6 points | by punkpeye 5 hours ago ago
5 comments
Discussions:
GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data (13 points, 9 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808280
Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? (57 points, 7 days ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821803
This did not get enough attention.
Does anyone know what was the precise date when this change was rolled out?
I wonder how much of their recent downtime can be attributed to the scrapers and other "automated" traffic they'd be getting these days
This data was available via API endpoints, not something that needed scraping.
Stars were abused for spam, that's why it has been made private for the project owner eyes only.
You can make a GitHub app and access a user's stars with their permission. It's not gatekeeping, you have to do more to be secure about it though.
Discussions:
GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data (13 points, 9 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808280
Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall? (57 points, 7 days ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821803
This did not get enough attention.
Does anyone know what was the precise date when this change was rolled out?
I wonder how much of their recent downtime can be attributed to the scrapers and other "automated" traffic they'd be getting these days
This data was available via API endpoints, not something that needed scraping.
Stars were abused for spam, that's why it has been made private for the project owner eyes only.
You can make a GitHub app and access a user's stars with their permission. It's not gatekeeping, you have to do more to be secure about it though.