Feature request: Include total number of downloads for all releases of a repository

[GruberMarkus]

Hi @yi-Xu-0100,

it would be great if traffic-to-badge would not only store data about views and clones, but also data about the total number of release downloads for a specific repository.

There are badges for it already, for example https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/grubermarkus/set-outlooksignatures/total, but the numbers only cover the last 30 releases due to a GitHub restriction.

Your traffic-to-badge code could help overcome this restriction.

Thanks in advance!

GruberMarkus

[yi-Xu-0100]

👋 @GruberMarkus, I searched it, but I didn't find any relevant data about the total number of release downloads for a specific repository on GitHub rest API. Maybe I'm missing something? 🤔

Should it be stored based on the data of this badge? This seems inaccurate. 😅

[GruberMarkus]

To get download numbers of your assets (files attached to the release), you can use https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#get-a-single-release ("download_count" property of the items of assets list in response).

Pagination is to consider.

Unfortunately, the API only has download_count for the most recent 30 releases, that's why storing history in traffic-to-badge would be great to track download numbers for repositories with many releases.