Kong/insomnia · error · Error

unable to get stars from GitHub API

Error message

unable to get stars from GitHub API

What it means

Error "unable to get stars from GitHub API" thrown in Kong/insomnia.

Source

Thrown at packages/insomnia/src/ui/components/github-stars-button.tsx:32

  const initialState = Number.parseInt(localStorageStars || '30000', 10);
  const [starCount, setStarCount] = useState(initialState);

  useEffect(() => {
    localStorage.setItem(LOCALSTORAGE_GITHUB_STARS_KEY, String(starCount));
  }, [starCount]);

  const [error, setError] = useState<Error | null>(null);

  reactUse.useMount(() => {
    if (!isMounted()) {
      return;
    }

    fetch(`${getGitHubRestApiUrl()}/repos/Kong/insomnia`)
      .then(data => data.json())
      .then(info => {
        if (!('watchers' in info)) {
          throw new Error('unable to get stars from GitHub API');
        }

        if (!isMounted()) {
          return;
        }

        setStarCount(info.watchers);
        setError(null);
      })
      .catch(error => {
        if (!isMounted()) {
          return;
        }

        console.error('error fetching GitHub stars', error);
        setError(error);
      });
  });

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/insomnia/src/ui/components/github-stars-button.tsx:32 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of Kong/insomnia@d9bb2b0142 (2026-08-26). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0427b7a50d863d8c. Report an issue: GitHub.