[BREAKING CHANGE] WakaTime Stats API Changes

The Problem

As pointed in #863 seems like wakatime changed their public API and now we can only access the resources only if the requests is authenticated.

That’s why while fetching the data it throws “FOBIDDEN” error and we cannot fetch the data.

Solution

So to fix this issue I think it would be nicer if we utilize wakatime’s embeddable share feature https://wakatime.com/share/embed

Benefits of this feature is that

• No need of authentication
• Super nice JSON responses
• Users are can change how much data they need to show (last_7_days, last_30_days etc etc)
• Lot of options to customize without us needing to tinker around with the response data

Usage

• First users would visit https://wakatime.com/share/embed
• Select “languages”
• And generate the embed code

After than it will give you HTML code like this:

And just simply copy past the highlighted part of the string intro github readme stats url

https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/wakatime?shareid=yourusername/6c3e4875-6301-4b7e-955f-9251e06c7d95

And that’s it.

But there’s a catch

As I noticed this json response only shows percentage data and does not provides us with time data about the languages.

@alanhamlett can you help us with this issue?

[anuraghazra]

Hey @SP-XD @FC5570 @LFGaming @LevraGav the fix has been deployed and you can try it out now. (note that we have cache so if you see no changes, just add &v=2 at the end of the url to bust the cache)

[LevraGav]

Yeah it’s working now, thank you very much guys @anuraghazra @SP-XD