GitHub - Get Traffic Views on repository

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Tags: #github #api #traffic #views #plotly #linechart #analytics

Author: Florent Ravenel

Last update: 2023-04-12 (Created: 2023-02-16)

Description: This notebook will show how to get traffic views on a GitHub repository.

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Input

Import libraries

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import requests
import naas
from pprint import pprint
import pandas as pd
import plotly.graph_objects as go

Setup Variables

Create your personal access token here
Select all scopes on "repo" section

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repo_url = "https://github.com/jupyter-naas/awesome-notebooks"
token = naas.secret.get("GITHUB_TOKEN") or "GITHUB_TOKEN"

Model

Get Traffic Views

This function will get the traffic views of a GitHub repository.

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def get_traffic_views(repo_url, token):
    # owner + name of the repository
    owner = repo_url.split("/")[-2]
    name = repo_url.split("/")[-1]
    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{name}/traffic/views"
    headers = {"Authorization": f"token {token}"}
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    return response.json()


traffic_views = get_traffic_views(repo_url, token)
pprint(traffic_views)

Output

Display data

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print("-> Git views on the last 14 days")
print(f"Views count: {traffic_views.get('count')}")
print(f"Uniques viewer: {traffic_views.get('uniques')}")

df = pd.DataFrame(traffic_views.get("views"))
df

Display graph

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fig = go.Figure()
fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        name="count",
        x=df["timestamp"],
        y=df["count"],
        mode="lines+markers",
        marker=dict(color="blue"),
    )
)
fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        name="uniques",
        x=df["timestamp"],
        y=df["uniques"],
        mode="lines+markers",
        marker=dict(color="orange"),
    )
)
fig.update_layout(title="Git Views")
fig.show()

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