A command line tool for generating sparklines from GitHub stats.
GitHub has several APIs for extracting activity statistics in a raw JSON format. Sparkler is a tool that can take this raw data and generate sparkline images to show the activity level over a period of time.
Sparkler will create a sparkline of the commit activity over the last year.
Sparkler can be installed with pip:
$ pip install --user sparkler
There are two inputs required when running sparkler, the GitHub repo you wish to graph and the name of the file to save the graph.
Note
Due to some compatibility issues in some of the used libraries, only jpg file formats have been tested so far. PNG is known to have an issue.
To get the last year's commit activity for the kubernetes/kubernetes repo, use the command line:
sparkler kubernetes/kubernetes activity.jpg
Additional options are available for setting the foreground and background colors of the generated graph. Refer to the help text for details:
sparkler -h
usage: sparkler [-h] [--version] [--background BACKGROUND] [--line LINE]
repo outfile
positional arguments:
repo The GitHub org/repo to report on.
outfile The file name for the generated image. Note: Due to
current library issues, this must be a jpg.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
--background BACKGROUND
The background color of the sparkline image.
--line LINE The sparkline image line color.
Feel free to open GitHub Issues or put up a pull request.