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

---

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