Get a Github user

For example, we can get a user without passing an authentication token.

GitHub API endpoints have a cURL command that you can manually translate into a fetchJSON call (e.g. see Get a user).

Here’s a Val that returns a GitHub user object for a given username:

@vtdocs/getGithubUserRun in Val Town ↗

import { fetchJSON } from "https://esm.town/v/stevekrouse/fetchJSON?v=41";

export const getGithubUser = async (username: string) => {
  const user = await fetchJSON(
    `https://api.github.com/users/${username}`,
  );
  return user;
};

You can alter it, or just call it directly like this:

Usage of @vtdocs/getGithubUserRun in Val Town ↗

import { getGithubUser } from "https://esm.town/v/vtdocs/getGithubUser";

console.log(await getGithubUser("stevekrouse"));

You can also do this with octokit.js. Reminder: import npm packages by prepending the package name with npm:.

Usage of npm:@octokit/coreRun in Val Town ↗

import { Octokit } from "npm:@octokit/core";

export const getGithubUserViaOctokit = async (username: string) => {
  const octokit = new Octokit();
  const user = await octokit.request("GET /users/{username}", {
    username,
    headers: {
      "X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
    },
  });
  return user;
};