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Zach Russell
Zach Russell

Reputation: 1140

API Call(s) To get Number Of Commits by Author GitHub API

I am trying to create a WordPress widget that displays a user's repository information and number of commits (limited to the last 30 days). I got the repository info very easily, but am struggling with the second part. I'm using PHP in this case, and displaying the info in a WordPress widget.

Basically I need the API to return the number of commits that a user made in a given month across all (public) repositories. Is there any easy endpoint to access this, or will I have to loop through each of the user's repositories active in the last month and pull the number of commits from there?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 591

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329112

Another approach is to list events for a given user

GET /users/:username/events

Example: https://api.github.com/users/VonC/events

{
    "id": "3406063602",
    "type": "PushEvent",
    "actor": {
      "id": 79478,
      "login": "VonC",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/VonC",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/79478?"
    },
    "repo": {
      "id": 47265668,
      "name": "VonC/hello-world-go",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/VonC/hello-world-go"
    },
    "payload": {
      "push_id": 889397803,
      "size": 2,
      "distinct_size": 2,
      "ref": "refs/heads/master",
      "head": "54dd9bd15fea2476bd76c7bf88bcec370d9dfc61",
      "before": "64d3b59911fef0b0c2423c105c38aabf99332e28",
      "commits": [
        {
          "sha": "ee856fa87073cf92e11baa4d36f61394de937085",
          ...

You will have to filter for PushEvent, and iterate over the pages of events until getting an event older than a month ago.

Upvotes: 1

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