GitHub Repositories

List a GitHub user's public repositories with descriptions, languages, stars, forks, topics and licenses. Supply the user identifier and paginate with a cursor.

CostAt least 10 credits / call

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POST · https://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositoriesMCP · social_github_user_repositories

What this API does

List a GitHub user's public repositories with descriptions, languages, stars, forks, topics and licenses. Supply the user identifier and paginate with a cursor. The request accepts handle, url, type, sort, direction. Its documented result includes platform, resourceStatus.

GitHub Repositories API use cases

Plan a GitHub Repositories request

A researcher checks the published operation description and supplies handle, url, type, sort, direction for GitHub Repositories. The request stays within the supported parameters rather than assuming other platform capabilities.

Inspect GitHub Repositories results

An analyst reviews platform, resourceStatus from GitHub Repositories for the requested subject. Missing values remain explicit, and the response does not establish complete platform coverage.

Document GitHub Repositories observations

A researcher records the inputs and available results from GitHub Repositories alongside its published description. The record supports a scoped review without inferring unsupported actions, refresh intervals or broader conclusions.

GitHub Repositories API FAQ

What does the GitHub Repositories API return?

List a GitHub user's public repositories with descriptions, languages, stars, forks, topics and licenses. Supply the user identifier and paginate with a cursor. The documented output includes platform, resourceStatus. It corresponds to the supplied handle, url, type, sort, direction. Optional fields can be absent; a missing value should not be interpreted as a measured zero. Example values illustrate the response shape, rather than live account results.

How many credits does the GitHub Repositories API cost?

The current documented cost is At least 10 credits / call. This is the same cost shown at the top of this page. If a range or estimate is displayed, the final charge depends on the request. Review your available credits and the pricing page before calling the API, and check API usage records for the actual charge.

How do I call the GitHub Repositories API from my app or an MCP client?

Send a POST request to https://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories with your API key as a Bearer token and the JSON inputs shown in API integration. In a compatible MCP client such as Claude or Cursor, connect Nexscope and call social_github_user_repositories. Use the MCP arguments shown in the MCP guide, or switch Online test to MCP to review its request before adding it to your app.

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Endpoint

https://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories

MCP method

social_github_user_repositories

Step 1 of 3 · Authenticate

Authentication

All run endpoints require a user API key. Send it as a bearer token in the Authorization header.

Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Missing or invalid API keys return an authentication error. Manage keys from .

Step 2 of 3 · Send a request

POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories

Run an API

Send a JSON request body using the parameters described below.

Example request

Replace YOUR_API_KEY, then run this command in your terminal.

curl -X POST 'https://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "handle": "torvalds"
}'

Code example

{
  "handle": "torvalds"
}

Step 3 of 3 · Inspect the result

Check the response

Read code for the request status and data for the result. Open the parameter and response reference for the full field definitions.

HTTP status codes

Code	Description
200	Default HTTP response for both success and many business errors. Only outer JSON code 0 indicates success or asynchronous acceptance; inspect data for the result.
429	Execution admission rate limit; honor Retry-After when present.
503	Execution admission is temporarily unavailable; honor Retry-After when present.
Opt-in	X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic maps controller-handled business errors to HTTP status on run and task routes. Pre-authentication failures, such as a missing API key (code 11209), may still return HTTP 200 before this mapping. Always check the outer JSON code; malformed requests and infrastructure failures may also return non-200 HTTP responses.

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POSThttps://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories

Run this API

Send a JSON request to execute this API and receive the documented response payload.

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Endpoint

Method	`POST`
Path	`https://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories`
Auth	`Bearer API key`
Content-Type	`application/json`

Request parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`handle`	`string`	optional	GitHub username/handle of the user you want the repositories for Example: torvalds
`url`	`string`	optional	GitHub user URL, e.g. https://github.com/kentcdodds.
`type`	`string`	optional	Repository type. Defaults to owner. GitHub also supports all and member.
`sort`	`string`	optional	Sort by created, updated, pushed, or full_name. Defaults to updated.
`direction`	`string`	optional	Sort direction: ascending or descending.
`cursor`	`number`	optional	Cursor from the previous response. Defaults to 1.

Social data contract

Use your Nexscope API key. No supplier credentials are required. Requests reject unknown fields, including pageSize. URLs require HTTPS and an exact supported platform host and resource path. Documented YouTube video URLs may use youtu.be; other short links are unsupported. Check the request schema for supported fields and defaults.

