *repo_name*, owner: *owner_name*) {
id
}
}
That is all.
When you say "repo ID", do you mean the URL of the repo on GitHub?
If that's what you're looking for, use git remote.
plankton:~/scraps $ git remote -v
origin git#github.com:petdance/scraps.git (fetch)
origin git#github.com:petdance/scraps.git (push)
If you have multiple remote repos feeding into your local repository, all of them will be listed there.
Your repository on GitHub does have a unique ID and it can be obtained using the following simple bash script:
#!/bin/bash
OWNER='your github username or organization name'
REPO_NAME='your repository name'
echo $(gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" repos/$OWNER/$REPO_NAME) | jq .id
Note: you will need to install both jq and github cli to get this to work.
jq can be installed as written in this link: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64605901/4441211
github cli can be installed according to this link: https://cli.github.com/
I guess he was talking about name/reponame combination (which uniquely identifies repo on github), e.g. if you using the following string in your git remote
git://github.com/sublimescala/sublime-ensime.git
The id will be sublimescala/sublime-ensime
In Github, is there a way I can see the number of downloads for a repo?
Update 2019:
Ustin's answer points to:
API /repos/:owner/:repo/traffic/clones, to get the total number of clones and breakdown per day or week, but: only for the last 14 days.
API /repos/:owner/:repo/releases/:release_id for getting downloads number of your assets (files attached to the release), field download_count mentioned below, but, as commented, only for the most recent 30 releases..
Update 2017
You still can use the GitHub API to get the download count for your releases (which is not exactly what was asked)
See "Get a single release", the download_count field.
There is no longer a traffic screen mentioning the number of repo clones.
Instead, you have to rely on third-party services like:
GitItBack (at www.netguru.co/gititback), but even that does not include the number of clones.
githubstats0, mentioned below by Aveek Saha.
www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats (web archive), mentioned below.
For instance, here is the number for the latest git for Windows release
Update August 2014
GitHub also proposes the number of clones for repo in its Traffic Graph:
See "Clone Graphs"
Update October 2013
As mentioned below by andyberry88, and as I detailed last July, GitHub now proposes releases (see its API), which has a download_count field.
Michele Milidoni, in his (upvoted) answer, does use that field in his python script.
(very small extract)
c.setopt(c.URL, 'https://api.github.com/repos/' + full_name + '/releases')
for p in myobj:
if "assets" in p:
for asset in p['assets']:
print (asset['name'] + ": " + str(asset['download_count']) +
" downloads")
Original answer (December 2010)
I am not sure you can see that information (if it is recorded at all), because I don't see it in the GitHub Repository API:
$ curl http://github.com/api/v2/yaml/repos/show/schacon/grit
---
repository:
:name: grit
:owner: schacon
:source: mojombo/grit # The original repo at top of the pyramid
:parent: defunkt/grit # This repo's direct parent
:description: Grit is a Ruby library for extracting information from a
git repository in an object oriented manner - this fork tries to
intergrate as much pure-ruby functionality as possible
:forks: 4
:watchers: 67
:private: false
:url: http://github.com/schacon/grit
:fork: true
:homepage: http://grit.rubyforge.org/
:has_wiki: true
:has_issues: false
:has_downloads: true
You can only see if it has downloads or not.
Adam Jagosz reports in the comments:
I got it to work with
curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/:user/:repo/releases
A couple of things that I had wrong:
I needed an actual Github release (not just git tag, even though Github does display those under releases, ugh).
And the release needs an asset file other than the zipped source that is added automatically in order to get the download count.
I have written a small web application in javascript for showing count of the number of downloads of all the assets in the available releases of any project on Github. You can try out the application over here: http://somsubhra.github.io/github-release-stats/
VISITOR count should be available under your dashboard > Traffic (or stats or insights):
GitHub has deprecated the download support and now supports 'Releases' - https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software. To create a release either use the GitHub UI or create an annotated tag (http:// git-scm.com/book/ch2-6.html) and add release notes to it in GitHub. You can then upload binaries, or 'assets', to each release.
Once you have some releases, the GitHub API supports getting information about them, and their assets.
curl -i \
https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.manifold-preview+json"
Look for the 'download_count' entry. Theres more info at http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/. This part of the API is still in the preview period ATM so it may change.
