Stars are not a review

A curated list of scraping APIs on GitHub carries about 2,400 stars, some 500 forks and an "Updated Daily" badge. Count its links and a different shape appears: over 4,600 point to a single marketplace, every one with the same referral parameter, and fewer than thirty go anywhere else. No licence file, and no commit since the day it was created eight months ago.

• Nothing here is illegal. Affiliate links are an ordinary way to fund a list, and the tools may work perfectly well.
• It makes a gap visible: stars record that a page was found useful or interesting, never that anyone checked it.

• AI assistants and agents increasingly treat popular repositories as trusted sources, recommending, installing and copying from them. A human browsing signal quietly becomes an input to automated decisions.
• Scraping the platforms on such a list usually breaches their terms, which no star count will tell you.

Source: GitHub Docs, τι σημαίνει στην πραγματικότητα ένα αστέρι σε repository