use python script for updates

.github/get_stats.py

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+from enum import Enum
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
+
+file_name = Path('_data/general/stats.yml')
+
+class ReturnMode(Enum):
+  data = 0
+  header = 1
+
+def get_data(url, key=None, default=0, mode: ReturnMode=ReturnMode.data):
+  """Fetches data from remote endpoint"""
+  httprequest = Request(url, headers={"Accept": "application/json"})
+
+  with urlopen(httprequest) as response:
+    if mode == ReturnMode.data:
+      data = response.read().decode()
+      data = json.loads(data)
+    
+    elif mode == ReturnMode.header:
+      data = dict(response.headers.items())
+
+  if key:
+    data = data.get(key, default)
+
+  return data
+
+docker = get_data('https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/inventree/inventree', 'pull_count')
+gh_data = get_data('https://api.github.com/repos/inventree/inventree')
+stars = gh_data.get('stargazers_count', 0)
+forks = gh_data.get('forks_count', 0)
+# See https://stackoverflow.com/a/60458265/17860466 # to enabble anon add `&anon=true`
+link = get_data('https://api.github.com/repos/inventree/inventree/contributors?per_page=1', mode=ReturnMode.header).get('Link')
+contributors = link.split('page=')[-1].split('>')[0]
+
+# Write data
+file_name.write_text(
+f"""stats:
+  - name: Docker pulls
+    number: {docker}
+  - name: GitHub Stars
+    number: {stars}
+  - name: Forks
+    number: {forks}
+  - name: Contributors
+    number: {contributors}""")