Deleted Stars

[shivin9]

Hi,

Thanks for creating StarTrack-js. I wanted to ask whether you track removed stars also as the star curve is always increasing.

Thanks,
Shivin

[seladb]

that's a very good point! unfortunately GitHub API does not provide any information on deleted stars. It only gives you the current stars on a certain repo and the date they were given.

Here is GitHub's starring API as a reference: https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/starring/

There is no way to track deleted stars without a backend polling this data continuously and comparing with the previous data. The problem with having such a backend (except for the efforts to build and maintain it) is that it'd required to poll GitHub API at scale which might cause an issue with GitHub's rate limiting

[shivin9]

Thanks for the information!