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title: REST API endpoints for watching
shortTitle: Watching
intro: Use the REST API to subscribe to notifications for activity in a repository.
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topics:
- API
autogenerated: rest
About watching
You can use the REST API to subscribe to notifications for activity in a repository. To bookmark a repository instead, see AUTOTITLE.
Watching versus starring
In August 2012, we changed the way watching works 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. For more information, AUTOTITLE and the changelog post.
In responses from the REST API, subscribers_count corresponds to the number of watchers, whereas watchers, watchers_count, and stargazers_count correspond to the number of users that have starred a repository.