GitHub Users

A block for looking up a GitHub user's public profile, or the profile of the account the supplied credentials belong to.

Github Get User Info

What it is

This block fetches information about a GitHub user, or about the authenticated user (yourself) if no username is given.

How it works

Calls /users/{username} when a username is given, and the authenticated-user endpoint /user when it is left empty — which is how one block answers both "who is this person" and "who am I". The commonly used fields are pulled out as discrete outputs, and the untouched response is emitted as user as well, because GitHub returns roughly forty fields and which ones matter depends on the caller. The two endpoints do not return the same object: for the authenticated user the payload additionally carries private account details such as plan, email and private repository counts, so route user with that in mind.

Inputs

Input	Description	Type	Required
username	Username of the GitHub user to look up. Leave empty to get the authenticated user (yourself).	str	No

Outputs

Output	Description	Type
error	Error message if fetching the user info failed	str
username	Login (username) of the user	str
name	Display name of the user	str
profile_url	URL of the user's GitHub profile	str
avatar_url	URL of the user's avatar image	str
user	The full user object from the API. For the authenticated user (i.e. when no username is given) this also includes private account details such as plan, email and private repository counts.	Dict[str, Any]

Possible use case

A graph resolves the operating account once at the start of a run — no username, so it hits /user — and reuses the returned login to filter issues, pull requests and review requests to that person's own, instead of hardcoding a username into every downstream block.

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