Get info from the new metric "Used By"

[matheusflauzino]

GitHub introduced a new metric, which I find much more relevant than stars or downloads. It shows the number of times a dependency is used by other repositories. It would be nice to have that metric added to Github-scraper.

[nelsonic]

@matheusflauzino agree 100% that the Used by metric is useful. 👍
If you or anyone else has time to add the test(s) and selector in a Pull Request,
I'd be happy to merge it.

[nelsonic]

I just took a quick look into this and even though it appears to be there in the DOM:
https://github.com/dwyl/decache

But sadly, it does not appear when the page is requested via node.js ...
Our node.js http.request only receives the html and none of the client-side rendered javascript...

Try it for yourself, disable JS in your browser and refresh the page:

No more "Used by" ...

We could get around this by using a Chromium instance (e.g: PhantomJS) and waiting for the JS to finish rendering. However, I checked and it won't work because we would need a logged in session in PhantomJS (the counter is not shown if you visit the page in incognito mode...).

[nelsonic]

Suggestions very much welcome for how to overcome this ... 👍