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haghish / github

a module for building, searching, installing, managing, and mining Stata packages from GitHub
http://haghish.github.io/github/
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Download count? #15

Closed mtyszler closed 3 years ago

mtyszler commented 3 years ago

Dear @haghish

As a supplier of stata package, I'd like to know how many times my package has been downloaded/installed.

For packages installed via ssc we can use https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457967.html

Are you aware of anything equivalent for github ?

haghish commented 3 years ago

Up to the latest update of the github package, I checked the GitHub API and there was still no such thing available for all repositories. GitHub provides download count only for downloading binaries, so far...

On github search, I rank the packages based on their stars and forks, which also gives an idea about the popularity of a repository. It's not the same, but it's an indication...

mtyszler commented 3 years ago

Thanks a lot or the added info