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GitHub Readme Stats

Get dynamically generated GitHub stats on your READMEs!

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Features

• GitHub Stats Card
  • Hiding individual stats
  • Showing additional individual stats
  • Showing icons
  • Themes
  • Customization
• GitHub Extra Pins
  • Usage
  • Demo
• Top Languages Card
  • Usage
  • Language stats algorithm
  • Exclude individual repositories
  • Hide individual languages
  • Show more languages
  • Compact Language Card Layout
  • Donut Chart Language Card Layout
  • Donut Vertical Chart Language Card Layout
  • Pie Chart Language Card Layout
  • Hide Progress Bars
  • Demo
• Wakatime Stats Card
  • Demo
• All Demos
  • Quick Tip (Align The Cards)
• Deploy on your own
  • On Vercel
    • 📽️ Check Out Step By Step Video Tutorial By @codeSTACKr
  • On other platforms
  • Disable rate limit protections
  • Keep your fork up to date
• 💖 Support the project

Important Notice

Warning

Since the GitHub API only allows 5k requests per hour per user account, the public Vercel instance hosted on https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api could possibly hit the rate limiter (see #1471). We use caching to prevent this from happening (see https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats#common-options). You can turn off these rate limit protections by deploying your own Vercel instance.

GitHub Stats Card

Copy-paste this into your markdown content, and that is it. Simple!

Change the ?username= value to your GitHub username.

[![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Warning

By default, the stats card only shows statistics like stars, commits and pull requests from public repositories. To show private statistics on the stats card, you should deploy your own instance using your own GitHub API token.

Note

Available ranks are S (top 1%), A+ (12.5%), A (25%), A- (37.5%), B+ (50%), B (62.5%), B- (75%), C+ (87.5%) and C (everyone). This ranking scheme is based on the Japanese academic grading system. The global percentile is calculated as a weighted sum of percentiles for each statistic (number of commits, pull requests, issues, stars and followers), based on the cumulative distribution function of the exponential and the log-normal distributions. The implementation can be investigated at src/calculateRank.js. The circle around the rank shows 100 minus the global percentile.

Hiding individual stats

You can pass a query parameter &hide= to hide any specific stats with comma-separated values.

Options: &hide=stars,commits,prs,issues,contribs

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&hide=contribs,prs)

Showing additional individual stats

You can pass a query parameter &show= to show any specific additional stats with comma-separated values.

Options: &show=reviews,discussions_started,discussions_answered

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show=reviews)

Showing icons

To enable icons, you can pass &show_icons=true in the query param, like so:

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true)

Themes

With inbuilt themes, you can customize the look of the card without doing any manual customization.

Use &theme=THEME_NAME parameter like so :

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&theme=radical)

All inbuilt themes

GitHub Readme Stats comes with several built-in themes (e.g. dark, radical, merko, gruvbox, tokyonight, onedark, cobalt, synthwave, highcontrast, dracula).

You can look at a preview for all available themes or checkout the theme config file. You can also contribute new themes if you like, contributing guidelines can be found here.

Responsive Card Theme

Since GitHub will re-upload the cards and serve them from their CDN, we can not infer the browser/GitHub theme on the server side. There are, however, four methods you can use to create dynamics themes on the client side.

Use the transparent theme

We have included a transparent theme that has a transparent background. This theme is optimized to look good on GitHub's dark and light default themes. You can enable this theme using the &theme=transparent parameter like so:

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&theme=transparent)

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Add transparent alpha channel to a themes bg_color

You can use the bg_color parameter to make any of the available themes transparent. This is done by setting the bg_color to a color with a transparent alpha channel (i.e. bg_color=00000000):

![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&bg_color=00000000)

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Use GitHub's theme context tag

You can use GitHub's theme context tags to switch the theme based on the user GitHub theme automatically. This is done by appending #gh-dark-mode-only or #gh-light-mode-only to the end of an image URL. This tag will define whether the image specified in the markdown is only shown to viewers using a light or a dark GitHub theme:

[![Anurag's GitHub stats-Dark](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&theme=dark#gh-dark-mode-only)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats#gh-dark-mode-only)
[![Anurag's GitHub stats-Light](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&theme=default#gh-light-mode-only)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats#gh-light-mode-only)

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Use GitHub's new media feature

You can use GitHub's new media feature in HTML to specify whether to display images for light or dark themes. This is done using the HTML <picture> element in combination with the prefers-color-scheme media feature.

