📜 gh-stats

CLI GitHub user stats generator.

Features

• CLI interface
• Authenticate to GitHub via OAuth2
• Use GitHub's GraphQL API to query and calculate stats
• Embed stats directly into files using Go templates

Requirements

• go 1.20 to build from source
• a GitHub account and a personal access token
• (optional) an installed nerd font for fancy icons

Installation

To install gh-stats, build it from source:

go install github.com/liouk/gh-stats/cmd/gh-stats

Usage

Authentication

In order to use gh-stats you need to authenticate to GitHub via OAuth2 using a personal access token. The tool reads the token from the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN, so for example you can export it before using the tool:

# paste token from the clipboard into the env var and export it
$ export GITHUB_TOKEN=$(wl-paste)
$ gh-stats all

Basic usage

Once you've set your GitHub token to the env var, invoke the tool to obtain stats (omit --no-icons if you have a nerd font installed, for some fancy icons). Note that the stats generated are for the authenticated user.

$ gh-stats all --no-icons
logged in as liouk
Repos: 8
Forks: 14
Pulls: 17 (6 open; 1 closed; 10 merged)
Commits: 696
Reviews: 7
Language stats:
   Shell: 77.87%
   Lua: 12.29%
   Go: 3.40%
   Python: 2.98%
   Ruby: 2.28%

Have a look at gh-stats help for a list of available commands and options.

Templates

This tool uses Go's text/template package for templating. The tool exposes the following fields that can be used in a template:

{{ .User }}            // the logged in user's username
{{ .NumRepos }}        // the total number of public source (i.e. non-fork) repos of the user
{{ .NumForks }}        // the total number of public forks of the user
{{ .NumPulls }}        // the total number of public pull requests that the user has authored
{{ .NumOpenPulls }}    // the total number of open PRs
{{ .NumClosedPulls }}  // the total number of closed PRs
{{ .NumMergedPulls }}  // the total number of merged PRs
{{ .NumCommits }}      // the total number of total commits the user has authored in public repos and on their default branches
{{ .NumReviews }}      // the total number of reviews assigned to the user
{{ .Languages }}       // a slice containing language stats
{{ .Extras }}          // a special map for defining dynamic template fields from a JSON file

Languages

The {{ .Languages }} slice contains one element for each language in the statistics generated (the total number requested can be specified with the --num option; see gh-stats help lang or gh-stats help all).

Each element is an object with two fields:

• {{ .Name }}: the language name (e.g. "Go")
• {{ .Perc }}: the percentage of total bytes written, that are written in this language

Extras

The {{ .Extras }} field is a map that can hold arbitrary values that can be added to the templates. The contents of the map can be accessed in a template using the index template function.

To use the Extras field:

• define the required values in a JSON file
• use the index function to render the values, as per the JSON structure
• pass the JSON file to gh-stats using the --template-extras option

For example, define the following JSON file:

{
  "repo": "gh-stats"
}

Then render the extra field in a template:

The name of this repo is: {{index .Extras "repo"}}

For a more detailed example, see the next section.

Examples

The examples/ dir of this repo contains an example template file, an example extras JSON file and the resulting markdown file, rendered with the following command:

$ gh-stats all --template examples/basic.tmpl --output examples/basic.md --template-extras examples/basic.json