https://github.com/reshmaharidhas/github-profile-viewer

Desktop application to view data of any Github profile from their github username using the Github REST API. It features information in visualizations with Matplotlib.
https://github.com/reshmaharidhas/github-profile-viewer

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Desktop application to view data of any Github profile from their github username using the Github REST API. It features information in visualizations with Matplotlib.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/reshmaharidhas/github-profile-viewer
• Owner: reshmaharidhas
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-07-08T01:30:06.000Z (7 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-09T01:40:08.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-10T03:22:55.218Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: api, application-programming-interface, bar-chart, desktop-app, desktop-application, github, github-api, github-profile-stats, github-profile-viewer, github-rest-api, json, json-parser, matplotlib, pie-chart, python-desktop-application, python3, rest-api, tkinter, tkinter-gui, visualization
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 63.5 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Github-profile-viewer  [![forthebadge made-with-python](http://ForTheBadge.com/images/badges/made-with-python.svg)](https://www.python.org/)



  

  

  

  



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


![screenshot_my_profile](https://github.com/reshmaharidhas/Github-profile-viewer/assets/37250413/7fbd37d4-60a3-4010-ad21-748f87f80a83)

## 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💻

![screenshot_google](https://github.com/reshmaharidhas/Github-profile-viewer/assets/37250413/659ec57c-631a-4195-95e8-07b5af0296bb)

## 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