I would like to access the data from the GitHub graphs section. For example, I am interested in this data. Some of this data is accessible through githubarchive.org, but it is not identical – there is information in the GitHub graphs that I want to get at that githubarchive.org cannot help me with (e.g. absolute number of forks or contributors for 2011). Further, it does not seem that I can get this data from the GitHub API – since I only get the most recent number of forks or contributors, not a historical number from, say, March 1st 2011.
So, how can I access the information in the GitHub graphs section?
All the data in the github graphs is generated from the commits in the repository.
Clone the repository, and then iterate through each commit grabbing the data you want.