feat: add GitHub used by metric

[DirtyF]

GitHub introduced a new metric, which I find much more relevant than stars or downloads. It shows the number of times a dependency is used by other repositories.
It would be nice to have that metric added to Staticgen for static site generators distributed as a package.

[erquhart]

Yeah I'm in agreement 👍👍

[relhajj]

where can I find this metric ?

[erquhart]

GitHub displays it on individual repos, check the top of ours for example. I assume it's available through their API as well.

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[nticaric]

How is this metric added to a repository?

[douglasg14b]

I would also like to know how this metric is added to a repository.

[douglasg14b]

After some digging it seems that this metric is reliant on https://github.com/netlify/staticgen/network/dependents

Which in this case is none, at least according to github.

[erquhart]

@nticaric GitHub shows package metrics for projects that use a package manager, eg. if your repo has a package.json, it will use that to show your dependency network.

@douglasg14b this issue isn't about the package metrics for the staticgen repo, it's about package metrics for the projects shown on the site.

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[hansiemithun]

Is there an api that will provide used by information, stars information?

[erquhart]

The data is in this gist, updated daily and keeps 60 days history: https://gist.github.com/netlify-bot/99f2094783ddb2025bd1033f666c34cc#file-staticgen-archive-json

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[hansiemithun]

@erquhart If it was addressed to me, i am very sorry, not clear... please elaboarate. I can only see code, no api info

[erquhart]

There is no API, the site uses the GitHub Gist API to fetch and update the JSON file in that Gist.

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[hansiemithun]

As per this data, do we need to consider the array object which starts from second key ???

[erquhart]

It’s an array arrays, each array has shape:

[
  timestamp, // timestamp from when this data was retrieved
  [
    {
      id, // unique identifier derived from filename 
      s, // repo stars
      fk, // repo forks
      i, // repo issues
      f, // Twitter followers
    },
    ...
  ],
]

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