Web API to get a total commit count of a GitHub repository. Link
http://secure-tundra-40881.herokuapp.com/count?user=[username]&repo=[repository]
e.g.:
$ curl "http://secure-tundra-40881.herokuapp.com/count?user=vim&repo=vim"
9790
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