API to get contributor stats

Hi @GergelyCsatari from my understanding an API has been on the roadmap for some time.

Our first 2 quarters have been focusing on adding additional features, user journeys, and making our data more impact focused, we are moving to a 30-60-90 priority setting for tooling updates.

And within our 30-60-90 stretch Insights will have a v2 update where we’ll not only show charts and metrics on contributions, but also display summaries and describe the impact of the metrics.

@GergelyCsatari Having dashboard APIs has been brought up in discussion, but as of now I don’t believe it’s been brought up in discussion as a current priority. Although we are more than happy on having an open discussion on this :slight_smile: .

@sgupta any comments here?

I’ve heard this from @tkuhrt as well, where @tkuhrt would use API connectors to automate community reports for a few contribution metrics. Is there an API for getting analytics? - Get LFX Tool Help / LFX Insights - LFX Community Forums

In my personal opinion I think this would be a great feature, but it may be some time until we release an API connector for our Insights charts, due to a few updates we have prioritized based off of previous feedback of our UI being hard to navigate and providing meaning to a few metrics.

@GergelyCsatari we’ll be creating an LFX Community Resource repo in GitHub for community connector code soon! Where we would share LFX resources such as, our LFX Security OSSF Scanner: LFX-Engineering/lfx-security-ossf-scanner: LFX Security OSSF Scanner (github.com) would you be willing to share your scraping tool with our community when it’s up?

This would be beneficial for many other communities!

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