API is very confusing by listing Stars count for Watchers count on all repos

[vtempest]

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=vscode
stargazers_count: 70274,
forks_count: 9362,
forks: 9362
watchers_count: 70274, <--(LISTED)
watchers: 70274,

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
Stars 70,274
Forks 9,362
Watchers 2,667 <--- (REAL)

[rsese]

Sorry for the confusion here - this part of the API changed when we moved “watching” to mean “starring” and is explained in this post from the API blog:

http://developer.github.com/changes/2012-9-5-watcher-api/

watchers corresponds to the number of users that have starred a repository, while subscribers_count corresponds to the number of watchers. For example, looking at the Atom repository:

https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom

Right now it has:

“subscribers_count”: 2468
“stargazers_count”: 48009

This is because there are 2468 watchers (= subscribers) and 48009 stargazers.

I hope that clears things up but if you have more questions, please let us know!

[jinyeqing]

repo_list =
for (var j = 0; j < Pages.length; j++) {
if (!Pages[j][‘fork’]) {//排除fork别人的库
repo_list.push({
name: Pages[j][‘name’],
stargazers_count: Pages[j][‘stargazers_count’],
forks_count: Pages[j][‘forks_count’],
html_url: Pages[j][‘html_url’],
open_issues_count: Pages[j][‘open_issues_count’],
subscribers_count: Pages[j][‘subscribers_count’],
language: Pages[j][‘language’]

});
}
}

why i use this，but show like the photo as follows：

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[rsese]

Hmm, not sure what the issue just from the code screenshot but are you able to reproduce the problem with subscribers_count with a curl request?  For example, I see https://github.com/AgoraIO/Electron-SDK in your list of repositories but if I get that repository [1] with curl:

$ curl https://api.github.com/repos/AgoraIO/Electron-SDK | grep subscribers_count
  "subscribers_count": 34

We see subscribers_count in the response.  If you can’t reproduce with curl, my guess is that there’s an issue with the code.

1: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get