Best GitHub API wrapper for profile data

What to require of any vendor here

• Ask what it does with the fields GitHub does not have. A repository is not a post and a star is not a like. A wrapper that fills `posts_count` from the repo count has started producing fiction to keep the shape full.
• Ask whether you need it at all. If GitHub is your only platform, call `api.github.com` directly — it needs no token for a public user. A wrapper earns its keep at the second platform, not the first.

Where the number actually lives

We read followers from api.github.com (official, authenticated) — user object. Handle format: GitHub username: letters, digits and single hyphens, up to 39 characters, not starting or ending with a hyphen.

What you are handing over

GitHub serves this from its official API, so the shape is stable and the read needs no browser. What you are handing over is the normalisation: the same eight fields as every other network, with the three GitHub does not have marked null instead of guessed.

What this does not return

• No post count. public_repos counts repositories, not posts, so posts_count stays null instead of borrowing a number that means something else.
• No verified flag. GitHub has no verification badge for user accounts, so verified is null rather than false — absent is not negative.
• No private accounts. A GitHub user page is public or it does not exist, so is_private is null for the same reason.

Our endpoints for this platform — 2

• github/profile — Public profile on github, with the exact follower count.
• github/repos — Public repositories of a GitHub account, with stars and forks.

Shape, parameters and the errors each one returns are in the endpoint reference, and this platform has its own page with the recorded response.

What the alternatives cost

We do not restate competitor prices here. The vendor pages carry them — 35 of them — each price read on that vendor's own page, with the date we read it. Readings run from 2026-09-05 to 2026-10-03.

A price copied into a second place is a price that will disagree with itself the first time a vendor changes one. Verify on their page before deciding — we are an interested party.