Get contextual information for a user

GET

/users/{username}/hovercard

Provides hovercard information when authenticated through basic auth or OAuth with the repo scope. You can find out more about someone in relation to their pull requests, issues, repositories, and organizations.

The subject_type and subject_id parameters provide context for the person's hovercard, which returns more information than without the parameters. For example, if you wanted to find out more about octocat who owns the Spoon-Knife repository via cURL, it would look like this:

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.github.com/users//hovercard'

Response Example

200 - Example 1

{
    "contexts": [
        {
            "message": "string",
            "octicon": "string"
        }
    ]
}

Request

Path Params

Query Params

Responses

🟢200Response

application/json

Body

🟠404404

🟠422422

Modified at 2023-08-15 02:59:30

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