GitHub Readme Stats
Display your GitHub stats on your Readme!
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This API is best for displaying a summary of a user's GitHub stats on their Readme page.
This API is best suited for developers looking to display their GitHub profile stats on their readme page. With it, they can easily showcase their coding activity, quickly get an overview of their stats, and let other users get to know them better by allowing them to click through to the person's profile. It also shows how popular a project is with the number of stars and pull requests.
Key features
- The API has the ability to display summaries of the following stats: number of followers
- stars
- commits
- repos
- gists
- and pull requests.
Potential use cases
- Badge Generator: Create a web app which allows users to generate badges from the GitHub Readme Stats API to display on their readme page.
- Repository Ranking System: Create a ranking system for GitHub repositories based on their data from the GitHub Readme Stats API.
- Popular Projects Finder: Develop a tool to search and find the most popular projects on GitHub based on the stats from the GitHub Readme Stats API.
The GitHub Readme Stats API changed the way I display my coding profile. I have been using it for almost a year now and it's really helpful for getting an overview of my stats - it looks great on my readme page and there's nothing else that can do the same!
Related Technologies
- GitStats
- GitHub Contribution Chart
- GraphQL API for GitHub
- GitHub API