Empty top languages card

[a-menshchikov]

I have an empty Top Languages (https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api/top-langs/?username=a-menshchikov):

Could you explain why?

Previously I have thought that it's a temporary bug, but I see it more than 6 months.

[rickstaa]

@a-menshchikov Thanks for your issue. I checked your problem and it seems that something goes wrong while trying to fetch language data for your username using the GraphQL API. You can see this in action by using the following query in the graphql explorer:

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    # fetch only owner repos & not forks
    repositories(ownerAffiliations: OWNER, isFork: false, first: 100) {
      nodes {
        name
        languages(first: 10, orderBy: {field: SIZE, direction: DESC}) {
          edges {
            size
            node {
              color
              name
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You can then use the following in the query variables field.

{"login": "a-menshchikov"}

Fetching the user stats for your account doesn't cause any problems:

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    repositories(first: 100, orderBy: {direction: DESC, field: STARGAZERS}) {
      totalCount
      nodes {
        name
        stargazers {
          totalCount
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

However, I noticed that you only have forks after looking through your repositories. We currently do not fetch data from forks only from parent repositories. This behaviour can be seen by changing the isFork parameter in the query to true, after which the language stats your looking for show up.

[rickstaa]

@a-menshchikov Does the answer above solve your problem?

[a-menshchikov]

@rickstaa It helped me to understand that there is no problem. =)

[rickstaa]

I agree that this behaviour should be documented. A feature request for also counting language information for code that is found in forks can be found in #1437. I will close this issue for now. Feel free to comment if you still need help.

[rickstaa]

Related to #1790.