GitHub Stars Fetcher

A simple command-line utility that fetches and displays star counts for GitHub repositories.

Features

• Accepts a list of GitHub repositories from stdin
• Fetches star counts for each repository using the GitHub API
• Displays results in a formatted table, sorted by star count (descending)
• Handles API rate limits with appropriate delays

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/tmartinfr/github-stars-fetcher
cd github-stars-fetcher

# Install the project
cargo install --path .

Usage

# Basic usage with pipe
echo "rust-lang/rust
microsoft/vscode
facebook/react" >repository_list.txt

./github-stars-fetcher <repository_list.txt

Example Output

+-------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| Repository        | Stars  | URL                                  |
+-------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+
| rust-lang/rust    | 85421  | https://github.com/rust-lang/rust    |
| facebook/react    | 207632 | https://github.com/facebook/react    |
| microsoft/vscode  | 147023 | https://github.com/microsoft/vscode  |
+-------------------+--------+--------------------------------------+

Configuration

To avoid GitHub API rate limits, you can use a GitHub personal access token.

Set the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=your_github_token

Using a GitHub token is optional but recommended to avoid rate limiting on frequent API calls.

Dependencies

• prettytable-rs: For formatted table output
• reqwest: For HTTP requests
• serde: For JSON deserialization
• tokio: For async runtime

License

MIT

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.