Github Can I see the number of downloads for a repo

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In Github  is there a way I can see the number of downloads for a repo

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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.

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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

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For those who need the solution in Python  I wrote a simple script     Python Script    GitHub Download Stats     Usage   ghstats py  user   repo   tag   options    Arguments Examples     Support    Supports both Python 2 and Python 3 out of the box  Can be used as both a standalone and a Python module

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11 years later    Here s a small python3 snippet to retrieve the download count of the last 100 release assets  import requests  owner    quot twbs quot  repo    quot bootstrap quot  h     quot Accept quot    quot application vnd github v3 json quot   u   f quot https   api github com repos  owner   repo  releases per page 100 quot  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 quot Pub   pub    Tag   tag    Dls   dls   quot     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

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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

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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

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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 gt  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   gt   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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I had made a web app that shows GitHub release statistics in a clean format  https   hanadigital github io grev

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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

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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

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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

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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  quot Get a single release quot   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  quot Clone Graphs quot    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  quot assets quot  in p          for asset in p  assets                print  asset  name      quot    quot    str asset  download count                          quot  downloads quot     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  quot Accept  application vnd github v3 json quot    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

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As mentioned  GitHub API returns downloads count of binary file releases  I developed a little script to easly get downloads count by command line

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VISITOR count should be available under your dashboard   Traffic  or stats or insights

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Update Nov 2013:

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