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Developers · Updated 15 Oct, 12:41 am IST

GitHub launches repo star history API returning counts, not identities

Why it matters for readers: You can see how a project's star count changed over weeks without revealing who starred it.

  • The new endpoint returns up to 30 weeks of daily star counts in a single request, with no identities attached.1
  • GitHub moved to counts because exposing stargazer records enabled scraping for spam and phishing and imposed high database load for popular repos.1
  • To keep queries cheap to serve, the API reduces database processing by filtering stars by time before counting rather than just returning less data.1
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