Generate visualizations of GitHub user and repository statistics with GitHub Actions. Visualizations can include data for both private repositories, and for repositories you have contributed to, but do not own.
Generated images automatically switch between GitHub light theme and GitHub dark theme.
When someone views a profile on GitHub, it is often because they are curious about a user's open source projects and contributions. Unfortunately, that user's stars, forks, and pinned repositories do not necessarily reflect the contributions they make to private repositories. The data likewise does not present a complete picture of the user's total contributions beyond the current year.
This project aims to collect a variety of profile and repository statistics using the GitHub API. It then generates images that can be displayed in repository READMEs, or in a user's Profile README.
Since the project runs on GitHub Actions, no server is required to regularly regenerate the images with updated statistics. Likewise, since the user runs the analysis code themselves via GitHub Actions, they can use their GitHub access token to collect statistics on private repositories that an external service would be unable to access.
- Create a personal access token (not the default GitHub Actions token) using
the instructions
here.
Personal access token must have permissions:
read:userandrepo. Copy the access token when it is generated – if you lose it, you will have to regenerate the token.- Some users are reporting that it can take a few minutes for the personal access token to work. For more, see #30.
- Create a copy of this repository by clicking here. Note: this is not the same as forking a copy because it copies everything fresh, without the huge commit history.
- Go to the "Secrets" page of your copy of the repository. If this is the README of your copy, click this link to go to the "Secrets" page. Otherwise, go to the "Settings" tab of the newly-created repository and go to the "Secrets" page (bottom left).
- Create a new secret with the name
ACCESS_TOKENand paste the copied personal access token as the value. - It is possible to change the type of statistics reported by adding other
repository secrets.
- To ignore certain repos, add them (in owner/name format e.g.,
jstrieb/github-stats) separated by commas to a new secret—created as before—calledEXCLUDED. - To ignore certain languages, add them (separated by commas) to a new
secret called
EXCLUDED_LANGS. For example, to exclude HTML and TeX you could set the value tohtml,tex. - To show statistics only for "owned" repositories and not forks with
contributions, add an environment variable (under the
envheader in the main workflow) calledEXCLUDE_FORKED_REPOSwith a value oftrue. - These other values are added as secrets by default to prevent leaking information about private repositories. If you're not worried about that, you can change the values directly in the Actions workflow itself.
- To ignore certain repos, add them (in owner/name format e.g.,
- Go to the Actions
Page and press "Run
Workflow" on the right side of the screen to generate images for the first
time.
- The images will be automatically regenerated every 24 hours, but they can be regenerated manually by running the workflow this way.
- Take a look at the images that have been created in the
generatedfolder. - To add your statistics to your GitHub Profile README, copy and paste the
following lines of code into your markdown content. Change the
usernamevalue to your GitHub username. 
 
- Link back to this repository so that others can generate their own statistics images.
- Star this repo if you like it!