Get your recently starred repos from the GitHub GraphQL API

README.md

Get starred repos from GitHub

The GQL query in this gist will return details for repos which have been starred by the authenticating user.

Run

1. Go to the GH GQL explorer and sign in.
   • https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/
2. Copy the .gql query and paste it in.
3. Press the run button.

If you want to get more than the last 100 repos, you'll need to use paging. I have a Python project MichaelCurrin/github-graphql-tool which handles that and generates a CSV of all the results. This query could be used there.

Extend

It doesn't seem possible to remove archived or private repos from the search like when getting repos owned by a user. However one can still filter the data using the fields in the results.

Or find starred repos of a given user. Replace viewer with user (login: "MichaelCurrin").

Learn more

Read more about GH GQL queries here, with steps and links to resources

https://gist.github.com/MichaelCurrin/6777b91e6374cdb5662b64b8249070ea

sample_output.json

{
  "data": {
    "viewer": {
      "starredRepositories": {
        "nodes": [
          {
            "nameWithOwner": "phil-opp/talk-konstanz-may-2018",
            "name": "talk-konstanz-may-2018",
            "owner": {
              "login": "phil-opp"
            },
            "description": null,
            "updatedAt": "2020-08-25T13:42:35Z",
            "createdAt": "2018-05-06T09:48:51Z",
            "stargazers": {
              "totalCount": 3
            },
            "forkCount": 0,
            "primaryLanguage": {
              "name": "HTML"
            },
            "languages": {
              "nodes": [
                {
                  "name": "HTML"
                }
              ]
            },
            "isArchived": false,
            "isPrivate": false
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

starred_repos.gql

{
  viewer {
    starredRepositories (first: 100, orderBy: {field: STARRED_AT, direction: DESC}) {
      nodes {
        # Summary
        nameWithOwner
        name
        owner {
          login
        }
        description
        #
        # Dates
        updatedAt
        createdAt
        #
        # Counts
        stargazers {
          totalCount
        }
        forkCount
        #
        # Languages used
        primaryLanguage {
          name
        }
        languages (first: 100) {
          nodes {
            name
          }
        }
        #
        # State
        isArchived
        isPrivate
      }
    }
  }
}