One liner adding a LIVE star history chart to your GitHub README

What it does

Now we support embedding a live star history chart into your GitHub README. Above is the screenshot from our own GitHub start history repo . This feature is quite handy. A snippet would appear after querying the repository from our star-history.com main page; the only thing you need to do is simply copy that snippet into your GitHub README markdown file. Under the hood, it's actually a long story about developing this embedded star history chart. It all starts from an issue 6 years ago. In 2016, a user opened an issue asking to embed GitHub star-history chart into their own website. But due to the development resource and API token limitations, it was dismissed. Recently, we resumed the…from star-history.com

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