Finding total contributions of a user from Github API

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)

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 
          
        }
      }
    }
  }
  
}

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

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)"