Tracks CITATION.cff files across public repositories on GitHub.
Note: This plot has been produced on cleaned up data that disregards drops in counts of > 100. These steep drops are due to temporal unreliabilities in results from the GitHub Search API, caused by backend work on GitHub at the time of the query (source: personal communication with GitHub staff). For a plot of the uncleaned data, see cff_counts.png.
The tracker uses a GitHub Action workflow to query the GitHub Search API (basically an authenticated call to https://api.github.com/search/code?q=filename:CITATION.cff) for files with the filename CITATION.cff.
The total count is then extracted from the API response, added with the current date to a CSV file, written to a text file (for easy extraction), and put in README.md using regex replacement for the ## Current count: nnnn line.
Another script using pandas and matplotlib creates the graph you see above.
And finally, all updated files are committed and pushed back into this repository.
Copyright © 2021 Stephan Druskat
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Code is licensed under MIT. Documentation files and images are licensed under CC-BY-4.0. The remaining files are licensed under CC0-1.0.
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