Get contextual information for a user

GET {{baseUrl}}/users/:username/hovercard?subject_type=<string>&subject_id=<string>

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.

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
  https://api.github.com/users/octocat/hovercard?subject_type=repository&subject_id=1300192

Request Params

RESPONSES

status: OK

{"contexts":[{"message":"Owns this repository","octicon":"repo"}]}