GitHub

GitHub Followers API

Follower cards {id, login, type, url, avatar} — ~0.1/row; large accounts are expensive to page fully.

List followers from /users/{login}/followers as {id, login, type (User|Organization), url, avatar}. Opaque nextCursor from GitHub's Link header. Billed ~0.1 credits/row (min 3; default limit 30 → ~3). There is no sampling/since parameter — paging a mega-account (~250k followers) costs ~25k credits at this rate; for full archives prefer api.github.com. Structurally identical to github/following.

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/github-followers

get/v1/github/followers

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.captapi.com
  • URL: https://api.captapi.com/v1/github/followers
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • API key in header X-API-Key

Query parameters

usernamestring required

GitHub username or profile URL, e.g. getify.

limitinteger

Max items to return (default 30, max 100). Billed per result.

cursorstring

Opaque cursor from a previous nextCursor (GitHub Link page=). Not a bare page number.

cacheboolean

Set true to serve from the 24h response cache (0 credits on hit). Default false — always fetch fresh.

Response

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

successunknown required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 3 revisions of this API.