Suggestion: star lists API

[tiangolo]

I would like to access the lists I create via an API so that I can manage them in GitHub but show them on my personal website too.

[bailey]

Hey Sebastián! We totally hear you, we don't have immediate plans to get this out but it's definitely on our radar for the future. Thanks for dropping feedback and we'll be sure to keep you in the know when we have an update here ✨

[vega626]

I love what I see so far

[astrochun]

I second this. Access to the stars lists and the membership of lists via users/USERNAME/starred is desired. Simply clicking on each starred repo (hundreds) and then adding them to a list is too just too painful.

I wanted to try to build a FastAPI app (hi @tiangolo) that makes it easier to do multi-repo selection to various list with the proper POST message(s) with auth from GitHub OAuth.

[momosam-sk]

I second this. Access to the stars lists and the membership of lists via users/USERNAME/starred is desired. Simply clicking on each starred repo (hundreds) and then adding them to a list is too just too painful.

I wanted to try to build a FastAPI app (hi @tiangolo) that makes it easier to do multi-repo selection to various list with the proper POST message(s) with auth from GitHub OAuth.

.

[skalingclouds]

Is there an update on this?? I have built out over 20 lists with a TON of repos, i assumed there would be an API for this but none still as far as i can tell. This has to be a prioritized feature.

[jorgecortesdev]

I was trying to do the same thing as @tiangolo, to pick some of my repositories for my personal website, then I found the lists and it was sad to find out that there's no way to access that information from the API.

[adigitoleo]

I recently downloaded the user-stars extension for github cli which is very useful. Adding star lists to the API would also allow for someone to write a github cli extension for that as well.

[bailey]

Thanks all! I appreciate the follow-ups. This context is super helpful as we prioritize so please continue to share here and we'll keep you all updated.

[daviddarnes]

I've got this thread subscribed so I can listen out for updates 😊. Even if there was only a readable API to begin with I'd see that as a big plus. Personally not looking to write anything back as I find the UI pretty good, especially the fact that repos automatically star when I add them to a list 👍🏻

[Danyalkasiri]

---

[rdelpret]

I also would really love this. My use case is to curate a list of repos that I can run a script against to get all open PRs.
Currently, the script is something like this but I would LOVE to dynamically pull from a github stars list.

prs () {
export GH_PAGER=cat
gh pr list --repo github.com/myrepo1
gh pr list --repo github.com/myrepo2
gh pr list --repo github.com/myrepo3
}

[Winskie28]

To share my knowledge and work hard to explore my own suggestions

[Jelisacooper4]

Opportunities

[nicolas-grekas]

I would also like to be able to manage lists from the API.

I'm using https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/input-objects#addstarinput right now, but I'd love being able to add the star to a list.

[gavinliu]

I really wish there has an API for " Put Stars to Lists ", it would be very helpful for me to batch manage my historical Stars.

Plz

@bailey

[Dariinkaa]

I would like to access the lists I create via an API so that I can manage them in GitHub but show them on my personal website too.

[huuphongsan]

I want to show Stars Lists on my website.
Currently: https://api.github.com/users/{username}/starred
Could we add something like https://api.github.com/users/{username}/lists ?
Or add list name param to Stars API as well, so we can filter it.

[johnhamelink]

I'm the same. Even just adding an array field for each starred repo with the "star lists" the repo inhabits would allow me to retain the categorisation I've built up.

[maguowei]

use star repos topics tag auto create a awesome-list and update everyday.
https://github.com/maguowei/starred#use-awesome-stars-as-template

the example: https://github.com/maguowei/awesome-stars/blob/master/topics.md

[ddelange]

cool repo, but topics ≠ lists

[1SwiftKey1]

1SwiftKey1

[rafaelsilva81]

100% this should be a thing!

[johnhamelink]

I've been using lists a lot to help categorise things I might want to look at in more detail later. For reference, I currently have 784 stars across 13 lists.

I'd like to be able to backup my lists, and I'd also like to be able to render them on my personal website.

I'm also interested in analysing the stars that aren't yet categorised.

Even just adding an array field to the starred endpoint, with the "star lists" each repo inhabits defined as a field would be enough for me, as my focus is on reading and analysing the lists.

[poordemianromanov]

Ег

[oogxdd]

[DaveParr]

Got tired of waiting, so I used @tiangolo cli tool to start building starpilot

[skalingclouds]

omg. thank you

[DaveParr]

@skalingclouds hope you find this useful :)

[acuna-public]

I don't know why GitHub don't planned to implement this, but as for me solution is using own organizations as repos list and forks in it so I can simply get my repos via my organizations list and organization repos list after that using embedded API methods.

[den-is]

In the meantime, I wrote personal stars scraper https://github.com/den-is/gh-stars-scraper

[blob42]

Pardon me if I am mistaken about your neglect being intentional, but it seems unfathomable to me that, given the resources and experience of Github building extremly complex APIs, you could not implement such a simple API endpoint. It frankly appears to be a deliberate decision to keep the users locked-in to their github account to access such a basic information.

Or I might be reading too much into this and it truly takes 4 years to develop this feature.

[shaedrich]

Yep, they ignore this to the best of their ability.

[evdcush]

Yep, they ignore this to the best of their ability.

To think they spend any energy at all even considering issues like this is not accurate.
There is nothing "intentional" or otherwise active, such as "ignoring", from GH here.

Rather, it seems they only attend to issues or discussions or features related to copilot.

[shaedrich]

wrong topic?

[nhtlongcs]

We have developed an unofficial API that can perform certain tasks, including creating and deleting lists, and adding or removing repositories from lists. The repo can be accessed at the following url: https://github.com/haile01/github-starred-list