If you have starred way too many GitHub repositories and need a way of keeping track of them. This simple CLI tool throws you quasi random starred repos at you to look at and explore.

Install with Pipx.

$ pipx install github-random-star

Install from PyPi/GitHub with pip or clone this repository and install with pip/pipx locally.

1. Setup GitHub API token as the GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable. If this is not setup it will use the public access point with lower rates.
2. Run the script through $ gh-star <flags>, $ python github_random_star/main.py <flags> or if using Poetry $ poetry run gh-star <flags>

• -a, --account Username of the GitHub account to retrieve the starred items from. --account is required or GH_STAR_ACCOUNT environment variable needs to be set.
• -t, --total Total amount of random items you want to pick from. Defaults to 3.
• -r, --refresh Whether to fetch new cached data or not. Will re fetch all starred items instead of using cache.
• --max-history The amount of historic choices to cache. Defaults to 100. Set to -1 to keep history unlimited. GH_STAR_MAX_HISTORY environment variable can be used to override this value.
• -i, --ignore If to use a list of repositories to ignore. Defaults to true.
• --max_results The amount of starred items to retrieve from GitHub. Defaults to all.
• -h --help Show this help message inside the terminal.

• $ gh-star -a ddkasa
• $ gh-star -a ddkasa -t 5
• $ gh-star -a ddkasa -r -t 5

Development is run through Poetry.

1. $ git clone https://github.com/ddkasa/github-random-star
2. $ cd github-random-star
3. $ poetry shell
4. $ poetry install

• Use $ pytest for all tests.
• Use $ pytest -m unit for unit tests.
• Use $ pytest -m integration for integration tests.

MIT. Look at the LICENSE for details.