GitHub Star Checker

Check when a particular user starred a repository on GitHub.

How it works

This web tool finds when a user starred a repository by querying the GitHub API. To minimise the number of API calls incurred, it first compares the user's total starred repositories against the repo's total stargazers, then queries whichever list is smaller (thanks to this Stack Overflow answer). It then merges the results from the "stargazers for a repo" and "starred repos for a user" endpoints to find the exact timestamp when the user starred the repository.

Tip!

You may use URL query parameters to pre-fill the inputs. For example: ?username=octocat&repo=hello-world