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Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kapias <tkapias@git.tkapias.net>
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## Introduction ## Introduction
Each repository's Releases page on Github has a link to an atom file. Each repository's Releases page on Github has a [link](https://github.com/user/repository/releases.atom) to an atom file.
This **syndication feeds** allows, among other things : This **syndication feeds** allows, among other things :
- to monitor the appearance of new releases, - to monitor the appearance of new releases,
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Moreover with the recent feature of **[starred repositories lists](https://github.blog/changelog/2021-12-09-lists-are-now-available-as-a-public-beta/)**, you can choose to **follow only some personal categories** of releases. Moreover with the recent feature of **[starred repositories lists](https://github.blog/changelog/2021-12-09-lists-are-now-available-as-a-public-beta/)**, you can choose to **follow only some personal categories** of releases.
- The **1st issue** lies in the fact tha **Github's interface does not provide** any feature to **export** thoses atom file in bulk. - The **1st issue** lies in the fact tha **Github's interface does not provide** any feature to **export** these atom file in bulk.
Github's API does provide an [endpoint](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-repositories-starred-by-a-user) to fetch all the repositories starred by an user, it's easy to generate the atom list from here. - Github's API does provide an [endpoint](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-repositories-starred-by-a-user) to fetch all the repositories starred by an user, it's easy to generate the atom list from here.
- But, a **2nd issue** is that this **[API does not yet provide](https://github.com/community/community/discussions/8293)** an endpoint to **filter the starred repositories by a List** created by the user. - But, a **2nd issue** is that this **[API does not yet provide](https://github.com/community/community/discussions/8293)** an endpoint to **filter the starred repositories by a List** created by the user.
**gh-starred-to-opml** is a script that will fetch these informations for you and generate a file that can be imported in most Feed Reader applications, like [Miniflux](https://github.com/miniflux/v2). **gh-starred-to-opml** is a bash script that will fetch these informations for you and generate a file that can be imported in most Feed Reader applications, like [Miniflux](https://github.com/miniflux/v2).
## Requirements ## Requirements