🌟 Thanks Stars

Thanks Stars is a command-line companion that stars the GitHub repositories powering your project so you can show appreciation to the maintainers of your dependencies. It draws inspiration from teppeis/thank-you-stars, but reimagines the experience in Rust with first-class support for multiple ecosystems.

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✨ Highlights

• Detects dependencies across popular package managers and build tools.
• Uses your GitHub personal access token to star repositories on your behalf.
• Provides friendly progress output and summarizes what happened at the end of a run.

🧭 Supported Ecosystems

The following ecosystems are currently detected when you run the tool:

Ecosystem	Detection Source	Implementation
Cargo (Rust)	Cargo.toml	src/ecosystems/cargo.rs
Node.js	package.json	src/ecosystems/node.rs
Deno	deno.lock, deno.json, deno.jsonc	src/ecosystems/deno.rs
JSR	jsr.json	src/ecosystems/jsr.rs
Go (Go Modules)	go.mod	src/ecosystems/go.rs
Dart	pubspec.yaml	src/ecosystems/dart.rs
Composer (PHP)	composer.lock / composer.json	src/ecosystems/composer.rs
Ruby (Bundler)	Gemfile / Gemfile.lock	src/ecosystems/ruby.rs
Python	pyproject.toml / requirements.txt / Pipfile / Pipfile.lock / uv.lock	src/ecosystems/python.rs
R (renv)	renv.lock	src/ecosystems/renv.rs
Gradle	gradle.lockfile / build.gradle / build.gradle.kts	src/ecosystems/gradle.rs
Maven	pom.xml	src/ecosystems/maven.rs
Haskell	package.yaml / *.cabal / stack.yaml / cabal.project	src/ecosystems/haskell.rs

Looking for support for a different ecosystem? Open an ecosystem support request and tell us about the manifest and lockfiles we should detect.

🚀 Installation

Choose the installation method that best fits your environment:

🍺 Homebrew

$ brew tap Kenzo-Wada/thanks-stars
$ brew install thanks-stars

🦀 Cargo

$ cargo install thanks-stars

📦 npm

$ npm install -g thanks-stars

💻 Shell installer (macOS/Linux)

$ curl -LSfs https://github.com/Kenzo-Wada/thanks-stars/releases/latest/download/thanks-stars-installer.sh | sh

🪟 PowerShell installer (Windows)

$ iwr https://github.com/Kenzo-Wada/thanks-stars/releases/latest/download/thanks-stars-installer.ps1 -useb | iex

🐧 Linux package managers

Native packages like apt/apt-get, pacman, nix, etc... are not published yet. Until a maintainer volunteers to host those repositories, please use one of the installers above or the manual download method. Contributions toward official Linux packages are very welcome—see CONTRIBUTING.md for coordination details.

📦 Manual download

Grab the archive for your platform from the GitHub Releases page and place the thanks-stars binary somewhere on your PATH.

🛠 Usage

Authenticate once with a GitHub personal access token, then run the tool in the root of your project.

Authenticate with GitHub

$ thanks-stars auth --token ghp_your_token_here

If you omit --token, the command will prompt you to paste it securely. By default the configuration is stored in a user-specific config.toml; you can override the storage location with the THANKS_STARS_CONFIG_DIR environment variable.

Run inside your project

$ cd path/to/your/project
$ thanks-stars

Example output:

$ thanks-stars
⭐ Starred https://github.com/xxx/xxx via Cargo.toml
✅ Already starred https://github.com/xxx/xxx via package.json
...
✨ Completed! ⭐ Starred 10 repositories.

Run thanks-stars --help to explore all available options.

Preview your run with --dry-run

If you want to see which repositories would be starred without making any changes to your GitHub account, pass the --dry-run flag:

$ thanks-stars --dry-run
⭐ Would star https://github.com/xxx/xxx via Cargo.toml
✅ Already starred https://github.com/xxx/yyy via package.json
✨ Dry run complete! ⭐ 1 repository would be starred, ✅ 1 already starred.

The command still inspects your dependencies so it can report which ones are already starred, but it avoids sending any API requests that would change your starred repositories.

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Thanks Stars helps you recognize the maintainers who keep your stack running—so while you're at it, don't forget to ⭐ this project too!