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💡 Coding habits and activity
This plugin displays coding habits based on recent activity, such as active hours and languages recently used.
⚠️ Disclaimer	This plugin is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with GitHub. All product and company names are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders.
Supported features → Full specification	📗 Classic template
	👤 Users 👥 Organizations
	🔑 (scopeless) read:org (optional) read:user (optional) read:packages (optional) repo (optional)
Recent activity charts Mildly interesting facts

➡️ Available options

Option	Description
plugin_habits	Enable habits plugin
type: boolean default: no
plugin_habits_from	Events to use A higher number will increase stats accuracy
type: number (1 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 1000) default: 200
plugin_habits_skipped	Skipped repositories
⏩ Inherits repositories_skipped type: array (newline-separated)
plugin_habits_days	Event maximum age
type: number (1 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 30) default: 14
plugin_habits_facts	Mildly interesting facts It includes indentation type, average number of characters per line of code, and most active time and day
type: boolean default: yes
plugin_habits_charts	Charts It includes commit activity per hour of day and commit activity per day of week Recent language activity may also displayed (it requires extras features to be enabled for web instances) for historical reasons
🌐 Web instances must configure settings.json: metrics.api.github.overuse metrics.run.tempdir metrics.run.git type: boolean default: no
plugin_habits_charts_type	Charts display type classic: <div> based charts, simple and lightweight chartist: <svg> based charts, smooth
🌐 Web instances must configure settings.json: metrics.npm.optional.chartist type: string default: classic allowed values: classic chartist
plugin_habits_trim	Trim unused hours on charts
type: boolean default: no
plugin_habits_languages_limit	Display limit (languages)
type: number (0 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 8) zero behaviour: disable default: 8
plugin_habits_languages_threshold	Display threshold (percentage)
type: string default: 0%

🌐 Configure used timezone

By default, dates use Greenwich meridian (GMT/UTC).

Configure config_timezone (see supported timezone) to avoid time offsets.

Example: configuring timezone

- uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
  with:
    config_timezone: Europe/Paris

ℹ️ Examples workflows

name: Mildly interesting facts
uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
with:
  filename: metrics.plugin.habits.facts.svg
  token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
  base: ""
  plugin_habits: yes
  plugin_habits_facts: yes
  plugin_habits_charts: no
  config_timezone: Europe/Paris

name: Recent activity charts
uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
with:
  filename: metrics.plugin.habits.charts.svg
  token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
  base: ""
  plugin_habits: yes
  plugin_habits_facts: no
  plugin_habits_charts: yes
  config_timezone: Europe/Paris