GitHub Developer Info

This API provides fetches detailed developer profiles from GitHub. It returns bio, repository counts, follower stats, account creation dates & more.

Endpoint

POST /api/v1/github-info

Request Parameters

The following parameters are accepted in the request body:

Field	Type	Required	Description
username	string	Yes	The GitHub username target.

Request Examples

cURL

curl -X POST https://heavstal.com.ng/api/v1/github-info \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
-d '{"username": "torvalds"}'

JavaScript (Fetch)

const response = await fetch('https://heavstal.com.ng/api/v1/github-info', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'x-api-key': '<YOUR_API_KEY>'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ username: 'torvalds' })
});

const res = await response.json();
console.log(res.data);

Heavstal SDK

import { search } from '@heavstal/api';

const dev = await search.github("torvalds");
console.log(`Name: ${dev.data.name} | Repos: ${dev.data.public_repos}`);

Python

import requests

url = "https://heavstal.com.ng/api/v1/github-info"
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "x-api-key": "<YOUR_API_KEY>"
}
payload = {
    "username": "torvalds"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=payload)
print(response.json()["data"])

Response Examples

Success Response

{
  "status": "success",
  "code": 200,
  "creator": "HEAVSTAL TECH",
  "data": {
    "username": "torvalds",
    "name": "Linus Torvalds",
    "bio": "Linux creator",
    "followers": 195000,
    "public_repos": 7,
    "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4",
    "created_at": "2011-09-03T15:26:22Z"
  }
}

Error Response

{
  "status": "error",
  "error": "GitHub user not found."
}