Introducing a Handy Tool for GitHub Stars: GitHub Stars Utils

Put your GitHub Starred repositories to work with our simple utilities

Hey there, fellow developers! ??

We recently put together a small utility that we’ve been using internally to manage and publish to our development teams' useful open-source libraries hosted on GitHub. We thought it might also be helpful to others.

The Challenge: GitHub introduced the concept of lists, which would have been perfect for our needs, but without API support, we devised this workaround.

Our Solution: We’ve utilised the GitHub Stars feature, adding a layer of additional metadata through a CSV file. This allows us to generate Markdown documents, which we then integrate into our internal Wiki for easy access and reference.

GitHub Stars Utils offers two main functionalities:

• Starred Repositories Exporter: Export your GitHub stars into a CSV file for convenient backup or analysis, sorted by the most recent updates.
• Markdown Generator: Process the CSV to create individual Markdown files based on unique values in the ‘lists’ column, which is ideal for curating and maintaining repository lists.

It’s just a quick utility, but we’ve found it helpful for our needs. If you think it might be helpful for you, too, feel free to check it out and let us know what you think!

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