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I Built an API to Showcase Top Contributors on GitHub READMEs

DEV Community·Vishnu Nandan·22 days ago
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I wanted a simple way to showcase the top contributors across all my GitHub repositories directly on my GitHub profile README. Something like contrib.rocks, but across all repositories.. Surprisingly, I couldn't really find a clean solution for it. Most existing tools were either: repo-specific difficult to self-host dependent on live GitHub API scraping heavily rate limited or just abandoned So I built one. 🏆 Top Contributors API Website: https://top-contributors-api.vercel.app/ How it looks like: 🤔 Why I Built It Originally, I just wanted this for my own GitHub profile. Something simple: aggregate contributors across all repos render avatars nicely auto-update easy to embed no maintenance headaches I assumed someone had already built it. Apparently not. Or at least not in the way I wanted. So this became one of those: “Fine, I'll build it myself.” projects. ⚠️ The Real Problem Wasn't the Image Rendering the image itself was easy.…

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