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
http(s)://[hostname]/api/v3/users/octocat/hovercard?subject_type=repository&subject_id=1300192
{
"contexts": [
{
"message": "Owns this repository",
"octicon": "repo"
}
]
}