orgstars

A simple command-line tool to query GitHub's API and sum up all the stars across all repositories in an organization.

Installation

cargo install orgstars

Usage

Query stars for any GitHub organization:

orgstars --org rust-lang

With Authentication

To avoid GitHub API rate limits, you can provide a personal access token:

orgstars --org rust-lang --token YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN

Example Output

Fetching repositories for organization: rust-lang

Results for organization: rust-lang
Total repositories: 232
Total stars: 372526

Repository breakdown:
  rust - 108154 stars
  rustlings - 60798 stars
  mdBook - 20700 stars
  book - 16968 stars
  ...

Features

• Fetches all repositories from a GitHub organization using pagination
• Displays total star count across all repositories
• Shows a sorted breakdown of stars per repository
• Supports authentication via GitHub personal access tokens
• Handles rate limiting gracefully

Options

Options:
  -o, --org <ORG>        GitHub organization name
  -t, --token <TOKEN>    GitHub personal access token (optional)
  -h, --help             Print help

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.