GitHub Star History Graph

#1

Post by bokenator » Sat, May 28, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

GitHub Star History Graph
star-history.com

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#2

Post by woodruffw » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:15 PM UTC

Very cool. I had no idea GitHub's API kept history statistics for stars!

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#3

Post by dabeeeenster » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:20 PM UTC

I wish Github were more permissive with traffic-related data to your Github pages. I'm not expecting GA tags, but being able to see > 14 days of page view history would be a good start.

Anyone know of any other solutions around this sort of thing?

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#4

Post by amrrs » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

Tutorial on building it with Python https://youtu.be/TzF-OUA1Tlo

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#5

Post by matsemann » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:26 PM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #3

I wish Github were more permissive with traffic-related data to your Github pages. I'm not expecting GA tags, but being able to see > 14 days of page view history would be a good start. Anyone know of any other solutions around this sort of thing?

Yeah, I don't want to include trackers because of privacy. But it would be nice to see which pages are accessed, and from where the visitors are coming. I don't need more than that, and that can be gathered from the access logs.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by dabeeeenster » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:36 PM UTC

woodruffw wrote: post #2

Very cool. I had no idea GitHub's API kept history statistics for stars!

I don't think it does...

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#7

Post by viraptor » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:37 PM UTC

Slightly related, but... what is it with stars? I've never starred a repo and don't understand why I would want to. Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason, even though it correlates strongly with forks/issues/prs so you get the same idea about usage from those. Does it go at all beyond a "like", or am I just too old to get it?

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by frou_dh » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:38 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #7

Slightly related, but... what is it with stars? I've never starred a repo and don't understand why I would want to. Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason, even though it correlates strongly with forks/issues/prs so you get the same idea about usage from those. Does it go at all beyond a "like", or am I just too old to get it?

It's a 2-in-1 like & bookmark.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#9

Post by asaddhamani » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:39 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #7

Slightly related, but... what is it with stars? I've never starred a repo and don't understand why I would want to. Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason, even though it correlates strongly with forks/issues/prs so you get the same idea about usage from those. Does it go at all beyond a "like", or am I just too old to get it?

I think of it as a "like" or a bookmark, if I come across a repo and I find it interesting or useful, I star it.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

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Post by woodruffw » Sat, May 28, 2022, 6:45 PM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #6

woodruffw wrote: post #2

Very cool. I had no idea GitHub's API kept history statistics for stars!

I don't think it does...

It looks like they're using the `starred_at` timestamp, which is indeed provided by GitHub's stars API[1].

Edit: the code in question[2].

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring#custom-med...

[2]: https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/blob/c8c66678db8015...