Get a GitHub repository · GitHub API
Returns a public GitHub repository: description, topics, license, default branch, languages, stars, forks, watchers and open issues. Returns `not_found` when the repository does not exist.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/github/repos/{owner}/{repo} \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- ownerpathrequired
- Repository owner (user or organization).
- repopathrequired
- Repository name.
- The parameter for this GitHub operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the GitHub API in the developer category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs GitHub public data alongside Hacker News, social or web data, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Look up public GitHub data for agents that need reliable open-web context.
- Give an AI agent a stable GitHub data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize GitHub responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- Lookup responses return one canonical object in `data` with stable identifiers, source URLs where available, and platform-specific metadata normalized into predictable JSON.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- A not-found or invalid-input condition uses the unified UnifAPI error shape, so callers do not need special handling for each source platform.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Get a GitHub repository call returns one data object with these fields (12 of 25 shown — the docs list the full schema).
- platform_repo_idstring | null
- GitHub repository id as a string.
- node_idstring | null
- GitHub node id when available.
- namestring | null
- Repository name without the owner prefix.
- full_namestring | null
- Full repository name in `owner/repo` form.
- ownerobject | null
- Repository owner.
- is_privateboolean | null
- Whether the repository is private.
- profile_urlstring | null
- Canonical public GitHub repository URL.
- descriptionstring | null
- Repository description when available.
- is_forkboolean | null
- Whether the repository is a fork.
- homepagestring | null
- Homepage URL when set on the repository.
- languagestring | null
- Primary programming language when reported.
- forks_countnumber | null
- Fork count when available.
More GitHub operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
List a GitHub account's repositories
Returns the public repositories of a GitHub user or organization with language, stars, forks and update times. Filter by type and sort. Paginate with `cursor`.
List trending GitHub developers
Returns GitHub's trending developers for a time window, optionally for one programming language, with each developer's popular repository.
List trending GitHub repositories
Returns GitHub's trending repositories for a time window (`daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`), optionally for one programming or spoken language, with stars gained in the window.
Get a GitHub user or organization
Returns a public GitHub user or organization profile: name, bio, company, location, blog, follower and repository counts. Returns `not_found` when the account does not exist.
List a GitHub user's public activity
Returns a GitHub user's public activity one month at a time (commits, pull requests, issues, reviews). The cursor pages backward month by month through the selected `year`.
Get a GitHub user's contribution graph
Returns a GitHub user's daily contribution counts and total for one calendar year (default: the current year). Returns `not_found` when the user does not exist.