No need to do https://api.github.com/repos/ [git username] / [git project] /releases/ now to check download count.
We can get that via this really neat web app.
Just so you know,
Download counts are only available for release assets, not for the source code archives for the tag. If you look at the bootstrap URLs I provided above they have a bootstrap-XYZ-dist.zip asset which is what the download_count field relates to. If you want to see how many people are downloading a release you need to upload a release zip.
Quoted from here, http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
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