How can I add the “current strip” of github contributions to my blog?

Question

I have a personal blog that I built using rails. I want to add a section to my site that displays my current github contrib strip. What would be the best way to do this?

edit: for clarification, here is what I want:

I need only the number of days.

Answer 1

Given the GitHub API for users , until it reveals this specific information (number of days for the current contribution stream), you should:

• clean it (extract it by reading the GitHub user page)
  As klamping mentions in its answer (upvoted), url to scrap will be:
  https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions_calendar_data cases>
  https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions
  (for public repositions only)

  SherlockStd contains the updated (May 2017) analysis code below:

   https://github-stats.com/api/user/streak/current/:username 

• try projects that use https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions _calendar_data (as stated in Marques Johansson answer , upvoted)

  • IonicaBizau / git -stats :

• akerl / githubchart (SVG generator in Github format)
• akerl / githubstats (Github contribution statistics)

• build this graph yourself: see the GitHub git -cal project

git-cal is a simple script to view the commit calendar (similar to the GitHub contribution calendar) on the command line.
Each block on the graph corresponds to a day and is shaded by one of 5 possible colors, each of which represents the relative number of commits on that day.

• or create a service that will report every day about any new commit for a given day in Google Calendar (using the Google Calendar API through a project, for example, a series ).
  You can then read this information and report it on your blog.

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You can find a different example of scraping this information:

• github_team_calendar.py
• weekend-commits.js

How in:

 $.getJSON('https://github.com/users/' + location.pathname.replace(/\//g, '') + '/contributions_calendar_data', weekendWork); 

• leaderboard.rb :

how

 leaderboard = members.map do |u| user_stats = get("https://github.com/users/#{u}/contributions_calendar_data") total = user_stats.map { |s| s[1] }.reduce(&:+) [u, total] end 

• ... (you get the idea)

Answer 2

The url for plain JSON data was : https://github.com/users/[username†/contributions_calendar_data [Edit: it seems this url is no longer working)

There is a URL that generates an SVG that pointed out other answers. Here: https://github.com/users/[username†/contributions

Just replace [username] with your github username in the url and you can see the graph. See Other Answers for more detailed explanations.

Answer 3

If you want something that matches the visual appearance of the GitHub chart, check out these projects that use https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions_calendar_data but also apply other factors based on Github logic.

• https://github.com/akerl/githubchart
• https://github.com/akerl/githubstats

Answer 4

Since the URL https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions_calendar_data no longer works, you need to parse the SVG from https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions .

Unfortunately, Github loves security, and CORS is disabled on its server.

To solve this problem, I configured the API for me and everyone who needs it, just GET https://github-stats.com/api/user/streak/current/{username} (CORS enabled), and you will get and reply So:

 { "success":true, "currentStreak": 3 } 

https://github-stats.com will soon realize more statistics endpoints :)

Request a new endpoint at https://github.com/SherlockStd/github-stats.com/issues , it will be nice to find a way to implement them!