Add Github Star Count to Homebridge Plugins stats

[mpatfield]

Current Situation

I recently visited the Homebridge Plugins Analytics page with the intention of browsing popular plugins to see if there were any cool ones I was missing.

No disrespect to the plugin developers, but I was surprised to find homebridge-melcloud-control, homebridge-enphase-envoy, and homebridge-syntex among the top. They all have fewer than 100 stars, and homebridge-syntex only has 3.

By contrast, homebridge-camera-ui, which I am not surprised is popular, has almost 700.

Proposed Change

It seems like some plugins have artificially inflated download counts (not sure why), so personally, I feel like GitHub star count might be, if not a better measure, then at least a different way to determine the popularity of plugins.

Is it easy or even possible to add a column and filter/sort by GitHub star count?

Additional Context

I took a brief look at the homebridge/analytics repo. Is this the right place to start? I'm happy to try and make the updates myself and create a pull request if somebody could give me a little guidance.

Thanks for considering!

[NorthernMan54]

@mpatfield sorry just seeing this now ( I did not notifications enabled for this ). I have asked co-pilot to take a stab at this, fingers crossed