/stargazers does not exist anymore (404)

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Inspect the implementation for buttons with type=star and count=true, using the example URL and the reported stargazers href as the starting points. Verify the generated button after the change: the star count should remain available without linking to the unavailable /stargazers page.

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Description

When you create a button of type=star and count=true, then it displays the number 'star gazers' next to the button, with a hyperlink to the GitHub Stargazers page. However as of the 30th June 2026 all repositories now return a 404 for /stargazers.

Example:
https://ghbtns.com/github-btn.html?user=twbs&repo=bootstrap&type=star&count=true

Href:
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/stargazers

There is a blog post about this change here:
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-30-upcoming-access-restrictions-to-public-api-endpoints-and-ui-views/

I suspect the fix is just to remove the href.

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