Update Nov 2013:
GitHub's releases API is now out of the preview period so the 'Accept' header is no longer needed - http://developer.github.com/changes/2013-11-04-releases-api-is-official/
It won't do any harm to continue to add the 'Accept' header though.
I had made a web app that shows GitHub release statistics in a clean format:
https://hanadigital.github.io/grev/
As mentioned, GitHub API returns downloads count of binary file releases. I developed a little script to easly get downloads count by command line.
Formerly, there was two methods of download code in Github: clone or download as zip a .git repo, or upload a file (for example, a binary) for later download.
When download a repo (clone or download as zip), Github doesn't count the number of downloads for technical limitations. Clone a repository is a read-only operation. There is no authentication required. This operation can be done via many protocols, including HTTPS, the same protocol that the web page uses to show the repo in the browser. It's very difficult to count it.
See: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols
Recently, Github deprecate the download functionality. This was because they understand that Github is focused in building software, and not in distribute binaries.
See: https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads
To check the number of times a release file/package was downloaded you can go to https://githubstats0.firebaseapp.com
It gives you a total download count and a break up of of total downloads per release tag.
Very late, but here is the answer you want:
https://api.github.com/repos/ [git username] / [git project] /releases
Next, find the id of the project you are looking for in the data. It should be near the top, next to the urls. Then, navigate to
https://api.github.com/repos/ [git username] / [git project] /releases/ [id] / assets
The field named download_count is your answer.
EDIT: Capitals matter in your username and project name
The Github API does not provide the needed information anymore. Take a look at the releases page, mentioned in Stan Towianski's answer. As we discussed in the comments to that answer, the Github API only reports the downloads of 1 of the three files he offers per release.
I have checked the solutions, provided in some other answers to this questions. Vonc's answer presents the essential part of Michele Milidoni's solution. I installed his gdc script with the following result
# ./gdc stant
mdcsvimporter.mxt: 37 downloads
mdcsvimporter.mxt: 80 downloads
How-to-use-mdcsvimporter-beta-16.zip: 12 downloads
As you can clearly see, gdc does not report the download count of the tar.gz and zip files.
If you want to check without installing anything, try the web page where Somsubhra has installed the solution, mentioned in his answer. Fill in 'stant' as Github username and 'mdcsvimporter2015' as Repository name and you will see things like:
Download Info:
mdcsvimporter.mxt(0.20MB) - Downloaded 37 times.
Last updated on 2015-03-26
Alas, once again only a report without the downloads of the tar.gz and zip files. I have carefully examined the information that Github's API returns, but it is not provided anywhere. The download_count that the API does return is far from complete nowadays.
I ended up writing a scraper script to find my clone count:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script requires:
# apt-get install html-xml-utils
# apt-get install jq
#
USERNAME=dougluce
PASSWORD="PASSWORD GOES HERE, BE CAREFUL!"
REPO="dougluce/node-autovivify"
TOKEN=`curl https://github.com/login -s -c /tmp/cookies.txt | \
hxnormalize | \
hxselect 'input[name=authenticity_token]' 2>/dev/null | \
perl -lne 'print $1 if /value=\"(\S+)\"/'`
curl -X POST https://github.com/session \
-s -b /tmp/cookies.txt -c /tmp/cookies2.txt \
--data-urlencode commit="Sign in" \
--data-urlencode authenticity_token="$TOKEN" \
--data-urlencode login="$USERNAME" \
--data-urlencode password="$PASSWORD" > /dev/null
curl "https://github.com/$REPO/graphs/clone-activity-data" \
-s -b /tmp/cookies2.txt \
-H "x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest" | jq '.summary'
This'll grab the data from the same endpoint that Github's clone graph uses and spit out the totals from it. The data also includes per-day counts, replace .summary with just . to see those pretty-printed.
To try to make this more clear:
for this github project: stant/mdcsvimporter2015
https://github.com/stant/mdcsvimporter2015
with releases at
https://github.com/stant/mdcsvimporter2015/releases
go to http or https: (note added "api." and "/repos")
https://api.github.com/repos/stant/mdcsvimporter2015/releases
you will get this json output and you can search for "download_count":
"download_count": 2,
"created_at": "2015-02-24T18:20:06Z",
"updated_at": "2015-02-24T18:20:07Z",
"browser_download_url": "https://github.com/stant/mdcsvimporter2015/releases/download/v18/mdcsvimporter-beta-18.zip"
or on command line do:
wget --no-check-certificate https://api.github.com/repos/stant/mdcsvimporter2015/releases
Based on VonC and Michele Milidoni answers I've created this bookmarklet which displays downloads statistics of github hosted released binaries.
