Tracking the #Fake #GitHub #Star #BlackMarket with #Dagster, #dbt and #BigQuery | #DagsterBlog
"We knew there were dubious services out there offering #StarsCorCash, so we set up a dummy repo (frasermarlow/tap-bls) and purchased a bunch of stars. From these, we devised a profile for fake accounts and ran a number of #repos through a test using the GitHub REST API (via pygithub) and the GitHub Archive database."