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flaviut
flaviut

Reputation: 2143

Getting github stargazer count

I've been using the GET /repos/:owner/:repo/stargazers endpoint, but I've noticed that it only provides 30 stargazers, which isn't enough for my purposes now. I've switched to the search API, GET /search/repositories?q=:repo (items[0].stargazers_count), but what if someone creates 20 repos with the same name? I'd have to make more than one request. Is there a better way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3762

Answers (2)

Ian Stapleton Cordasco
Ian Stapleton Cordasco

Reputation: 28805

The /repos/:owner/:repo/stargazers endpoint is paginated. You can get all of the stargazers from that endpoint quickly and easily. For example, if you were to use github3.py it would be 3 lines:

import github3

repo = github3.repository(':owner', ':repo')
stargazers = list(repo.stargazers())

This however cannot be done in a single request (which is why it's paginated).

Using the search API is probably the cheapest, but your concern about a single person having 20 repositories with the same name is not sensible. A single user can only have one repository with a specific name. That, however, shouldn't be considered a guarantee that there won't be more than one result so you should probably use a different query string, e.g.,

import github3

github3.search_repositories('repo:owner/repo_name')

Which should translate roughly to

GET /search/repositories?q=repo%3Aowner%2Frepo_name

Upvotes: 5

Tinmarino
Tinmarino

Reputation: 4051

As 2020 from PyGithub

pip3 install PyGithub

from github import Github
g = Github()
repo = g.get_repo("PyGithub/PyGithub")
repo.stargazers_count

Upvotes: 2

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