Note: Because of issues with browsers related to Content Security Policy implementation, bookmarklets can temporarily violate some CSP directives and basically may not function properly when running on github while CSP is enabled.
Though its highly discouraged, you can disable CSP in Firefox as a
temporary workaround. Open up about:config and set security.csp.enable
to false.
I have created three solutions to fetch the download count and other statistics for GitHub releases. Each of these implementations are able to accumulate the GitHub API pagination results, which means that calculating the total number of downloads won't be an issue.
Web Application
https://qwertycube.com/github-release-stats/
Available as a PWA
Supports the GitHub API pagination
Node.js Implementation
https://github.com/kefir500/github-release-stats
Available via NPM
Written in TypeScript, compiled to JavaScript
Can be used as a command-line tool
Can be used as a Node.js module
Can be used in a browser environment
Supports the GitHub API pagination
Python Implementation
https://github.com/kefir500/ghstats
Available via PyPI
Can be used as a command-line tool
Can be used as a Python module
Supports the GitHub API pagination
New implementation:
Port into GitHub composite action to reuse workflow code base.
https://github.com/andry81-devops/github-accum-stats
With additional features:
Can count traffic clones or/and views.
Can use GitHub composite action to reuse workflow code base: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/creating-a-composite-action
GitHub workflow file example:
.github/workflows/accum-gh-clone-stats.yml
Previous implementation (marked as obsolete):
This implementation based on GitHub Actions + statistic accumulation into separate repository: https://github.com/andry81-devops/github-clone-count-badge
based on: https://github.com/MShawon/github-clone-count-badge
With some advantages:
Repository to track and repository to store traffic statistic are different, and you may directly point the statistic as commits list: https://github.com/{{REPO_OWNER}}/{{REPO}}--gh-stats/commits/master/traffic/clones
Workflow is used accum-traffic-clones.sh bash script to accumulate traffic clones
The script accumulates statistic both into a single file and into a set of files grouped by year and allocated per day: traffic/clones/by_year/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD.json
GitHub workflow file example:
.github/workflows/myrepo-gh-clone-stats.yml
As already stated, you can get information about your Releases via the API.
For those using WordPress, I developed this plugin: GitHub Release Downloads. It allows you to get the download count, links and more information for releases of GitHub repositories.
To address the original question, the shortcode [grd_count user="User" repo="MyRepo"] will return the number of downloads for a repository. This number corresponds to the sum of all download count values of all releases for one GitHub repository.
Example:
Answer from 2019:
For number of clones you can use https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/traffic/#clones (but be aware that it returns count only for last 14 days)
For get downloads number of your assets (files attached to the release), you can use https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#get-a-single-release (exactly "download_count" property of the items of assets list in response)
There's a nice Chrome extension that does exactly what you want:
GitHub Release Downloads
11 years later...
Here's a small python3 snippet to retrieve the download count of the last 100 release assets:
import requests
owner = "twbs"
repo = "bootstrap"
h = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json"}
u = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases?per_page=100"
r = requests.get(u, headers=h).json()
r.reverse() # older tags first
for rel in r:
if rel['assets']:
tag = rel['tag_name']
dls = rel['assets'][0]['download_count']
pub = rel['published_at']
print(f"Pub: {pub} | Tag: {tag} | Dls: {dls} ")
Pub: 2013-07-18T00:03:17Z | Tag: v1.2.0 | Dls: 1193
Pub: 2013-08-19T21:20:59Z | Tag: v3.0.0 | Dls: 387786
Pub: 2013-10-30T17:07:16Z | Tag: v3.0.1 | Dls: 102278
Pub: 2013-11-06T21:58:55Z | Tag: v3.0.2 | Dls: 381136
...
Pub: 2020-12-07T16:24:37Z | Tag: v5.0.0-beta1 | Dls: 93943
Demo
Here is a python solution using the pip install PyGithub package
from github import Github
g = Github("youroauth key") #create token from settings page
for repo in g.get_user().get_repos():
if repo.name == "yourreponame":
releases = repo.get_releases()
for i in releases:
if i.tag_name == "yourtagname":
for j in i.get_assets():
print("{} date: {} download count: {}".format(j.name, j.updated_at, j._download_count.value))