| title: REST API endpoints for starring | |
| shortTitle: Starring | |
| intro: Use the REST API to bookmark a repository. | |
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| ## About starring | |
| You can use the REST API to star (bookmark) a repository. Stars are shown next to repositories to show an approximate level of interest. Stars have no effect on notifications or the activity feed. For more information, see [AUTOTITLE](/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/saving-repositories-with-stars). | |
| ### Starring versus watching | |
| In August 2012, we [changed the way watching | |
| works](https://github.com/blog/1204-notifications-stars) on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. Some API | |
| client applications may still be using the original "watcher" endpoints for accessing | |
| this data. You should now use the "star" endpoints instead (described | |
| below). For more information, see [AUTOTITLE](/rest/activity/watching) and the [changelog post](https://developer.github.com/changes/2012-09-05-watcher-api/). | |
| In responses from the REST API, `watchers`, `watchers_count`, and `stargazers_count` correspond to the number of users that have starred a repository, whereas `subscribers_count` corresponds to the number of watchers. | |
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