title: usage counter/clone counter of open source code
body: <p>I wrote some python code that's being used fairly often (from the number of clones on github recently). However, I'd like some way of keeping a permanent count (github is a rolling 14 day window) of the number of times the code has been run and the number of unique users using the code.</p>
  <p>I thought about having the code ping a website (Github Pages is static so it won't work - AWS specifically for this?) and a specific subdirectory every time it's used, but <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/316866">this seems to be more complex than I thought (system specific, maybe root needed)</a>. Ideally, I would want to abstract away any user info (MAC/IP) and just keep the counter (to respect user privacy).</p>
  <p>Is there any way of doing this?</p>