<picture>
  <source
    srcset="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true&theme=dark"
    media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)"
  />
  <source
    srcset="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true"
    media="(prefers-color-scheme: light), (prefers-color-scheme: no-preference)"
  />
  <img src="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true" />
</picture>

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Customization

You can customize the appearance of your Stats Card or Repo Card however you wish with URL parameters.

Common Options

• title_color - Card's title color (hex color). Default: 2f80ed.
• text_color - Body text color (hex color). Default: 434d58.
• icon_color - Icons color if available (hex color). Default: 4c71f2.
• border_color - Card's border color (hex color). Default: e4e2e2 (Does not apply when hide_border is enabled).
• bg_color - Card's background color (hex color) or a gradient in the form of angle,start,end. Default: fffefe
• hide_border - Hides the card's border (boolean). Default: false
• theme - Name of the theme, choose from all available themes. Default: default theme.
• cache_seconds - Sets the cache header manually (min: 14400, max: 86400). Default: 14400 seconds (4 hours).
• locale - Sets the language in the card (e.g. cn, de, es, etc.). Default: en.
• border_radius - Corner rounding on the card. Default: 4.5.

Warning

We use caching to decrease the load on our servers (see https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/issues/1471#issuecomment-1271551425). Our cards have a default cache of 4 hours (14400 seconds). Also, note that the cache is clamped to a minimum of 4 hours and a maximum of 24 hours.

Gradient in bg_color

You can provide multiple comma-separated values in the bg_color option to render a gradient with the following format:

&bg_color=DEG,COLOR1,COLOR2,COLOR3...COLOR10

Stats Card Exclusive Options

• hide - Hides the specified items from stats (Comma-separated values). Default: [] (blank array).
• hide_title - (boolean). Default: false.
• card_width - Sets the card's width manually (number). Default: 500px (approx.).
• hide_rank - (boolean) hides the rank and automatically resizes the card width. Default: false.
• rank_icon - Shows alternative rank icon (i.e. github, percentile or default). Default: default.
• show_icons - (boolean). Default: false.
• include_all_commits - Counts total commits instead of just the current year commits (boolean). Default: false.
• line_height - Sets the line height between text (number). Default: 25.
• exclude_repo - Excludes stars from specified repositories (Comma-separated values). Default: [] (blank array).
• custom_title - Sets a custom title for the card. Default: <username> GitHub Stats.
• text_bold - Uses bold text (boolean). Default: true.
• disable_animations - Disables all animations in the card (boolean). Default: false.
• ring_color - Color of the rank circle (hex color). Defaults to the theme ring color if it exists and otherwise the title color.
• number_format - Switches between two available formats for displaying the card values short (i.e. 6.6k) and long (i.e. 6626). Default: short.
• show - Shows additional items on stats card (i.e. reviews, discussions_started or discussions_answered) (Comma-separated values). Default: [] (blank array).

Note

When hide_rank=true, the minimum card width is 270 px + the title length and padding.

Repo Card Exclusive Options

• show_owner - Shows the repo's owner name (boolean). Default: false.

Language Card Exclusive Options

• hide - Hides the languages specified from the card (Comma-separated values). Default: [] (blank array).
• hide_title - (boolean). Default: false.
• layout - Switches between five available layouts normal & compact & donut & donut-vertical & pie. Default: normal.
• card_width - Sets the card's width manually (number). Default 300.
• langs_count - Shows more languages on the card, between 1-20 (number). Default: 5 for normal and donut, 6 for other layouts.
• exclude_repo - Excludes specified repositories (Comma-separated values). Default: [] (blank array).
• custom_title - Sets a custom title for the card (string). Default Most Used Languages.
• disable_animations - Disables all animations in the card (boolean). Default: false.
• hide_progress - Uses the compact layout option, hides percentages, and removes the bars. Default: false.
• size_weight - Configures language stats algorithm (number) (see Language stats algorithm), defaults to 1.
• count_weight - Configures language stats algorithm (number) (see Language stats algorithm), defaults to 0.

