Finding total contributions of a user from GitHub API - github

Question

I am trying to extract the below info for any user from GitHub.
Is there a way/API exposed in GitHub REST API where we can get this information directly?

Answer 1

Answers for 2019, Use GitHub API V4.
First go to GitHub to apply for a token: https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line. step 7, scopes select only read:user
cUrl
curl -H "Authorization: bearer token" -X POST -d '{"query":"query {\n user(login: \"MeiK2333\") {\n name\n contributionsCollection {\n contributionCalendar {\n colors\n totalContributions\n weeks {\n contributionDays {\n color\n contributionCount\n date\n weekday\n }\n firstDay\n }\n }\n }\n }\n}"}' https://api.github.com/graphql
JavaScript
async function getContributions(token, username) {
const headers = {
'Authorization': `bearer ${token}`,
}
const body = {
"query": `query {
user(login: "${username}") {
name
contributionsCollection {
contributionCalendar {
colors
totalContributions
weeks {
contributionDays {
color
contributionCount
date
weekday
}
firstDay
}
}
}
}
}`
}
const response = await fetch('https://api.github.com/graphql', { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify(body), headers: headers })
const data = await response.json()
return data
}
const data = await getContributions('token', 'MeiK2333')
console.log(data)

Answer 2

Yes, You can do this easily with the new graphql API
Check out the explorer: https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
There you can see the contributions collection which is an edge of the user. You can get all of the information necessary to rebuild the calendar.
I've included a full example, and the explorer documentation can guide you even further.
Specifically to answer your question, the query.user.contributionsCollection.contributionsCalendar.totalContributions
is what you are looking for
Go ahead and copy/paste the following into the explorer and you will see my contribution history for the last year
query {
user(login: "qhenkart") {
email
createdAt
contributionsCollection(from: "2019-09-28T23:05:23Z", to: "2020-09-28T23:05:23Z") {
contributionCalendar {
totalContributions
weeks {
contributionDays {
weekday
date
contributionCount
color
}
}
months {
name
year
firstDay
totalWeeks
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 3

To load the svg with all contributions you can use this code in your html page
<img src="https://ghchart.rshah.org/username" alt="Name Your Github chart">
To customize color you can just do that
<img src="https://ghchart.rshah.org/HEXCOLORCODE/username" alt="Name Your Github chart">
HEXCOLORCODE = 17A2B8

Answer 4

You can use the github events api for that:
Example (node.js)
const got = require('got')
async function getEvents(username) {
const events = []
let page = 1
do {
const url = `https://api.github.com/users/${username}/events?page=${page}`
var { body } = await got(url, {
json: true
})
page++
events.push(...body)
} while(!body.length)
return events
}
(async () => {
const events = await getEvents('handtrix')
console.log('Overall Events', events.length)
console.log('PullRequests', events.filter(event => event.type === 'PullRequestEvent').length)
console.log('Forks', events.filter(event => event.type === 'ForkEvent').length)
console.log('Issues', events.filter(event => event.type === 'IssuesEvent').length)
console.log('Reviews', events.filter(event => event.type === 'PullRequestReviewEvent').length)
})()
Example (javascript)
async function getEvents(username) {
const events = []
let page = 1
do {
const url = `https://api.github.com/users/${username}/events?page=${page}`
var body = await fetch(url).then(res => res.json())
page++
events.push(...body)
} while(!body.length)
return events
}
(async () => {
const events = await getEvents('handtrix')
console.log('Overall Events', events.length)
console.log('PullRequests', events.filter(event => event.type === 'PullRequestEvent').length)
console.log('Forks', events.filter(event => event.type === 'ForkEvent').length)
console.log('Issues', events.filter(event => event.type === 'IssuesEvent').length)
console.log('Reviews', events.filter(event => event.type === 'PullRequestReviewEvent').length)
})()
Documentation
https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/
https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/types/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/got

Answer 5

You can get the svg calendar from https://github.com/users/<USER>/contributions with to URL parameter like :
https://github.com/users/bertrandmartel/contributions?to=2016-12-31
You can use a basic xml parser to sum all the contributions from the svg.
An example with curl & xmlstarlet for year 2016:
curl -s "https://github.com/users/bertrandmartel/contributions?to=2016-12-31" | \
xmlstarlet sel -t -v "sum(//svg/g/g/rect/#data-count)"

Answer 6

I believe you can see count of contributions in a timeframe as well as other individual contributor analytics within Code Climate’s Velocity git analytics, which you may request access to here: https://go.codeclimate.com/velocity-free-for-teams

Answer 7

You could use this function to extract the contributions from the last year (client):
function getContributions(){
const svgGraph = document.getElementsByClassName('js-calendar-graph')[0];
const daysRects = svgGraph.getElementsByClassName('day');
const days = [];
for (let d of daysRects){
days.push({
date: d.getAttribute('data-date'),
count: d.getAttribute('data-count')
});
}
return days;
}
I've also written a small node module which can 'extract' the contributions
#simonwep/github-contributions
Maybe this will help you (even I'm 4 years to late)

Answer 8

If you would prefer a npm package, you can try this.
https://github.com/SammyRobensParadise/github-contributions-counter#readme
You can get all time contributions or contributions by each year.