This is a quick lambda function that uses environment variables to hold your GITHUB keys, to them scrape the usage statistics and store them in CloudWatch logs. You should configure this to run only once a day, and configure the Lambda execution configuration to run the appropriate amount of time. Once in CloudWatch logs, you can use CloudWatch …

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# forked from https://github.com/AnthonyBloomer/github-traffic-insights
# changed so that it outputs just to cloudwatch
# use Cloudwatch Insights to track GitHub Traffic

import json
import os
from urllib import request


def record_custom_event(event):
    print(json.dumps(event).encode("utf-8"))


def api_req(request_url):
    token = "token " + os.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
    req = request.Request(request_url, headers={"Accept" :"application/vnd.github.v3+json" , "Authorization": token })
    response = request.urlopen(req)
    return json.load(response)

# the default only returns 30 repos so we need to set per_page=100
def lambda_handler(event, context):
    base_url = "https://api.github.com"
    user = os.getenv("GITHUB_USERNAME")
    print("Getting repositories for %s" % user)
    req = api_req("%s/users/%s/repos?per_page=100" % (base_url, user))

    ur = [(r["name"]) for r in req]
    print("Found %s repositories" % len(ur))

    print(" ")

    for repo_name in ur:

        print("Getting referral data for %s" % repo_name)
        referrals = api_req("%s/repos/%s/%s/traffic/popular/referrers" % (base_url, user, repo_name))
        if len(referrals) > 0:
            for ref in referrals:
                referred = {
                    "eventType": "Referral",
                    "repo_name": repo_name,
                    "referrer": ref["referrer"],
                    "count": ref["count"],
                    "uniques": ref["uniques"],
                }
                print(referred)
                record_custom_event(referred)

        print("Getting top referral path data for %s" % repo_name)

        paths = api_req("%s/repos/%s/%s/traffic/popular/paths" % (base_url, user, repo_name))
        if len(paths) > 0:
            for ref in paths:
                paths = {
                    "eventType": "ReferralPath",
                    "repo_name": repo_name,
                    "path": ref["path"],
                    "title": ref["title"],
                    "count": ref["count"],
                    "uniques": ref["uniques"],
                }
                print(paths)
                record_custom_event(paths)

        print("Getting views for %s" % repo_name)
        req = api_req("%s/repos/%s/%s/traffic/views" % (base_url, user, repo_name))
        if req["count"] > 0 or req["uniques"] > 0:
            viewed = {
                "eventType": "View",
                "repo_name": repo_name,
                "count": req["count"],
                "uniques": req["uniques"],
            }
            print(viewed)
            record_custom_event(viewed)

        print("Getting clones for %s" % repo_name)
        req = api_req("%s/repos/%s/%s/traffic/clones" % (base_url, user, repo_name))
        if req["count"] > 0 or req["uniques"] > 0:
            cloned = {
                "eventType": "Clone",
                "repo_name": repo_name,
                "count": req["count"],
                "uniques": req["uniques"],
            }
            record_custom_event(cloned)
        print(" ")