GET/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contributors

List repository contributors

Lists contributors to the specified repository and sorts them by the number of commits per contributor in descending order. This endpoint may return information that is a few hours old because the GitHub REST API caches contributor data to improve performance.

GitHub identifies contributors by author email address. This endpoint groups contribution counts by GitHub user, which includes all associated email addresses. To improve performance, only the first 500 author email addresses in the repository link to GitHub users. The rest will appear as anonymous contributors without associated GitHub user information.

RetriesRetries up to 2×, 500ms backoff, 30s timeout.

5 parameters

ownerstringrequired

The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

repostringrequired

The name of the repository without the `.git` extension. The name is not case sensitive.

anonstringoptional

Set to `1` or `true` to include anonymous contributors in results.

per_pageintegeroptional

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "[Using pagination in the REST API](https://docs.github.com/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api)."

Default:30

pageintegeroptional

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "[Using pagination in the REST API](https://docs.github.com/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api)."

Default:1

4 status codes

200If repository contains content

loginstringoptional

idintegeroptional

node_idstringoptional

avatar_urlstringoptional

gravatar_idstringoptional

urlstringoptional

html_urlstringoptional

followers_urlstringoptional

following_urlstringoptional

gists_urlstringoptional

starred_urlstringoptional

subscriptions_urlstringoptional

organizations_urlstringoptional

repos_urlstringoptional

events_urlstringoptional

received_events_urlstringoptional

typestringrequired

site_adminbooleanoptional

contributionsintegerrequired

emailstringoptional

namestringoptional

user_view_typestringoptional

204Response if repository is empty

403Forbidden

messagestringoptional

documentation_urlstringoptional

urlstringoptional

statusstringoptional

404Resource not found

messagestringoptional

documentation_urlstringoptional

urlstringoptional

statusstringoptional

Error handling

A 403 is returned: Forbidden. A 404 is returned: Resource not found.

import { Client } from "acme-sdk";

const client = new Client({
  baseUrl: "https://api.acme.com",
  auth: { bearer: process.env.API_TOKEN },
  retry: {
    maxAttempts: 3,
    retryOn: [
      408,
      425,
      429,
      500,
      502,
      503,
      504,
    ],
    backoffMs: 500,
    maxBackoffMs: 8000,
  },
  timeoutMs: 30000,
});

const result = await client.contributors.list({
  owner: "octocat",
  repo: "hello-world",
  anon: "example",
  perPage: 20,
  page: 1,
});

[
  {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false,
    "contributions": 32
  }
]

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Response

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