List accounts a GitHub user follows · GitHub API
Returns the accounts a GitHub user follows. Paginate with `cursor`.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/github/users/{username}/following \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- usernamepathrequired
- GitHub username of a user or organization.
- cursorquery
- Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response's `pagination.next_cursor`. Omit for the first page.
- 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
- Resolve a public GitHub identity into structured profile metadata for enrichment agents.
- Refresh creator, company, or account snapshots without managing source-specific response shapes.
- 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
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
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 on each record in data
A successful List accounts a GitHub user follows call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.
- platform_user_idstring | null
- GitHub user id as a string.
- node_idstring | null
- GitHub node id when available.
- usernamestring | null
- GitHub login (username).
- avatar_urlstring | null
- Avatar image URL when available.
- profile_urlstring | null
- Canonical public GitHub profile URL.
- account_typestring | null
- Whether this account is a user or organization. One of: User, Organization.
- is_site_adminboolean | null
- Whether the account is a GitHub site administrator.
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 followers
Returns the accounts that follow a GitHub user or organization. Paginate with `cursor`.
List pull requests by a GitHub user
Returns public pull requests authored by a GitHub user, optionally between `since` and `until`, with repository, state and timestamps. Paginate with `cursor`.
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.
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`.