GitHub Stars Tracker

Live GitHub repo metrics on your Stream Deck — stars, forks, issues, and milestones that actually flash.

7 actions, zero setup for public repos. Type "owner/repo" in the Property Inspector and every key lights up. Need private repos or higher rate limits? Drop in a personal access token once — it's shared across every action.

What's included:

• Star Count — live count with +N delta since midnight • Fork Count — your repo's reach • Open Issues — amber alert when it climbs past your threshold • Stars Today — gained since local midnight, to-the-minute • Stars This Week — rolling 7-day trend • Milestone Tracker — live progress to your next round number (100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k, 10k…) with a gold flash the moment you cross it • Repo Overview — cycle up to 4 repos on a single key

Features:

• Two display styles for numeric keys: Minimal (with optional progress bar) and 7-day Sparkline • Dark and Light themes — mix per key • Signature gold flash animation when your repo hits its next milestone • Auto-advancing milestone ladder (100 → 200 → 500 → 1k → 2k → 5k → 10k → 25k → …) — never re-configure • Public repos work with no token · optional PAT for private repos or beyond the 60 req/hr anon limit • Built-in mock mode — paste a token starting with "mock" for fixtures (great for screenshots) • Single token shared across all 7 actions via global settings — paste once, everywhere works • Smart caching so 7 actions watching the same repo make 1 network call per cycle

Setup (under 30 seconds for public repos):

Drop any action onto a key

Type "vercel/next.js" (or any owner/repo) in the Property Inspector

Press Validate, done

Optional token for private repos: github.com → Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens → Generate new token (classic or fine-grained). Paste once in any action's Property Inspector.

v1.2 — New settings panel. Every key now previews itself in the Property Inspector ("Your key") with an Open on GitHub button, getting a token is a short numbered guide, sort order, display style and theme are buttons, and each action shows only the fields it uses. The repo suggestions (your own and starred repos) now refresh when you change the token. Fixed: the token setup link now opens, the panel is fully in English, and Star Count's Sparkline style stays available. Your existing keys keep their settings.

In July 2026 GitHub made the list of who starred a repo visible only to its admins and collaborators. This update adapts the plugin.

• Stars Today and Stars This Week work again without a token. They now read GitHub's star history in one request. Stars Today follows GitHub's day (UTC), not your local midnight.

• Fixed: Stars Today and Stars This Week could read 0 on repos with more than 100 stars.

• Repo Overview's "weekly growth" sort works again.

• Latest Star now needs a personal access token from an account that is an admin or collaborator on the repo. Without a token the key says "Add token"; on a repo you can't administer it says "No access" (it used to say "Auth" or show nothing).

• Fixed: Latest Star could show the repo's first stargazer instead of the newest.

• Listing corrected: Latest Star is the one action that needs a token on public repos.

• Requires Stream Deck 7.1 or later.