How can I add "current streak" of contributions from github to my blog?

github, html, html-parsing, ruby, ruby-on-rails

Solution

Considering the GitHub API for Users doesn't yet expose that particular information (number of days for current stream of contributions), you might have to:

scrape it (extract it by reading the user's GitHub page) As klamping mentions in his answer (upvoted), the url to scrap would be: `https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions_calendar_data` `https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions` (for public repos only, though)

SherlockStd has an updated (May 2017) parsing code below:

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

try projects which are using `https://github.com/users/<username>/contributions``_calendar_data` (as listed in Marques Johansson's answer, upvoted)

- IonicaBizau/git-stats:

- akerl/githubchart (Github contribution SVG generator)

- akerl/githubstats (Github contribution statistics)

- build that graph yourself: see the GitHub project git-cal

`git-cal` is a simple script to view commits calendar (similar to GitHub contributions calendar) on command line. Each block in the graph corresponds to a day and is shaded with one of the 5 possible colors, each representing relative number of commits on that day.

- or establish a service that will report, each day, any new commit for that given day to a Google Calendar (using the Google Calendar API through a project like nf/streak). You can then read that information and report it in your blog.

You can find various example of scraping that information:

- `github_team_calendar.py`

- `weekend-commits.js`

As in:

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

- `leaderboard.rb`:

Like:

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)

Problem

I have a personal blog I built using rails. I want to add a section to my site that displays my current streak of github contributions. What would be the best way about doing this? edit: for clarification, here is what I want: just the number of days is all that is necessary for me.

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