GitHub Star Count Video Generator
Turn any public repository's star count or star history into a shareable animated video.
How GenMotion's free star count video works
Three steps, no account, and nothing to install.
- Step 1
Paste a repository
Type any public repo as owner/repo, or paste its GitHub URL. We read the live star count from the public GitHub API and its month-by-month history alongside.
- Step 2
Pick a style and size
Choose Count up, Stat card, or Chart rise to draw the star history as a curve — then 16:9 for YouTube, 1:1 for the feed, or 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and Stories.
- Step 3
Download the MP4
The video renders in your browser in a few seconds and saves straight to your machine. No account, no queue, no watermark beyond a small badge.
Who is GenMotion's free star count video for?
Open-source maintainers
Mark the moment a project crosses 1k, 10k or 100k stars — or show the shape of its growth — with something more shareable than a screenshot of the repo page.
Founders and indie hackers
Traction is proof. Drop a star-count clip into a launch thread, an investor update, or the top of a landing page.
Developer advocates
Give a community win the production value it deserves without opening an editor or waiting on a designer.
Frequently asked questions
Enter a repository as owner/repo — for example facebook/react — pick a style and a size, then hit Download. The video is generated in your browser and saved as an MP4 in a few seconds.
Yes. It's free, needs no sign-up, and there's no limit on how many videos you make. Videos carry a small GenMotion badge.
Straight from the public GitHub API, cached for an hour. It's the same number shown on the repository page, so it's accurate to within that hour.
Yes — pick the Chart rise style. It draws the repository's star history month by month while the number counts alongside it, so both land together on the live figure.
From OSS Insight, which derives it from GH Archive — GitHub's public event stream. GitHub's own stargazers API stops paginating at about 40,000 stars, so the recent part of a popular repository's timeline would be unreachable; the event-stream data has no such ceiling. Today's exact total still comes from the GitHub API, so the chart ends on the live figure.
The chart needs at least two months of history. Very new repositories don't have it yet, and it can take OSS Insight a while to catch up after a rename or transfer. The Count up and Stat card styles work regardless.
Yes — that's what it's for. Pick 1:1 or 9:16 for feed and Stories posts, or 16:9 for YouTube and slides. The MP4 is H.264, which every platform accepts.
No. Only public repositories are readable, so private ones return a not-found error.
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