Warning

Language names should be URI-escaped, as specified in Percent Encoding (i.e: c++ should become c%2B%2B, jupyter notebook should become jupyter%20notebook, etc.) You can use urlencoder.org to help you do this automatically.

Wakatime Card Exclusive Options

• hide - Hides the languages specified from the card (Comma-separated values). Default: [] (blank array).
• hide_title - (boolean). Default false.
• line_height - Sets the line height between text (number). Default 25.
• hide_progress - Hides the progress bar and percentage (boolean). Default false.
• custom_title - Sets a custom title for the card (string). Default Wakatime Stats.
• layout - Switches between two available layouts default & compact. Default default.
• langs_count - Limits the number of languages on the card, defaults to all reported languages (number).
• api_domain - Sets a custom API domain for the card, e.g. to use services like Hakatime or Wakapi (string). Default Waka API.

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GitHub Extra Pins

GitHub extra pins allow you to pin more than 6 repositories in your profile using a GitHub readme profile.

Yay! You are no longer limited to 6 pinned repositories.

Usage

Copy-paste this code into your readme and change the links.

Endpoint: api/pin?username=anuraghazra&repo=github-readme-stats

[![Readme Card](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/pin/?username=anuraghazra&repo=github-readme-stats)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Demo

Use show_owner query option to include the repo's owner username

Top Languages Card

The top languages card shows a GitHub user's most frequently used languages.

Warning

By default, the language card shows language results only from public repositories. To include languages used in private repositories, you should deploy your own instance using your own GitHub API token.

Note

Top Languages does not indicate the user's skill level or anything like that; it's a GitHub metric to determine which languages have the most code on GitHub. It is a new feature of github-readme-stats.

Warning

This card shows languages usage only inside your own non-forked repositories, not depending from who is the author of the commits. It does not include your contributions into another users/organizations repositories. Currently there are no way to get this data from GitHub API. If you want this behavior to be improved you can support this feature request created by @rickstaa inside GitHub Community.

Usage

Copy-paste this code into your readme and change the links.

Endpoint: api/top-langs?username=anuraghazra

[![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Language stats algorithm

We use the following algorithm to calculate the languages percentages on the language card:

ranking_index = (byte_count ^ size_weight) * (repo_count ^ count_weight)

By default, only the byte count is used for determining the languages percentages shown on the language card (i.e. size_weight=1 and count_weight=0). You can, however, use the &size_weight= and &count_weight= options to weight the language usage calculation. The values must be positive real numbers. More details about the algorithm can be found here.

• &size_weight=1&count_weight=0 - (default) Orders by byte count.
• &size_weight=0.5&count_weight=0.5 - (recommended) Uses both byte and repo count for ranking
• &size_weight=0&count_weight=1 - Orders by repo count

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&size_weight=0.5&count_weight=0.5)

Exclude individual repositories

You can use the &exclude_repo=repo1,repo2 parameter to exclude individual repositories.

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&exclude_repo=github-readme-stats,anuraghazra.github.io)

Hide individual languages

You can use &hide=language1,language2 parameter to hide individual languages.

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&hide=javascript,html)

Show more languages

You can use the &langs_count= option to increase or decrease the number of languages shown on the card. Valid values are integers between 1 and 10 (inclusive), and the default is 5.

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&langs_count=8)

Compact Language Card Layout

You can use the &layout=compact option to change the card design.

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&layout=compact)

Donut Chart Language Card Layout

You can use the &layout=donut option to change the card design.

[![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&layout=donut)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Donut Vertical Chart Language Card Layout

You can use the &layout=donut-vertical option to change the card design.

[![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&layout=donut-vertical)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Pie Chart Language Card Layout

You can use the &layout=pie option to change the card design.

[![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&layout=pie)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Hide Progress Bars

You can use the &hide_progress=true option to hide the percentages and the progress bars (layout will be automatically set to compact).

![Top Langs](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=anuraghazra&hide_progress=true)

Demo

• Compact layout

• Donut Chart layout

• Donut Vertical Chart layout

• Pie Chart layout

• Hidden progress bars

Wakatime Stats Card

Warning

Please be aware that we currently only show data from Wakatime profiles that are public. You therefore have to make sure that BOTH Display code time publicly and Display languages, editors, os, categories publicly are enabled.

Change the ?username= value to your Wakatime username.

