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user-profile
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A Node.js package that retrieves user profiles. A basic package for a scotch.io "Packaging an Npm Library" tutorial.
First, install the package using npm:
npm install user-profile --save
Then, require the package and use it like so:
var profile = require('user-profile');
.github({username}).gitlab({username}).bitbucket({username})Result:
{
"login": "codediger",
"id": 16918891,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE2OTE4ODkx",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/16918891?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger",
"html_url": "https://github.com/codediger",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/codediger/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false,
"name": "Orinami Olatunji",
"company": "Korex",
"blog": "orinami.space",
"location": "Lagos, Nigeria",
"email": null,
"hireable": true,
"bio": "Frontend Engineer ",
"public_repos": 79,
"public_gists": 1,
"followers": 30,
"following": 19,
"created_at": "2016-01-27T12:57:56Z",
"updated_at": "2018-06-23T10:35:55Z"
}
profile.gitlab("codediger");
profile.bitbucket("orinami");
MIT
FAQs
An NPM package to get a user profile on various platforms
The npm package user-profile receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, user-profile popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that user-profile demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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