Add option to ignore lines from certain files

[rluvaton]

Expected Behavior

I want to be able to ignore some files when calculating the repo lines (such as package-lock.json)

Actual Behavior

Count the lines from every file

[kas-elvirov]

Github doesn't has such API

[Lazerbeak12345]

Changing to the tokei api may help. They even have badges, and ignore code comments in a ton of languages.

[kas-elvirov]

Changing to the tokei api may help. They even have badges, and ignore code comments in a ton of languages.

Interesting idea. Thanks man

[Lazerbeak12345]

Thanks for the assignment; I appreciate the gesture! I don't know that I'll be able to put much time into this, but I'll see what I can do.

[kas-elvirov]

@Lazerbeak12345 let's keep in touch regarding this task. I want to make it too. It would be great feature)

[Lazerbeak12345]

I played around with their badges api and discovered that it usually works on smaller repos such as:

• this one: . ([![](https://tokei.rs/b1/github/artem-solovev/gloc)](https://github.com/artem-solovev/gloc))
• Their repo: . ([![](https://tokei.rs/b1/github/XAMPPRocky/tokei)](https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei))

But it often either takes a long time to load, or just never resolves for larger repos, such as chromium:

. ([![](https://tokei.rs/b1/github/chromium/chromium)](https://github.com/chromium/chromium))

You may need to wait a bit for these images to load, if they load at all. (I've been getting 502 errors)

[kas-elvirov]

Ohh, that's great. I will keep in mind. I have to postpone this task because i'm working on my new project But i wanted release something similar you suggested anyway because it will be very useful Thanks again )

[Lazerbeak12345]

Just thought i'd look at making this happen, and I've got bad news. Tokei provides an API, sure, but there's two ways of using it:

• Crawl the actual code
• Get badges. Only.

They have no api to get the actual number. This will work but it'll limit the ability to have status updates like "loading..." etc.