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pi-apps-analytics

This repository is used to host the installation statistics for every app in the Pi-Apps app store. With this data, everybody using Pi-Apps can see how popular any particular app is.

Analytics data can not possibly be used to track you (only the time at which the link was clicked is stored).

When installing, updating, or uninstalling an app in Pi-Apps, a special shlink link is "clicked" by a background process. A pi-apps server runnning an instance of shlink counts the number of "clicks" per day, and with that information we can calculate how many users each app has.
We have written a complicated bash script to use shlink's API and collect the data.

The data is stored and visualized in this repo in a few places:

• In the daily clicks folder, you can see the number of clicks, for every app, on every day.
• In the package_data.json file, automatic metadata is generated for each application in pi-apps using a standard format. This is for easy use by other projects.
• In the clicklist and clicklist_sorted that tally up the total number of net installs an application has.
• In the Net-Install-Graphs.md and Update-Graphs.md where the Net installs and Updates over time are plotted for easy viewing.

pi-apps-analytics's Issues

Is this working correctly? The number of installs went down in the last commit

Quite a few of the apps had their numbers decrease in the last commit quite a bit...
is this just a sideaffect of the 30days and counting thing?

negative numbers and almost all apps reset to 0 installs

starting with this commit: 7a4039c

How are these numbers being gathered

What script are you using, could you share it

Need to add flameshot

Post the analytics script (with any personal info redacted) so it can be adapted to Github Actions

assuming the bitly api can be run entirely through CLI, then we can create a github actions version of this script to keep from you having to run a local version daily