How to check a repository's star count
Paste the repository link, like github.com/vercel/next.js, or type owner/name. Searching by name works too. You get the exact number of stars, which GitHub itself rounds to something like 142k on the repository page.
Star history
GitHub does not publish a star history, so we build our own: every repository opened here gets one star count per day, and the repositories in the list above are checked every 6 hours. The chart grows from the first day a repository was looked up here.
Follower counts
Switch the search to People to look up an account. Followers come from GitHub's API and are updated every 6 hours. When GitHub's API is busy and we have no count for an account yet, we show the rounded number from its profile page for a while, and say so on the page.
How fresh the numbers are
A repository page asks GitHub every 5 minutes while it is open. If our server cannot reach GitHub, your browser asks GitHub directly instead, which GitHub allows 60 times an hour per visitor.
Show the count on your site
Open Put this count on your site or stream on a repository page for an embed code and an OBS link. It updates by itself and never shows ads. GitHub READMEs do not allow embeds like this, so link to the repository's page here instead.
