GET/user/followers

List followers of the authenticated user

Lists the people following the authenticated user.

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

2 parameters
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
200Response
namestringoptional
emailstringoptional
loginstringrequired
idintegerrequired
node_idstringrequired
avatar_urlstringrequired
gravatar_idstringrequired
urlstringrequired
html_urlstringrequired
followers_urlstringrequired
following_urlstringrequired
gists_urlstringrequired
starred_urlstringrequired
subscriptions_urlstringrequired
organizations_urlstringrequired
repos_urlstringrequired
events_urlstringrequired
received_events_urlstringrequired
typestringrequired
site_adminbooleanrequired
starred_atstringoptional
user_view_typestringoptional
304Not modified
401Requires authentication
messagestringoptional
documentation_urlstringoptional
urlstringoptional
statusstringoptional
403Forbidden
messagestringoptional
documentation_urlstringoptional
urlstringoptional
statusstringoptional

Error handling

A 401 is returned: Requires authentication. A 403 is returned: Forbidden.

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