users

List followers of a user

Lists the people following the specified user.

If the specified user has a private profile, this endpoint returns an empty list unless the request is authenticated as that user. A request authenticated as the specified user returns the list even if the token has no OAuth scopes.

get/users/{username}/followers

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.github.com
  • URL: https://api.github.com/users/{username}/followers
  • Auth: none declared

Path parameters

usernamestring required

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Query parameters

per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

pageinteger

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Response

Response

namestring nullable
emailstring nullable
loginstring required
idinteger required
node_idstring required
avatar_urlstring uri required
gravatar_idstring nullable required
urlstring uri required
html_urlstring uri required
followers_urlstring uri required
following_urlstring required
gists_urlstring required
starred_urlstring required
subscriptions_urlstring uri required
organizations_urlstring uri required
repos_urlstring uri required
events_urlstring required
received_events_urlstring uri required
typestring required
site_adminboolean required
starred_atstring
user_view_typestring

Example response

[
  {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "starred_at": "\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\"",
    "user_view_type": "public"
  }
]

Changes

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