Stats/index page for authors/organisations

[lewisgoddard]

Similar to #86 showing stats for the whole CDN, I'd love a page that shows total requests in the last month for an author, all the packages they have and how popular each one is, that sort of thing.

I guess you'd have to split authors by NPM or GitHub though.

Package page: https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/gh/eustasy/colors.css Proposed author page: https://www.jsdelivr.com/author/gh/eustasy

[MartinKolarik]

This would be relatively easy to add for GitHub, not so easy for npm. Either way, I like this idea and we'll consider it for the next API version.

[MartinKolarik]

@Haroenv getting a list of packages by author name from npm is extremely slow so I'm wondering if it's possible to make a query like that using your index.

There's owners field which contains all package owners so the JS equivalent of what we need would be pkgs.filter(pkg => pkg.owners.find(owner => owner.name === 'thejameskyle')).

[Haroenv]

const packages = await index.search({
  filters: `owner.name:${'thejameskyle'}`,
  attributesToRetrieve: [`name`],
  attributesToHighlight: [],
});

That should do it @MartinKolarik

That's only using the "canonical author", not everyone in "owners" field though, for owners field I'd need to add it to attributesForFaceting in the index settings (doable if needed)

[MartinKolarik]

@Haroenv I knew about that but I need anyone in "owners", especially because "owner" sometimes points to GitHub (but even if it didn't, any in "owners" would still be better).

[Haroenv]

okay, for that to work, it needs to be added to attributesForFaceting, feel free to do a PR, and then will be owners.name in the filter

[MartinKolarik]

Ok, thanks!

[MartinKolarik]

@lewisgoddard looks like we might be finally able to do this. I'm currently considering two approaches:

1. Make it only work for GitHub and npm packages hosted on GitHub and use GitHub user/org as package author. In this case, we could show both GitHub and npm projects on one page. E.g. /author/MartinKolarik would show all my repos and all npm packages pointing to my repos.

2. For GitHub, use GitHub usernames, for npm packages, use the maintainers field - in this case, the package would show for all people that have publish rights for the package.

I'm thinking the first option makes more sense. @jimaek ?

[jimaek]

Yeah first one sounds much cleaner and better

[franciscop]

I'd love to see this as well ❤️