GitHub Stars Sync

The GitHub stars sync imports starred repositories as links on a weekly cron. A star is a weak signal — it means “I want to find this again” — and the sync turns that weak signal into a catalogue entry that can be tagged, trailed, and eventually published or retired.

The job is narrow on purpose. It pulls stars, de-duplicates against the existing catalogue, and files the new ones into the pending queue with a source of github-stars. From there they go through the same cataloguing path as any other link.

Why a weekly cadence

Stars accumulate slowly enough that a weekly sync is plenty, and the gap gives time to un-star things that were starred by accident before they become catalogue entries.