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Tuesday, 14. October 2014


Retrieving GitHub download counts

Filed under: Diverses — Steffen Forkmann at 13:41 Uhr

A couple of weeks ago we started the Paket project which is released on GitHub. Unfortunately GitHub doesn’t provide any download stats in the UI.

A quick look at the REST API docs shows that we can retrieve the numbers via JSON.

So let’s open Visual Studio reference FSharp.Data and FSharp.Charting and hack a bit with the JSON type provider:

and voilà:

 

Paket download stats Paket download stats