ReadMe GitHub Profile Stats saying "Could not fetch total commits"

[aidasofialily-cmd]

Issue loading commits problem

I having accessing commits fetch the commit total.

Screenshots /Demo link

https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/18d0d4ae-2d99-4a37-9faf-73e5714caac7

Additional context

No response

Expected behavior

Was supposed to show stats including total commits

[Pranesh-2005]

Tru https://GitHub.com/Pranesh-2005/github-readme-stats-fast
It is built on top of github-readme-stats with extra caching

[shurkanTwo]

If your card URL includes include_all_commits=true, try changing it to include_all_commits=false (or removing that parameter) and opening the resulting image URL directly.

There is a specific reason to try this: in the current upstream code, include_all_commits=true selects a separate REST commit-search request. The other path uses GitHub's contribution data. You can see the branch between the two paths here.

The exact error in your title comes from this check on the search result. It uses !totalCount, so a valid result of zero matching commits also triggers the error. That is one possible explanation, though the post doesn't contain enough information to confirm it for your request.

Turning off include_all_commits is a diagnostic/workaround: it switches to the regular contribution-based count, with a different counting period from the all-time total.

Could you share the full card image URL from your README, including the username and query parameters, and whether you're using the public service or your own deployment? The bare /api link in the post leaves those details out.

[Muguett-DBY]

I reproduced the zero-result case you traced and opened #4939. The fix accepts total_count: 0 and keeps malformed responses as errors; the regression tests pass on Node 22.

It is still an open PR, so this is not available on the hosted instance yet.

[gitcard-hub]

If you want a card that works right now without debugging query paramters, I built GitHubCard as an alternative. You drag and drop the widgets you want, Stats, Top Languages, Streak, Heatmap, and export one card to your profile README. The data stays live, so the total commits and everything else just updates itself.