Stargaze

Watch a GitHub repo's star count, with change notifications on your desktop via node-notifier.

Command-Line Usage

Install globally for command-line usage:

npm install -g stargaze

$ stargaze -h
Usage: stargaze [options] github_repo

Options:
  -d, --delay   Delay between requests (s < 1000 or ms >= 1000) [default: 60]
  -u, --user    GitHub username
  -p, --pass    GitHub password
  -q, --quiet   Suppress all non-error output
  -v, --verbose Verbose output (shows rate limit info)
  -h, --help    Show this help

Unauthenticated requests have a very low rate limit

$ stargaze -v facebook/react
[2015-04-10T10:29:37.249Z] Requesting stars for facebook/react
[2015-04-10T10:29:37.736Z] 20019
[2015-04-10T10:29:37.738Z] x-ratelimit-limit: 60
[2015-04-10T10:29:37.741Z] x-ratelimit-remaining: 54
[2015-04-10T10:29:37.744Z] x-ratelimit-reset: 1428664607

API Usage

Using the stargaze API allows you to pass a callback which gets called every time the number of stars changes.

npm install stargaze

var stargaze = require('stargaze')

stargaze('facebook/react', {verbose: true}, function(stars) {
  if (stars % 1000 === 0) {
    tweet('OMG Base 10! ' + stars)
  }
})

stargaze(repo[, options][, callback])

repo - a GitHub repo in <owner>/<repo> format.

options - an optional Object specifying additional options (see below)

callback - an optional callback function which will be called with the current number of stars every time it changes.

The callback will not be called for the initial request.

Options

auth - an Object with user and pass properties, specifying GitHub credentials to authenticate requests.

timeout - delay between requests to GitHub, in milliseconds; default: 60000.

quiet - if truthy, suppresses non-error console output.

verbose - if truthy, displays rate limit data in console output.

MIT Licensed