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GitHub Get User Profile

Get a public GitHub user profile by username. Returns user metadata including name, bio, company, location, public repository and gist counts, follower/following counts, and account creation date. No API key required (rate limited to 60 requests/hour unauthenticated). Useful for looking up developer profiles, finding researchers' GitHub activity, and exploring contributors to scientific software projects.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 235msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 235ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "username": {
      "description": "GitHub username. Examples: 'torvalds' (Linus Torvalds), 'gvanrossum' (Guido van Rossum), 'hadley' (Hadley Wickham), 'jlord' (Jessica Lord)",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "username"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default GitHub Get User Profile call

public-safeinput

{
  "username": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_GitHub_get_user_profile
Tool name: GitHub_get_user_profile
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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