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Get GitHub star count using API v4 instead of v3 #221

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philwareham opened this issue Apr 24, 2019 · 0 comments
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Get GitHub star count using API v4 instead of v3 #221

philwareham opened this issue Apr 24, 2019 · 0 comments
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The GitHub API v4 (GraphQL) is much more efficient than the API v3 (RESTful), as it just returns the specific data rather than a large file with all repo data.

Moving to that would require (safe) storage of the OAuth authentication key as you cannot do anonymous calls to API v4 (unlike v3).

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