Looking to get number of commits from a public repo that is an organization. I attempted to use the url:https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin/stats/contributors and it seems like this link is for users. Not entirely sure why it is not working correctly.
I have used the same formatted link on another github repo and it seems to work: https://api.github.com/repos/cms-sw/cmssw/stats/contributors
According to the Github docs on this topic, gathering the repositories stats is an expensive operation, so the data is cached.
It returns an empty object with a 202 response code if there's no data cached, and a job to generate the stats for this repository is queued. You'll get a response code 200 if you repeat your request once the job has finished. I believe this is the behavior you were encountering.
I have tried with a few (small) private repositories and the stats were generated in seconds, although it may take significantly longer for repositories with a huge commit history or a large number of contributors.
