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know-your-stargazers
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Know more about who starred your repository 🕵️
When developing an open source project, sometimes you are curious to know who starred your project. know-your-stargazers
is a simple CLI program that will help you to know who are interested to your project.
Just simply run:
npx know-your-stargazers
know-your-stargazers
uses GitHub API to crawl your stargazers (i.e: who starred your project). The default GitHub API rate limit is 60 requests per hour. By providing a personal access token, you can increase the rate limit to 5000 requests per hour.
know-your-stargazers
prefills the default values of owner
, repo
and token
by looking for the following environment variables: GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
, GITHUB_OWNER
and GITHUB_REPO
. You can set these environment variables in your .env
file as well.
// .env
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=ghp_something
GITHUB_OWNER=username-or-organization
GITHUB_REPO=repo-name
know-your-stargazers
on a browserFAQs
Know who starred your repository!
We found that know-your-stargazers demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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