GitHub API - stars, get the date then star is created

Question

The GitHub API provides functionality to get stared items sorted by created date. But, I can't find a possibility to get this date.

Only three date-type fields are present in the response:

created_at: '2013-06-13T21:10:36Z',
updated_at: '2013-06-18T07:45:56Z',
pushed_at: '2013-06-17T16:52:44Z',

create_at here is always that date the repository created, not star. updated_at does not give the right information either.

On the GitHub site, if you check your stars, data is sorted properly and the correct time span is rendered. But it looks like the API misses that information.

That gist clearly show, that data returned "sorted", but created_at is wrong.

Answer 1

This can be done in the GitHub API v3 by adding the header:

Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.star+json

see here:

https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/starring/#alternative-response-with-star-creation-timestamps-1

https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/starring/#alternative-response-with-star-creation-timestamps

Answer 2

There is absolutely no way to get this information from the API. Your best chance of getting it is going through events either on the repository or each user that has starred the repository and that could take tons of parsing because the events could be in the thousands. The number of API calls to do so would be immense.