Note: You can now retrieve someone's hovercard information in different contexts using the Hovercard API. This feature is currently available for developers to preview. See the blog post for full details. To access the API during the preview period, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:
application/vnd.github.hagar-preview+json
Warning: The API may change without advance notice during the preview period. Preview features are not supported for production use. If you experience any issues, contact your GitHub Enterprise site administrator.
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.
GET /users/:username/hovercard
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
subject_type |
string |
Identifies which additional information you'd like to receive about the person's hovercard. Can be organization, repository, issue, pull_request. Required when using subject_id. |
subject_id |
string |
Uses the ID for the subject_type you specified. Required when using subject_type. |
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:
curl -u username:token -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.hagar-preview+json' \
http(s)://[hostname]/api/v3/users/octocat/hovercard?subject_type=repository&subject_id=1300192
{
"contexts": [
{
"message": "Owns this repository",
"octicon": "repo"
}
]
}