Github-profile-viewer

Desktop application to view profile data of Github users from their github username using the Github REST API.

Tech Stack💻

• Python
• Tkinter
• Matplotlib
• REST API

API used💻

• GitHub REST API
• Endpoints:
  • /users/{username} (for user profile information)
  • /users/{username}/repos (for repository list)
  • /users/{username}/followers (for followers list)
  • /users/{username}/following (for following list)

Features ✨

• Search github profiles 🔍
• Displays publicly available data in github profile such as,
  • Profile picture
  • Name
  • GitHub url
  • Bio
  • Email ID
  • Company
  • Location
  • Number of followers
  • Number of followings
  • Twitter profile name
  • Total number of repositories
  • Date of account creation in GitHub
  • Last date of GitHub account modified
• Display names of all repositories in the GitHub account.
• Opens the webpage of the repository in your default web browser by double clicking on the repository name.
• Displays the top 5 starred repositories in the Github account.
• Display all the followers and followings list.
• Graphical visualizations of GitHub profile repository 📊
  • Repository creation count over the years (Bar chart).
  • Programming language usage distribution (Pie chart).
  • Star count for top 5 repositories (bar chart).
  • Top committed repositories with commit count (pie chart).
• Error handling done to handle invalid github profiles, API rate limit exceeded.

Screenshots💻

Installation🔌

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the project directory
3. Install the dependencies

Run⚙️

Before running the application,

1. Obtain a GitHub personal access token.
2. Insert your personal access token into github_profile_viewer.py file. Replace with your GitHub personal access token key = "YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN'
3. Run the github_profile_viewer.py file.

License 📖

MIT license