Download watchers, forks, and stargazers of a repo

[MaybeThisIsRu]

I would like to move away from GitHub at some point, but also would like to keep data around who starred my repos, who was watching it, and who forked it.

[Iamrodos]

Still unimplemented as of 0.63.0.

The existing flags only capture the outbound direction: --starred (repos you starred), --watched (repos you watch), --followers/--following (people). Nothing captures the inbound social graph of a repo you own. --fork is unrelated too, it controls whether your own forks get cloned, not who forked you.

Regular repositories also get no metadata JSON written at all. backup_repositories only dumps gist.json for gists, so the repo API object (which carries stargazers_count, forks_count and subscribers_count) is used in memory and discarded. So today you can't recover even the counts after the fact, let alone the identities.

Adding it would mean three paginated endpoints:

• GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/stargazers
• GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/subscribers, which are the actual watchers; watchers_count in the repo object is a legacy alias for the star count
• GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/forks

It's a nicely self-contained piece of work if you or anyone else reading this fancies picking it up, PRs very welcome. Given the issue has been sitting a while, is this still something you need? Happy either way, just useful to know whether to leave it open for someone to grab.