Could you add a license to the project?
I bought your browser extension to support you and your project but just noticed that this isn't free software, which makes me somewhat uncomfortable.

At this url the color of the WordPress line on the graph does not match the color of the WordPress line on the stats popup.

It would be nice to be able to compare projects in the sense how the number of stars have grown since it got launched.
If there is a project from 2015 and one from 2018 one might be interested if one is growing faster which is hard to see atm. Therefore a possibility of changing the x axis to months since launch would be nice. + zoom functionality like #50 to focus on the first x months.

Thanks for the project.

• prevent 'crash' for invalid input
• multiple kinds of input styles(eg: github.com/timqian/star-history, ...)
• use url hash to 'remember' searches

When I insert fpg1503/MakeXcodeGr8Again it shows a star count of -30 for 06/23/2016. I don't think that makes much sense.

Hey, could we embed the diagram of http://www.timqian.com/star-history/#coala-analyzer/coala into our website somehow easily?

CC @tushar-rishav and @mr-karan who are working on our website. CC @underyx who found this tool.

To reproduce:

1. Open Firefox 69.0.3 (latest)
2. Navigate to https://star-history.t9t.io/#timqian/star-history
3. Observe the following chart:

Console says Unexpected value NaN parsing cx attribute.

The same page renders well in the latest Chrome.

It would be very helpful if it supports autocomplete for repository names.

not sure if artistically intentional or if it's a bug

https://star-history.t9t.io/#ekalinin/nodeenv&pre-commit/pre-commit

# firefox on ubuntu 18.04
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 

A chrome extension version of this project is better, I may do it if I find time.

Today I got an email containing the following (and information that shows it was sent because of a star-history and my token I have it linked with):

Hi @TheThirdOne,

Your personal access token was used as part of a query parameter to access an endpoint through the GitHub API

Please use the Authorization HTTP header instead, as using the access_token query parameter is deprecated.

Depending on your API usage, we'll be sending you this email reminder once every 3 days for each token and User-Agent used in API calls made on your behalf.
Just one URL that was accessed with a token and User-Agent combination will be listed in the email reminder, not all.

Visit https://developer.github.com/changes/2019-11-05-deprecated-passwords-and-authorizations-api/#authenticating-using-query-parameters for more information.

Thanks,
The GitHub Team

It seems like this should be an easy fix; the affected lines seem to be: https://github.com/timqian/star-history/blob/7d1bbd8c950a70e97f598b981b13c1d6d5e92885/core/getStarHistory.js#L16-L23

I have a bookmarked chart that shows many repos. When viewing this it is useful to be able to toggle some repos so that the chart resizes to show the remaining ones more clearly, but this is not possible since the latest change.

Would it be easy to let us zoom in on a part of the chart or at least provide a date so that we see the data only from that day onwards?

The graph can show only the history of the current star givers.
It cannot show stars that where revoked later.

So lets face this situation:

1. someone creates a nice piece of software, many people like it and the project gets many stars.
2. suddenly something turns bad/evil with the projects (e.g it comes to public it contained virus or the last releases where rubbish and previous users move somewhere else) and now many people revoke their star from the project.

Now the star-history graph still would show an increasing interest, because the graph is calculated only from current star givers.

To resolve this it would be required to constantly monitor the stars (write to a database for instance weekly) of every project that you want to see in the graph, so you can detect when stars are taken away too.

In many places GitHub displays repos with spaces like so: timqian / star-history. Whenever I copy/paste the repo name into the Star history app I have manually delete the spaces. It's a small annoyance but should be easy to fix?

Maybe you can build a website to show the history of the growth of GitHub followers.

Could you add an option for logarithmic display? This would help compare trends between repositories with vastly different stars.

Would be nice to have a safari extension too :)

Hi,

First at all, thanks for this tool.
An idea for an other tool, displays stars in a wordmap when information is available.

BR
Arnaud

We should use Travis CI or CircleCI...?

• Linter
• Unit test
• Deploy to production once merged into master

Hey. The graphs on the hosted version appear to look slightly different with the new UI. It seems to flat line at the top. Not really an issue but just wanted to highlight that.

Could we show a plot of the difference between each pair of points? Mathematically speaking, I'm asking for an approximate derivative:

delta = (star1, star2) => ({
  count: star1.count - star2.count,
  time: star1.time,
})

What would you think?

The new chart is hard to read, especially when the lines are close together.

edit: this alternative works better https://seladb.github.io/StarTrack-js/

This one
https://stars.medv.io/timqian/star-history

From https://stars.medv.io 🙃

Hey @timqian, a very useful repo!

I've struggled with one thing a few times and it seems to me that the issue may be topical to other people too. When you mistype a name of a repo and Github API returns 404, the app crashes. Seeing an alert means that you now have to reload the whole page and start pasting the names of the repos you want to compare from scratch. This is a bit time-consuming.

