Cody Hosterman, Argenis Fernandez and I have posted a lot of content to GitHub and one of the details I always wanted to know was “# of downloads for project X”. Although GitHub provides some nice traffic and cloning graphs it still does not show the number of downloads for a release. So I took to the GitHub API and PowerShell to figure it out. The below script can be run with three parameters:

  1. $gitHubRepository
  2. $gitHubUserName
  3. $gitHubApiKey

As an example I have used the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK to show sample results. The URL for the PowerShell SDK is

  1. $gitHubRepository = powershellsdk
  2. $gitHubUserName = purestorage-openconnect
    Note: Change this to your specific username to run against your own Public and Private repos.
  3. $gitHubApiKey — Log into your GitHub account and navigate to to generate a new API token or find an existing token.

PowerShell script:

Sample output:

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