ghstats

Self-hosted dashboard for tracking GitHub repos traffic history longer than 14 days.

🌟 Features

• Collect & store traffic metrics for all your repos
• List of repos and informative dashboard for each
• No React / Next / Postgres etc, just single and small Docker image (20MB) & SQLite

🚀 Usage

docker run -d --env-file .env -p 8080:8080 -v ./data:/app/data --name ghstats ghcr.io/vladkens/ghstats:latest

Or Docker Compose:

services:
  ghstats:
    image: ghcr.io/vladkens/ghstats:latest
    container_name: ghstats
    restart: always
    environment:
      - GITHUB_TOKEN=???
    env_file: .env # or with .env file
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data

Github token generation

ghstats needs Github Token to collect traffic data from API. Token can be obtained with following steps:

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens
2. Generate new token > Generate new token (classic)
3. Enter name, e.g.: ghstats. Scopes: public_repo
4. Click genereate token & copy it
5. Save token to .env file with name GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_XXX

Note: If you want to access private repos too, choose full repo scope and set GHS_INCLUDE_PRIVATE=true to env.

How it works?

Every hour ghstats loads the list of public repositories and their statistics, and saves the data in SQLite. If at the first startup there is no repositories in the database, synchronization will happen immediately, if ghstats is restarted again, synchronization will be performed according to the scheduler. Data is stored per day, re-fetching data for the current day will update existing records in the database.

All public repositories that can be accessed are saved. If you need more detailed configuration – open PR please.

Configuration

Host & Port

You can to change default host / port app will run on with HOST (default 0.0.0.0) and PORT (default 8080) environment variables.

Custom links

If you plan to display your stats publicly, there is an option to add custom links to the header via environment variables, e.g.:

GHS_CUSTOM_LINKS="Blog|https://medium.com/@vladkens,Github|https://github.com/vladkens,Buy me a coffee|https://buymeacoffee.com/vladkens"

Filter repos

You can filter repos for display (and data collection). You can select a specific org/user or a specific list of repositories. This is configured via the GHS_FILTER environment variable. You can use negation in the rules to remove a specific repo or org/user using the ! symbol. By default, all repos are shown.

Note: Statistics on previously downloaded repos remain in database, but they are hidden from display.

Usage examples:

GHS_FILTER=vladkens/macmon,vladkens/ghstats # show only this two repo
GHS_FILTER=vladkens/*,foo-org/bar # show all vladkens repos and one repo from `foo-org`
GHS_FILTER=vladkens/*,!vladkens/apigen-ts # show all vladkens repos except `apigen-ts`
GHS_FILTER=*,!vladkens/apigen-ts,!foo-org/bar # show all repos expect two

GHS_FILTER=*,!fork # show all repos expect forks
GHS_FILTER=vladkens/*,!fork # show all vladkens repos expect forks
GHS_FILTER=*,vladkens/some-fork,!fork # show all repos expect forks and keep `some-fork`

GHS_FILTER=*,!archived # show all repos expect archived

Filtering rules:

• If no filter provided all repos will be shown (implicitly *)
• There are two kind of rules: direct (foo/bar, foo/*) and meta (*, !fork, !archived)
• Direct rule can be wildcard (foo/* – include all repos of foo org / user)
• Direct rules are applied first, then meta
• If no direct rules specified, all repos included by default (implicitly *)
• If at least one direct rule – all repos excluded by default (pass * explicitly to include all)
• Meta-exclusion rules are: !fork, !archived
• Wildcard rules do not work with meta-exclusion rules

API endpoint

You have the ability to get collected data by ghstats via API. At the moment there is only one method available to get all repos list – if you need other data – open PR, please. GHS_API_TOKEN environment variable must be set for the API to work. All API calls if protected by x-api-token header, which should be same with GHS_API_TOKEN variable. CORS is enabled for all hosts, so you can access API from personal pages.

Endpoints

/api/repos – will return list of all repos and overall metrics. Data returted in JSON format. Usage example:

curl -H "x-api-token:1234" http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/repos

{
  "total_count": 20,
  "total_stars": 1000,
  "total_forks": 200,
  "total_views": 20000,
  "total_clones": 500,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": 833875266,
      "name": "vladkens/ghstats",
      "description": "🤩📈 Self-hosted dashboard for tracking GitHub repos traffic history longer than 14 days.",
      "date": "2024-09-08T00:00:00Z",
      "stars": 110,
      "forks": 1,
      "watchers": 110,
      "issues": 5,
      "prs": 1,
      "clones_count": 90,
      "clones_uniques": 45,
      "views_count": 1726,
      "views_uniques": 659
    }
    // ...
  ]
}

🤝 Contributing

All contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

🔍 See also

• repohistory – NodeJS application as a service.