GitHub replaces stargazer scraping with privacy-safe history API

GitHub said it has replaced a stargazer-based workaround with a purpose-built history endpoint that returns aggregate star trends without exposing individual identities. The change matters because maintainers use star history to gauge whether a release, launch or event changed a project’s trajectory, while GitHub said the older approach was being abused for data collection and was also expensive to serve. In an Oct. 14, 2026 engineering post, GitHub said the new repository star history API can return up to 30 weeks of daily star counts in a single request, with no identities attached.

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