Github reports traffic to a repository in the Insights/Graphs section of a repository. This includes the number of visits to the repository, the number of times it was cloned each day, popular pages, and referring sites. Number of visitors and number of clones is "only reported for two weeks". This information is also available via the GitHub API for long term archiving.
pip install python-dateutil
git clone https://github.com/dpnm-ni/github-traffic.git
Create a directory to save the output of the script to.
Copy the configuration file, github_traffic/config.ini. You can put it in the same directory
that you create above.
Open GitHub settings, and go to the section Personal access tokens. Create a new
token. The only permission that this key needs is public_repo, to read statistics
for a public repository.
Run the script, specifying the path to the config file and the output directory:
cd github-traffic/github_traffic
python3 github_get_traffic.py -c config.ini -o {OUTPUT_DIR}
This script can be run via cron once a week to keep a full record of historical data.