A script that helps you instantly generate a beautiful GitHub Contributions Graph for the last year.

This script doesn't encourage you to cheat. Cheating is bad. But if anybody judges your professional skills by the graph on your GitHub profile (which carries no value), they deserve to see a rich graph.

I created this project more than five years ago. Since then, I have built several much more valuable tools which I encourage you to check:

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1. Create an empty GitHub repository. Do not initialize it.
2. Download the contribute.py script and execute it passing the link on the created repository

python contribute.py --repository=git@github.com:user/repo.git

Now you have a repository with lots of changes in your GitHub account. Note: it takes several minutes for GitHub to reindex your activity.

The script initializes an empty git repository, creates a text file and starts generating changes to the file for every day within the last year (0-20 commits per day). Once the commits are generated it links the created repository with the remote repository and pushes the changes.

You might want to make the generated repository private. It is free on GitHub. You only need to set up your account to show private contributions. This way GitHub users will see that you contributed something, but they won't be able to see what exactly.

You can customize how often to commit and how many commits a day to make, etc.

For instance, with the following command, the script will make from 1 to 12 commits a day. It will commit 60% days a year.

python contribute.py --max_commits=12 --frequency=60 --repository=git@github.com:user/repo.git

Use --no_weekends option if you don't want to commit on weekends

python contribute.py --no_weekends

If you do not set the --repository argument the script won't push the changes. This way you can import the generated repository yourself.

Use --days_before and --days_after to specify how many days before the current date the script should start committing, and how many days after the current date it will keep committing.

python contribute.py --days_before=10 --days_after=15

Run python contribute.py --help to get help.

To be able to execute the script you need to have Python and Git installed.

It might take several minutes for GitHub to reindex your activity. Check if the repository has new commits and wait a couple of minutes.

Are you using a private repository? If so, enable showing private contributions following this guide.

Make sure the email address you have in GitHub is the same as you have in your local settings. GitHub counts contributions only when they are made using the corresponding email.

Check your local email settings with:

git config --get user.email

If it doesn't match with the one from GitHub reset it with

git config --global user.email "user@example.com"

Create a new repository and rerun the script.

Maybe you tried to use an existing repository. If so, make sure you are using a new one which is not initialized.

If none of the options helped, open an issue and I will fix it as soon as possible.