Get a GitHub user or organization · GitHub API
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.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/github/users/{username} \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"Parameters
- usernamepathrequired
- GitHub username of a user or organization.
- 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
- 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 user or organization call returns one data object with these fields (12 of 21 shown — the docs list the full schema).
- platformstring | null
- Social platform for this profile. One of: github.
- usernamestring | null
- GitHub username (login).
- display_namestring | null
- Public display name when set on the profile.
- biostring | null
- Profile biography text.
- avatar_urlstring | null
- Avatar image URL when available.
- profile_urlstring | null
- Canonical public GitHub profile URL.
- platform_user_idstring | null
- GitHub user or organization id as a string.
- node_idstring | null
- GitHub node id when available.
- account_typestring | null
- Whether this profile is a user or organization account. One of: User, Organization.
- companystring | null
- Company shown on the profile when available.
- locationstring | null
- Location shown on the profile when available.
- blogstring | null
- Blog or website URL from the profile 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 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.
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 followers
Returns the accounts that follow a GitHub user or organization. Paginate with `cursor`.
List accounts a GitHub user follows
Returns the accounts a GitHub user follows. 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`.