Github Stars

See the number of stars earned by a github repository while hovering over its link.

What is Github Stars?

Github Stars is a Chrome extension that allows you to view the stars earned by a Github repo as well as its languages by hovering over its link on a webpage. It also supports prefetching for instant star viewing.

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By: SuPythony

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Users: 43 ▲ 1

Rating: 4.00 (2)

Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2023-04-24)

Creation date: 2022-02-03

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Size: 19.74K

Email: su*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 90230 ▲ 113

Other rankings

#9529 in Developer Tools ▼ 14 #144 in github keyword 35 ▲ 12

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Extension summary

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Github Stars is an extension that allows you to view the stars earned by a Github repo as well as its languages by hovering over its link on a webpage, without needing to navigate to it. You can also enable prefetching, which allows you to view the stars instantly after hovering over the link.

It's open source and the repository and further details can be found here - https://github.com/SuPythony/Github-Stars-Extension

User reviews

It works … but is a little annoying on large lists of repositories because it doesn't seem to prefetch, so I have to move mouse over link once to trigger fetching stars, then move mouse away and back on it to update the tooltip.