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How to Create an Insights Link for a GitHub Repository

Published on February 8, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal

First off, what is a GitHub "insights link?" Well, it's a link that you can easily post or share and which will take the reader (or recipient) to a page packed with stats and insights for a specific GitHub repository.

With RepoTracker it's really easy to get such a link. You can just open the details page of any repository – either by selecting it from one of your collections if you are signed in already, or by heading over to the landing page and searching for a repo if you aren't – and then simply copy the URL from your browser.s

The links have the following structure:

https://repo-tracker.com/r/gh/{owner}/{repo}

With that knowledge you can create insights links for any repository you like, just replace {owner} with the username of the account hosting the repo and {repo} with the repository name. Those are always the same as in the GitHub URL of the repository. For example github.com/nuxt/nuxt becomes repo-tracker.com/r/gh/nuxt/nuxt.

Easy as that!

Here's what's on the other end of the link:

RepoTracker repository details for nuxt/nuxt

But wait, there is an even more convenient way. Inspired by githubbox.com I made a shortcut service called github-stats.com, so you can also do this:

GitHub Stats link to nuxt/framework on RepoTracker

You basically just need to squeeze in -stats into the GitHub URL of the repository and you will be redirected to the corresponding RepoTracker insights page.

That's it, give it a try and start sharing!


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