Quick python script to list the number of downloads per release in a repository.

release_downloads.py

import urllib2

#GitHub's API url
github_url = "https://api.github.com/"

#Release URL
github_release = "repos/<user>/<repo>/releases"

#Request info about releases from GitHub
response = urllib2.urlopen(github_url + github_release)

#Full response
response_text = response.read()

#Formatting of response (newline after commans)
formatted_string = ""
for char in response_text:
    if char == ",":
        new_char = ",\n"
    else:
        new_char = char
    formatted_string += new_char

#Iterate through every tag
search_point = 0
while formatted_string.find("tag_name", search_point) != -1:
    #Find where in the string the tag and download texts are
    find_point = formatted_string.find("tag_name", search_point)
    download_point = formatted_string.find("download_count", find_point)

    #Grab download count based on tag location
    download_count = formatted_string[download_point + 16:formatted_string.find(",", download_point + 1)]

    #Grab version name based on tag
    version_name = formatted_string[find_point + 11:formatted_string.find(",", find_point + 1) - 1]

    #Print version and downloads
    print version_name + "\t" + download_count

    #Search on!
    search_point = find_point + 1