How can you get how many contributions a user did today with the GitHub API

Question

I am making a very simple chrome extension that displays the number of contributions you did today on GitHub. How can i get that number?

Answer 1

You could use Github GraphQL API to request contributionsCollection with a date range :

query { 
  viewer { 
    contributionsCollection(from:"2020-05-05T00:00:00Z", to:"2020-05-05T00:00:00Z") {
      contributionCalendar{
        totalContributions
      }
    }
  }
}

For a specific user:

query { 
  user(login:"krissemicolon") { 
    contributionsCollection(from:"2020-06-01T00:00:00Z", to:"2020-06-01T00:00:00Z") {
      contributionCalendar{
        totalContributions
      }
    }
  }
}

If using graphql API is not an option you could also parse the calendar svg, checkout this