687 stars · MIT · no GitHub releases at all — a determination, not a gap, confirmed by opening /releases. Code pushed 1 September 2026, proved by the service itself · Track this in Scout
A free unauthenticated mirror of the parts of the GitHub API most people want, answered from one web address with no account, no key and caching in front.
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What it is
A small hosted service from the UnJS group that mirrors the parts of GitHub's API most people want, with caching, no authentication and no rate limit of its own. It covers repository details, contributors, file trees, READMEs, releases, branches, organisations, star counts and users.What it is good for. Anyone who writes a script that needs to know something about a GitHub project. A dashboard of the tools you depend on. A page on your site that shows a star count. A check that warns you when a dependency stops receiving code. Setting up a token for a five-line script is the friction this removes. It is also how this report proved four things this morning, which is the second finding below.
- MIT, free, no account, no key, and the answer is small and plain.
- It answers from places a GitHub token often cannot reach, including restricted build environments.
- The endpoints are obvious enough to guess: the project name goes straight into the address.
- It is somebody else's service with 687 stars. If it stops, your script stops. Do not put it in the path of anything that must work.
- Answers are cached, so a number can be a little behind. That is fine for a date and wrong for a live counter.
- Not every endpoint answered during this run. The repository endpoint worked every time; the latest-release endpoint answered for one project and refused for two others.
- octokit/octokit.js
GitHub's own official library. It does everything, and it wants a token and a build step where this wants a web address.
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The gh command. It is the right answer at a terminal you have logged into, and the wrong one inside a script running somewhere without a login.
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curl https://ungh.cc/repos/bluenviron/mediamtx curl https://ungh.cc/repos/bluenviron/mediamtx/releases/latest
