I Built AnswerTrace . GitHub Discussions Analytics for Your README

Antonis Loukis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:22:31 +0000

I noticed GitHub profiles show a lot about code contributions, but not much about contributions through GitHub Discussions.

So I built AnswerTrace.

AnswerTrace analyzes public GitHub Discussions activity and turns it into a small SVG widget for your README.

It currently shows:

Accepted Answers
Total Upvotes
Top Community
First Accepted Answer

It can also update automatically with GitHub Actions.

Usage

- name: Generate AnswerTrace widget
  uses: antonisloukis/answertrace@v1
  with:
    username: YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME
    token: ${{ secrets.ANSWERTRACE_TOKEN }}
    output: assets/discussion-impact.svg
    accent: "#58A6FF"

Then add the generated SVG to your README:

<img
  src="./assets/discussion-impact.svg"
  alt="GitHub Discussions Impact"
  width="720"
/>

AnswerTrace is open source and available on GitHub Marketplace.

View AnswerTrace on GitHub Marketplace

View the source on GitHub

AnswerTrace is still early, and I'd like to keep improving it based on how people actually use GitHub Discussions.

What other GitHub Discussions metrics would you find useful?

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I Built AnswerTrace . GitHub Discussions Analytics for Your README

Usage