Track number of download of a release (binaries) on Github

Question

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

Answer 1

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" }