How to get the total views?

[vandan-revanur]

The workflow currently on this repo contains commands to extract and update the latest clone count. How do I do the same for the total number of views?

Could you please possibly update the readme to reflect the code updating the view count?

[andry81]

@vandan-revanur Just for instance, another project to do it: https://github.com/andry81-devops/github-accum-stats

[vandan-revanur]

Thanks for the reference. However, in that repo there are multiple repos that need to setup and it is quite cumbersome. I would like to set it up like how you have done in your repo.

It would be very helpful if you could show it could be done.

[MShawon]

@vandan-revanur create a new workflow from the Actions tab and paste this code

name: GitHub Traffic Count Update Everyday

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 */24 * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: gh login
        run: echo "${{ secrets.SECRET_TOKEN }}" | gh auth login --with-token

      - name: parse latest traffic count
        run: |
          curl --user "${{ github.actor }}:${{ secrets.SECRET_TOKEN }}" \
            -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
            https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/traffic/views \
            > traffic.json
      - name: create gist and download previous count
        id: set_id
        run: |
          if gh secret list | grep -q "TRAFFIC_ID"
          then
              echo "TRAFFIC_ID found"
              echo ::set-output name=GIST::${{ secrets.TRAFFIC_ID }}
              curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/${{ github.actor }}/${{ secrets.TRAFFIC_ID }}/raw/traffic.json > clone_before.json
              if cat clone_before.json | grep '404: Not Found'; then
                echo "TRAFFIC_ID not valid anymore. Creating another gist..."
                traffic_id=$(gh gist create traffic.json | awk -F / '{print $NF}')
                echo $traffic_id | gh secret set TRAFFIC_ID
                echo ::set-output name=GIST::$traffic_id
                cp traffic.json traffic_before.json
                git rm --ignore-unmatch TRAFFIC.md
              fi
          else
              echo "TRAFFIC_ID not found. Creating a gist..."
              traffic_id=$(gh gist create traffic.json | awk -F / '{print $NF}')
              echo $traffic_id | gh secret set TRAFFIC_ID
              echo ::set-output name=GIST::$traffic_id
              cp traffic.json traffic_before.json
          fi
      - name: update traffic.json
        run: |
          curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/MShawon/d37c49ee4ce03f64b92ab58b0cec289f/raw/traffic.py > traffic.py
          python3 traffic.py
      - name: Update gist with latest count
        run: |
          content=$(sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/\t/\\t/g' -e 's/\"/\\"/g' -e 's/\r//g' "traffic.json" | sed -E ':a;N;$!ba;s/\r{0,1}\n/\\n/g')
          echo '{"description": "${{ github.repository }} traffic statistics", "files": {"traffic.json": {"content": "'"$content"'"}}}' > post_traffic.json
          curl -s -X PATCH \
            --user "${{ github.actor }}:${{ secrets.SECRET_TOKEN }}" \
            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
            -d @post_traffic.json https://api.github.com/gists/${{ steps.set_id.outputs.GIST }} > /dev/null 2>&1
          if [ ! -f TRAFFIC.md ]; then
            shields="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?color=success&label=Views&query=count&url="
            url="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/${{ github.actor }}/${{ steps.set_id.outputs.GIST }}/raw/traffic.json"
            repo="https://github.com/MShawon/github-clone-count-badge"
            echo ''> TRAFFIC.md
            echo '
            **Markdown**
            ```markdown' >> TRAFFIC.md
            echo "[![GitHub Traffic]($shields$url&logo=github)]($repo)" >> TRAFFIC.md
            echo '

        **HTML**
        ```html' >> TRAFFIC.md
        echo "<a href='$repo'><img alt='GitHub Traffic' src='$shields$url&logo=github'></a>" >> TRAFFIC.md
        echo '```' >> TRAFFIC.md

        git add TRAFFIC.md
        git config --global user.name "GitHub Action"
        git config --global user.email "action@github.com"
        git commit -m "create traffic count badge"
      fi
  - name: Push
    uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
    with:
      github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

[rdavydov]

@vandan-revanur create a new workflow from the Actions tab and paste this code

This implementation has a bug (well, more like a typo: not all occurrences of clone_before were replaced with traffic_before ;)), so it gives an error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'traffic_before.json'

Here is the corrected version for anyone who is interested:

name: GitHub Traffic Count Update Everyday

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 */24 * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: gh login
        run: echo "${{ secrets.SECRET_TOKEN }}" | gh auth login --with-token

      - name: parse latest traffic count
        run: |
          curl --user "${{ github.actor }}:${{ secrets.SECRET_TOKEN }}" \
            -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
            https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/traffic/views \
            > traffic.json
      - name: create gist and download previous count
        id: set_id
        run: |
          if gh secret list | grep -q "TRAFFIC_ID"
          then
              echo "TRAFFIC_ID found"
              echo ::set-output name=GIST::${{ secrets.TRAFFIC_ID }}
              curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/${{ github.actor }}/${{ secrets.TRAFFIC_ID }}/raw/traffic.json > traffic_before.json
              if cat traffic_before.json | grep '404: Not Found'; then
                echo "TRAFFIC_ID not valid anymore. Creating another gist..."
                traffic_id=$(gh gist create traffic.json | awk -F / '{print $NF}')
                echo $traffic_id | gh secret set TRAFFIC_ID
                echo ::set-output name=GIST::$traffic_id
                cp traffic.json traffic_before.json
                git rm --ignore-unmatch TRAFFIC.md
              fi
          else
              echo "TRAFFIC_ID not found. Creating a gist..."
              traffic_id=$(gh gist create traffic.json | awk -F / '{print $NF}')
              echo $traffic_id | gh secret set TRAFFIC_ID
              echo ::set-output name=GIST::$traffic_id
              cp traffic.json traffic_before.json
          fi
      - name: update traffic.json
        run: |
          curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/MShawon/d37c49ee4ce03f64b92ab58b0cec289f/raw/traffic.py > traffic.py
          python3 traffic.py
      - name: Update gist with latest count
        run: |
          content=$(sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/\t/\\t/g' -e 's/\"/\\"/g' -e 's/\r//g' "traffic.json" | sed -E ':a;N;$!ba;s/\r{0,1}\n/\\n/g')
          echo '{"description": "${{ github.repository }} traffic statistics", "files": {"traffic.json": {"content": "'"$content"'"}}}' > post_traffic.json
          curl -s -X PATCH \
            --user "${{ github.actor }}:${{ secrets.SECRET_TOKEN }}" \
            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
            -d @post_traffic.json https://api.github.com/gists/${{ steps.set_id.outputs.GIST }} > /dev/null 2>&1
          if [ ! -f TRAFFIC.md ]; then
            shields="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?color=success&label=Views&query=count&url="
            url="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/${{ github.actor }}/${{ steps.set_id.outputs.GIST }}/raw/traffic.json"
            repo="https://github.com/MShawon/github-clone-count-badge"
            echo ''> TRAFFIC.md
            echo '
            **Markdown**
            ```markdown' >> TRAFFIC.md
            echo "[![GitHub Traffic]($shields$url&logo=github)]($repo)" >> TRAFFIC.md
            echo '

        **HTML**
        ```html' >> TRAFFIC.md
        echo "<a href='$repo'><img alt='GitHub Traffic' src='$shields$url&logo=github'></a>" >> TRAFFIC.md
        echo '```' >> TRAFFIC.md

        git add TRAFFIC.md
        git config --global user.name "GitHub Action"
        git config --global user.email "action@github.com"
        git commit -m "create traffic count badge"
      fi
  - name: Push
    uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
    with:
      github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}