[![Harlok's wakatime stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/wakatime?username=ffflabs)](https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats)

Demo

• Compact layout

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All Demos

• Default

• Hiding specific stats

• Showing additional stats

• Showing icons

• Shows Github logo instead rank level

• Shows user rank percentile instead of rank level

• Customize Border Color

• Include All Commits

• Themes

Choose from any of the default themes

• Gradient

• Customizing stats card

• Setting card locale

• Customizing repo card

• Top languages

• WakaTime card

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Quick Tip (Align The Cards)

By default, GitHub does not lay out the cards side by side. To do that, you can use this approach:

<a href="https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats">
  <img height=200 align="center" src="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra" />
</a>
<a href="https://github.com/anuraghazra/convoychat">
  <img height=200 align="center" src="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs?username=anuraghazra&layout=compact&langs_count=8&card_width=320" />
</a>

<a href="https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats">
  <img align="center" src="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/pin/?username=anuraghazra&repo=github-readme-stats" />
</a>
<a href="https://github.com/anuraghazra/convoychat">
  <img align="center" src="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/pin/?username=anuraghazra&repo=convoychat" />
</a>

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Deploy on your own

On Vercel

📽️ Check Out Step By Step Video Tutorial By @codeSTACKr

Since the GitHub API only allows 5k requests per hour, my https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api could possibly hit the rate limiter. If you host it on your own Vercel server, then you do not have to worry about anything. Click on the deploy button to get started!

Note

Since #58, we should be able to handle more than 5k requests and have fewer issues with downtime 😁.

Note

If you are on the Pro (i.e. paid) Vercel plan, the maxDuration value found in the Vercel.json can be increased when your Vercel instance frequently times out during the card request. You are advised to keep this value lower than 30 seconds to prevent high memory usage.

🛠️ Step-by-step guide on setting up your own Vercel instance

1. Go to vercel.com.
2. Click on Log in.
3. Sign in with GitHub by pressing Continue with GitHub.
4. Sign in to GitHub and allow access to all repositories if prompted.
5. Fork this repo.
6. Go back to your Vercel dashboard.
7. To import a project, click the Add New... button and select the Project option.
8. Click the Continue with GitHub button, search for the required Git Repository and import it by clicking the Import button. Alternatively, you can import a Third-Party Git Repository using the Import Third-Party Git Repository -> link at the bottom of the page.
9. Create a personal access token (PAT) here and enable the repo and user permissions (this allows access to see private repo and user stats).
10. Add the PAT as an environment variable named PAT_1 (as shown).
11. Click deploy, and you're good to go. See your domains to use the API!

On other platforms

Warning

This way of using GRS is not officially supported and was added to cater to some particular use cases where Vercel could not be used (e.g. #2341). The support for this method, therefore, is limited.

🛠️ Step-by-step guide for deploying on other platforms

1. Fork or clone this repo as per your needs
2. Add express to the dependencies section of package.json https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/blob/ba7c2f8b55eac8452e479c8bd38b044d204d0424/package.json#L54-L61
3. Run npm i if needed (initial setup)
4. Run node express.js to start the server, or set the entry point to express.js in package.json if you're deploying on a managed service https://github.com/anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/blob/ba7c2f8b55eac8452e479c8bd38b044d204d0424/package.json#L11
5. You're done 🎉

Disable rate limit protections

Github Readme Stats contains several Vercel environment variables that can be used to remove the rate limit protections:

• CACHE_SECONDS: This environment variable takes precedence over our cache minimum and maximum values and can circumvent these values for self Hosted Vercel instances.

See the Vercel documentation on adding these environment variables to your Vercel instance.

Keep your fork up to date

You can keep your fork, and thus your private Vercel instance up to date with the upstream using GitHub's Sync Fork button. You can also use the pull package created by @wei to automate this process.

💖 Support the project

I open-source almost everything I can and try to reply to everyone needing help using these projects. Obviously, this takes time. You can use this service for free.

However, if you are using this project and are happy with it or just want to encourage me to continue creating stuff, there are a few ways you can do it:

• Giving proper credit when you use github-readme-stats on your readme, linking back to it :D
• Starring and sharing the project 🚀
• - You can make one-time donations via PayPal. I'll probably buy a coffee tea. 🍵

Thanks! ❤️

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