🧩 Also available as chrome extension

Star History

https://star-history.com the missing GitHub star history graph of GitHub repos.

Sponsor

Bytebase.com is an open source, web-based database schema change and version control tool for teams.

As a website

Support comparing multiple repos

As an extension

Note: You can load the ./extension folder to chrome to install the extension too.

Access Token

star-history.com uses GitHub API to retrieve repository metadata. When user exceed the rate limit of unauthenticated requests. Star history will need your personal access token to unlimit it.

If you don't already have one, create one, and add to star-history (no scope to your personal data is needed)

Develop

Website

npm run startWebsite

Extension

npm run buildExtension
# load the extension folder as unpacked extension into chrome to view it

Build and Deploy

Website

# deploy to star-history.com
npm run deployWebsite

Extension

npm run buildExtension
# zip extension folder and publish to chrome web store

Updates

• 2019-8-28: use chart.xkcd to plot the graph

• 2019-3-06: Add personal access token; update style; mono repo

• 2016-6-30: Alert to notie

• 2016-6-28: Add clear btn

• 2016-6-28: Better view for "many star" repos (use current star number as the last point on the graph)

• 2016-6-26: Store repo info into url hash

• 2016-6-26: multiple kinds of input styles (eg: github.com/bytebase/star-history, ...)

• 2016-6-26: Better view for less star repos #28

• 2016-6-14: Toggle search by hit enter #26, prevent crash while searching for not existing repo

• 2016-5-26: Update mobile view