A need to carefully pick a part of the github url seems to be a bit redundant too. Could the app understand timqian/star-history, https://github.com/timqian/star-history https://github.com/timqian/star-history/, github.com/timqian/star-history or even [email protected]:timqian/star-history.git equally well? This must be quite easy with regexps.

Could the app be a bit more tolerant to human mistakes? Maybe having a list as proposed in #23 where some rows get a coloured marker and some get crosses will be the best solution from the UX perspective. Here is an example of what I mean:

• facebook/react
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery
× timqian/hello-world
• timqian/star-history

A user just types the names of the repos separated by a newline. The markers automatically appear on the right just like the numbers in a text editor. A cross means that a repo does not exist, and a coloured bullet (or a dash) refers to a line in a chart. This way a textfield serves both as the input and the output and we no longer need a legend since its job has already been done.

What do you think of this idea?

我鼠标移在12.13号，但是高亮的点位置不对；
还有如果一段时间star数没有变化的话，应该是一条水平线吧，而不是什么都没有

Hi.
Have there any plan for fork-history?

Is it possible to add a URL param to search that repo, without needing to enter it into the form and submit it?

Such as http://www.timqian.com/star-history/?repo=sass/sass ?

Thanks for this great website! I was just wondering, would it be simple to add an "export to CSV" button to the website, to have the data in the graph downloaded as a CSV file? Would be great for presentations and further visualizations etc.

http://www.timqian.com/star-history/#torvalds/linux&torvalds/linux&torvalds/linux

should be filtered before adding them to the graph and legend.

Steps to reproduce:

• Added a few repositories to view star history of (e.g. Ensighten/grunt-spritesmith, Ensighten/spritesmith, twolfson/gulp.spritesmith)
• Cleared graph data via "Clear" button
• Moved mouse over former graph area

Expected behavior: No tooltip should appear

Actual behavior: Tooltip for past graph data appeared

Screenshot:

maybe separated by space as simplest solution. And then split by space and loop?

Previously a tooltip would show the values for all repos at a point in time that the mouse hovered over. The new version only shows a single language, making comparison impossible.

Hi @timqian ,

Thanks for this excellent service.
I would like to know what type of license is provided for this service?
Can I integrate this service in my open source project SwiftHub?

Thanks again!

Firefox latest version.

• Clear button(clear results and remove hash)
• use current star number as the last point on the graph

Your API access has been rate limited

• I open https://star-history.t9t.io/
• I type any repo name e.g. timqian/star-history
• it shows No such repo

At the moment it always hits the API, it would be good to add caching caching, e.g. when sharing a link it doesn't use a lot of API calls

I suggest caching data via Redis with an expiry time of 1 hour

The charts are only limited to 39960 stars max on the y-axis? Like here. Is that a limitation of the GitHub API or something?

Amazing repository, thank you.

I think it could have been really awesome if it was possible to enter a list (hundreds or thousands even) of repositories and get a sum up of their stars history. I believe it can be useful to discover trends in wider scale.

The chart supports up to 10 colorful lines, every repo after that is getting the color black

I also use another star graphing program:
https://seladb.github.io/StarTrack-js/

One feature I really like is their statistics below the graph. Each graphed project has these stats shown:

I've found that these stats can tell me a little more about the project than the graph alone. The average per day is an excellent one because it shows if a project's rate rate is accelerating.

Not sure if you have access to these stats or you maybe can show even more??

(I purchased the Chrome add-on. It's great! Would be nice to be able to compare via that add-on too or see these stats!)

Hi,

Is there a way to extract the dates that the repos were starred? I would like to use this information to predict stars for a repo? Is there already a capability within this application?

Thanks,
Heather

https://star-history.t9t.io/

This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in star-history.t9t.io.
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It seems we are currently using the first entry of each page as sample. If a repo has been quiet lately, the chart will miss data points to the most recent date and look awkward.

The bug: Error occurs when adding a repo with 0 stars.

To reproduce: Add an arbitrary repo with 0 stars, for example: https://star-history.t9t.io/#ouuan/cpeditor.

The error message:

src.eaeb2d40.js:66 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'status' of undefined
    at l (src.eaeb2d40.js:66)
    at /async https:/star-history.t9t.io/src.eaeb2d40.js:66

Hi,

Here is a screenshot of how the Star History looks like on my computer (Firefox 50 & Ubuntu 14.04): https://s17.postimg.org/pqbm03rkv/Capture_du_2016_12_10_20_48_25.png

I was on this page:
http://www.timqian.com/star-history/#facebook/react&vuejs/vue&angular/angular.js

Hope it can help.

Best,

Antoine.