Private data not included AFTER Vercel

[fershibli]

Problem description

My GitHub Stats doesn't reflect my private contributions, even though I followed the steps from the README.md

Why am I opening this recurring question

I looked over many other Q&As and they were just missing the Vercel step or PAT_1 step, but I did everything that the docs said and I didn't find any Q&A that did everything and yet got this problem

Replication steps

1. I've deployed on my own Vercel, by clicking in the deploy button present on the README.md, instead of creating it by scratch:

2. I created a PAT where I enabled the repo and user permissions:

3. Then I used this PAT as a environment variable called PAT_1, just as the docs say:

4. I tried using my own vercel domain on the api call, but the result was the same as I was getting using github-readme-stats.vercel.app:

https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=fershibli&hide=contributions&show=reviews,prs_merged&show_icons=true&count_private=true&include_all_commits=true&theme=neon

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For comparison here's my current contributions stats from GitHub itself:

[fershibli]

Problem solved

I remembered that AI existed (duh) and asked DeepSeek about this, it pointed out that I should change the query to use &count_private=true&private_contributions=true instead of just &count_private=true.
And I should keep using my on Vercel domain instead of github-readme-stats.vercel.app.

So I'm sharing this solution if anyone needs this instruction.

Why I'm not closing this discussion with this comment

I think the README.md should be updated to tell the user to include these flags

[lemorage]

I have a similar question about this. I had many contributions in some private repos in a org, will all the data be lost after I leave this org?

[fershibli]

I have a similar question about this. I had many contributions in some private repos in a org, will all the data be lost after I leave this org?

Well, it's not thaat similar, but I looked it up out of curiosity anyways. Apparently, starring the repository before leaving the org is important, but I'm not sure if this alone will work for private repositories.

If your commits were made using the company's e-mail instead of your primary e-mail, there's a whole tutorial to follow before leaving the org. If this is your case, please take a look at this post, where I found all this information:
https://dev.to/bhatvikrant/dont-lose-your-github-contributions-when-you-leave-an-organization-10pf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Also, make sure that "Include private contributions on my profile" is enabled in your settings:
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/showing-your-private-contributions-and-achievements-on-your-profile

[lemorage]

That's quite helpful, thanks!

[qwerty541]

Hello guys

Let me just clarify that we do NOT provide the following query parameters &count_private=true&private_contributions=true, it does not affect anything so you can completely remove it. The thing was using your own Vercel domain.