I've used a similar technique to scrape GitHub profile statistics data and record it over time. It seems to work really well, particularly since the GitHub API

I've used a similar technique to scrape GitHub profile statistics data and record it over time. It seems to work really well, particularly since the GitHub API doesn't record project view data for a period longer than 14 days. https://github.com/jstrieb/github-stats https://github.com/jstrieb/github-stats