traffic-clones-api

An apiserver for https://shields.io/endpoint. Get the total number of clones and the total number of unique clones of your github repo.

Description

Provides:

• traffic clones total count api:

  /v1/github/traffic/clones/total?git_user=&git_repo=&type=count&label=clones-total

• traffic clones total uniques api:

  /v1/github/traffic/clones/total?git_user=&git_repo=&type=uniques&label=clones-uniques

Deployment Server

Login your cloud server(like aws EC2) first.

1. Generate a github personal access token

Access this page https://github.com/settings/tokens, and press button Generate new token to generate your access token.

For example, the generated access token is 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.

2. Deploy backend api server traffic-clones-api

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/windvalley/traffic-clones-api

$ cd traffic-clones-api

$ go build

# it will listening on :9000 port
$ nohup ./traffic-clones-api -t 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 &

3. Deploy https proxy server by Caddy

Assume that your domain name api.sre.im has been resolved to your cloud server IP.

$ wget https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/download/v2.4.6/caddy_2.4.6_linux_amd64.tar.gz

$ tar zxf caddy_2.4.6_linux_amd64.tar.gz

$ mv ./caddy /usr/local/bin/

$ mkdir api.sre.im

$ cd api.sre.im

$ cat > Caddyfile <<EOF
{
    http_port 80
    https_port 443
}

api.sre.im  {
    reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:9000

    log {
        output file logs/access.log
        format single_field common_log
    }
}
EOF

$ nohup caddy run &

4. Test the deployment

Request the url https://api.sre.im/v1/github/traffic/clones/total?git_user=your-github-username&git_repo=your-github-repo&type=count-or-uniques&label=clones-xxx

The response should be:

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "label": "clones-xxx",
  "message": "1728",
  "color": "orange"
}

Create the badge

1. Open https://shields.io/endpoint in browser explorer

2. Generate the final badge url

Add the url https://api.sre.im/v1/github/traffic/clones/total?git_user=your-github-username&git_repo=your-github-repo&type=count-or-uniques&label=clones-xxx in url blank.

Then click Copy Badge URL to copy it to system clipboard.

Finally, add your badge link ![traffic clones total](the content of system clipboard) to the README.md of your github repo.

The badge will be shown as:

License

This project is under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.