So now you can manage and publish your binaries directly on Github, the feature is back from early this month (source).
I've been looking around Github interface and I haven't seen a download tracker. This is a feature Google Code offer and I was wondering if Github has the same.
Please note, I am not interested to know the number of download of a repo, this is a different topic.
Based on Petros answer, I used the two following curl command:
To get the list of all releases including their id and number of download:
curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.manifold-preview+json"
For example to list all the release for the OpenRefine project:
curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/openrefine/openrefine/releases -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.manifold-preview+json"
Then to get details on each release (you will need to run the first query to get the release id)
curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases/assets/:release_id -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.manifold-preview+json"
With the same example to list the details including download number for google-refine-2.5-r2407.zip
curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/openrefine/openrefine/releases/assets/6513 -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.manifold-preview+json"
id: field but no download_count field. Attempting the 2nd method (but tacking on the id to eh URL) results in HTTP 404 Not Foundcurl -i https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases/:releaseID -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.manifold-preview+json" - ie. remove the assets/ path. I still don't see a download_count field though, not sure why.
You can use the GitHub API to get the download_count among other things for a single release asset:
http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#get-a-single-release-asset
This is how it looks currently, but please check the link above just in case anything changed since this answer was written.
GET /repos/:owner/:repo/releases/assets/:id
{
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/releases/assets/1",
"id": 1,
"name": "example.zip",
"label": "short description",
"state": "uploaded",
"content_type": "application/zip",
"size": 1024,
"download_count": 42,
"created_at": "2013-02-27T19:35:32Z",
"updated_at": "2013-02-27T19:35:32Z"
}
You can add a badge to your github repo. See this answer for more details.
Also, there is a nifty project that shows all of this data in a nice website which is over here: https://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/
