Checking if a user made a commit to Github using API on a given day

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I am trying to build an app to track GitHub "Streaks" (How many days in a row a user has committed to GitHub.) I'm trying to use the GitHub API to do this, but I can't figure out where.

If I can't pull back the streak, if I could find a way to see if they had committed on a given day (like yesterday) I could recursively determine the streak by continuing to check the previous day until there wasn't a commit.

I can find details about a specific commit https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/

And I can retrieve data for a single user: https://developer.github.com/v3/users/#get-a-single-user

But I can't seem to find how to query the API to determine if the user made a commit on a given day.

I see there are several "date" fields in the response coming from developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits. Couldn't you use that ones? — Michele
– Michele, Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 18:52
I think I would need the owner and the repository in order to do that? /repos/:owner/:repo/commits I don't have a specific repo I'm looking for, I'm just curious if they have made any commit. — Luke Schlangen
– Luke Schlangen, Commented Oct 20, 2017 at 19:10

Poonacha · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-20 19:17:07Z

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You can try using the GitHub Search Commits API for this. For example, to find the commits for user km-poonacha on 2017-08-28 you can make the following request.

curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.cloak-preview' \https://api.github.com/search/commits?q=author:km-poonacha+author-date:2017-08-28

Ref. Searching commits

answered Oct 20, 2017 at 19:17

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Luke Schlangen Over a year ago

This is great! Is there a way to just get back the "total_count": 12, so that I don't get the additional payload of all commits since I don't care about them?

Poonacha Over a year ago

i think the best way to restrict the payload is to use &per_page=1 parameter and restrict the number of search results to be shown to its lowest value "1". I am not too sure, but i dont think you can just get the total_count parameter.

Luke Schlangen Over a year ago

That makes sense, it's not a huge payload, so it's not the end of the world, it's just much larger than needed.

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