How to get user total commit number of all repositories on GitLab?

Question

For now I am trying this API (just randomly picked an id from a project)

https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/3199253/repository/contributors

And I find that the commit number is always 1 while it is more than 1 on the contributor page. Meanwhile, the list is not completed and a lot of people are not on the returned result.

I checked the documentation and it doesn't seem like I need to paging it or I have the option to do so.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/repositories.html#contributors

Please let me know if there's any better way to count all commits of a user on GitLab. Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: Just found a related issue on Gitlab here:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/233119

Looks like the commit count will always be 1 due to a bug at the moment?

UPDATE: For now I am scanning the list of commits and matching them with the current user with a for loop (they said it has better performance than map()). Guess that would consume unnecessary API call usage.

Do you still have this problem? The bug issue was closed some time ago. — Arty-chan, Mar 17 '23 at 15:37
@Arty-chan Unsure if it is a completed solution yet. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/238226 — Terry Windwalker, Mar 17 '23 at 19:13
ah interesting, agree that removing the differences from the API isn't really a solution — Arty-chan, Mar 17 '23 at 19:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 20 '23 at 14:56

Here's how I've managed to get it :

Download the python-gitlab package
```
python3 -m pip install python-gitlab
```

Update the following script for the targetusername and a valid private token. Then run it :

import gitlab

username = "targetusername"
git_url = "https://gitlab.com/"
gl = gitlab.Gitlab(git_url, "***********")

projects = gl.projects.list()
all_projects = gl.projects.list(all=True)
nb_projects = len(all_projects)

# Get the user ID by username
user = gl.users.list(username=username)[0]
user_name = user.name
user_id = user.id
print(f"Checking for user {username} (#{user_id})")

total_commits = 0
i = 0
while i < nb_projects:
    project = gl.projects.get(all_projects[i].id)
    print(f"Checking project {i}/{nb_projects} : {project.name}...")
    # Filter commits by author ID
    default_branch = project.default_branch
    project_branches = project.branches.list(get_all=True)

    for branch in project_branches:
        branch_name = branch.name
        branch_commits = project.commits.list(ref_name=branch.name, get_all=True)
        for commit in branch_commits:
            total_commits += (
                1
                if commit.author_name == user_name or commit.author_name == username
                else 0
            )

    i += 1

print(f"Total number of commits for {username} : {total_commits}")

How to get user total commit number of all repositories on GitLab?

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