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Starring
The Starring API lets you bookmark a repository.
About the Starring API
The Starring API lets you bookmark a repository. Stars are shown next to repositories to show an approximate level of interest. Stars have no effect on notifications or the activity feed. For more information, see "Saving repositories with stars."
Starring vs. Watching
In August 2012, we changed the way watching works on GitHub. Many API client applications may be using the original "watcher" endpoints for accessing this data. You can now start using the "star" endpoints instead (described below). For more information, see the Watcher API Change post and the "Repository Watching API."
Custom media types for starring
There is one supported custom media type for the Starring REST API. When you use this custom media type, you will receive a response with the starred_at timestamp property that indicates the time the star was created. The response also has a second property that includes the resource that is returned when the custom media type is not included. The property that contains the resource will be either user or repo.
application/vnd.github.star+json
For more information about media types, see "Custom media types."
List stargazers
Lists the people that have starred the repository.
You can also find out when stars were created by passing the following custom media type via the Accept header: application/vnd.github.star+json.
Parameters
| Headers |
|---|
| Name, Type, Description |
acceptstringSetting to |
| Path parameters |
| Name, Type, Description |
ownerstringRequiredThe account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive. |
repostringRequiredThe name of the repository. The name is not case sensitive. |
| Query parameters |
| Name, Type, Description |
per_pageinteger |