Use of Github API

 Github APIs( or Github ReST APIs) are the APIs that you can use to interact with GitHub. They allow you to create and manage repositories, branches, issues, pull requests, and many more. For fetching publicly available information (like public repositories, user profiles, etc.), you can call the API.

Important URLs -

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search#search-users

https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-users

https://api.github.com/search/users?q=Subhradip%20in:name

Code samples

GET/search/users

curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ https://api.github.com/search/users

Results : 

{ "total_count": 2, "incomplete_results": false, "items": [ { "id": 418327088, "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWw0MTgzMjcwODg=", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/linguist/labels/enhancement", "name": "enhancement", "color": "84b6eb", "default": true, "description": "New feature or request.", "score": 1 }, { "id": 418327086, "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWw0MTgzMjcwODY=", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/linguist/labels/bug", "name": "bug", "color": "ee0701", "default": true, "description": "Something isn't working.", "score": 1 } ] }

Search only users or organizations

By default, searching users will return both personal and organizations. However, you can use the type qualifier to restrict search results to personal accounts or organizations only.

Qualifier	Example
type:user	mike in:name created:<2011-01-01 type:user matches personal accounts named "mike" that were created before 2011.
type:org	data in:email type:org matches organizations with the word "data" in their email.

Search by account name, full name, or public email

You can filter your search to the personal user or organization account name with user or org qualifiers.

With the in qualifier you can restrict your search to the username (login), full name, public email, or any combination of these. When you omit this qualifier, only the username and email address are searched. For privacy reasons, you cannot search by email domain name.

Qualifier	Example
user:name	user:octocat matches the user with the username "octocat".
org:name	org:electron type:users matches the Electron organization's account name.
in:login	kenya in:login matches users with the word "kenya" in their username.
in:name	bolton in:name matches users whose real name contains the word "bolton."
fullname:firstname lastname	fullname:nat friedman matches a user with the full name "Nat Friedman." Note: This search qualifier is sensitive to spacing.
in:email	data in:email matches users with the word "data" in their email.

Full - https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-users

https://api.github.com/search/users?q=Subhradip%20in:name