github-readme-stats-cli

Rust CLI tool that takes the tools from the @github-readme-stats project and repurposes them for anyone who loves the command line interface.

I decided to create this project because every time I wanted to know the technologies most used by the most competent software engineers in the sector I had to go to this link and manually enter the various data into the URL. Furthermore, this project was a good excuse to get my hands on the Rust programming language which is becoming more and more famous lately.

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Thanks to the Rust language, the steps to use my code on your computer are very few. First of all, open the terminal and write:

git clone https://github.com/AntonioBerna/github-readme-stats-cli.git

now use the following command to access the project folder:

cd github-readme-stats-cli

then just use the following command to build the project in your operating system in order to generate the executable file:

cargo build

Once this procedure is finished you can use the program using the following command:

cargo run

In this way you will receive the following message which will help you understand how you should use the program, in particular:

Usage: target/debug/github-readme-stats-cli <username> <optional=[langs_count], [hide]>

so we can use the program for example on my profile to see which are the 3 programming languages ​​that I use the most, perhaps excluding for example HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C# and Processing as follows:

cargo run AntonioBerna 3 "html,css,javascript,c%23,processing"

Note

The special character # is encoded in ASCII hexadecimal code (click here for more detailed information).

So the final output is the following (at least until you start writing everything in Rust 🧑🏻‍💻):

AntonioBerna Most Used Languages
 1 - Python    [ 51.3%  ]
 2 - C         [ 25.73% ]
 3 - C++       [ 22.96% ]

finally if you want to delete the executable in a simple way you can use the following command:

cargo clean