Each request fetches one page. Continue manually with the returned nextCursor, or nextPage for Instagram Reels (pages 1–11). Cursors are opaque, unchanged strings up to 65536 UTF-8 bytes. No automatic pagination, retry, media download or transcription is performed. Repeated requests may purchase data again.

Resource status is independent of HTTP and billing: AVAILABLE, PARTIAL, PRIVATE, RESTRICTED, NOT_FOUND, NO_TRANSCRIPT or UNKNOWN can accompany code 0. Unknown values remain null; arrays remain empty arrays. fetchedAt is the response observation time; sourceFetchedAt is null without source evidence.

usage.billingStatus is NOT_CHARGED, SETTLED or UNKNOWN; chargedCredits is null when unconfirmed. Unknown charges never mean free. Completed lookups have a minimum charge of 10 credits, including cached, no-caption and unavailable-resource results; check API usage records for the actual charge. Parameter errors and unpublished APIs use the standard error envelope; upstream failures use code 13007, rate limits 429 and timeouts 408. Always check code and msg.

Response example

Platform response envelope. code 0 indicates success or acceptance; data contains the business result.

{
  "code": 0,
  "cost": "-1",
  "data": {
    "data": {
      "cursor": 2,
      "repositories": [
        {
          "archived": false,
          "created_at": "2020-12-10T21:24:32Z",
          "default_branch": "main",
          "description": "My personal website",
          "disabled": false,
          "fork": false,
          "forks_count": 654,
          "full_name": "kentcdodds/kentcdodds.com",
          "homepage": "https://kentcdodds.com",
          "id": 320393623,
          "language": "MDX",
          "license": {
            "key": "other",
            "name": "Other",
            "spdx_id": "NOASSERTION"
          },
          "name": "kentcdodds.com",
          "node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkzMjAzOTM2MjM=",
          "open_issues_count": 4,
          "owner": {
            "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1500684?v=4",
            "id": 1500684,
            "login": "kentcdodds",
            "type": "User",
            "url": "https://github.com/kentcdodds"
          },
          "private": false,
          "pushed_at": "2026-05-20T20:16:24Z",
          "size": 53677,
          "stars_count": 2485,
          "topics": [
            "kentcdodds"
          ],
          "updated_at": "2026-05-21T16:43:37Z",
          "url": "https://github.com/kentcdodds/kentcdodds.com",
          "visibility": "public",
          "watchers_count": 2485
        }
      ],
      "success": true
    },
    "platform": "github",
    "resourceStatus": "AVAILABLE",
    "usage": {
      "billingStatus": "UNKNOWN"
    }
  },
  "msg": null,
  "time": "2026-01-01 00:00:00",
  "traceId": null,
  "ts": "0"
}

Response fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`code`	`integer`	required	0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error.
`cost`	`string`	required	Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests.
`data`	`any`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`msg`	`string \| null`	required	Msg value used by this API operation.
`time`	`string`	required	Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.
`traceId`	`string \| null`	required	Trace id value used by this API operation.
`ts`	`string`	required	Epoch milliseconds.

Any of option 1 — requires platform, resourceStatus, data, usage

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`object`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`data.data`	`object`	required	Data value used by this API operation.
`data.platform`	`string`	required	Platform value used by this API operation.
`data.resourceStatus`	`string`	required	Resource status value used by this API operation.
`data.usage`	`object`	required	Usage value used by this API operation.

Any of option 2

Name	Type	Required	Description
`data`	`null`	required	Data value used by this API operation.

Responses

Code	Description
200	Default HTTP response for both success and many business errors. Only outer JSON code 0 indicates success or asynchronous acceptance; inspect data for the result.
429	Execution admission rate limit; honor Retry-After when present.
503	Execution admission is temporarily unavailable; honor Retry-After when present.
Opt-in	X-Nexscope-Http-Status: semantic maps controller-handled business errors to HTTP status on run and task routes. Pre-authentication failures, such as a missing API key (code 11209), may still return HTTP 200 before this mapping. Always check the outer JSON code; malformed requests and infrastructure failures may also return non-200 HTTP responses.

Data source, freshness, and limitations

Source, freshness, coverage, rate limits, and estimation notes are not specified in this API definition unless they appear in the request or response field documentation above. Do not assume official marketplace data or real-time freshness when it is not explicitly documented.

Step 1 of 2 · Connect your MCP client

MCP

V2 recommended

Connect remote agents through the standard MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP endpoint. Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE, or an API key for compatibility.

POST https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-11-25
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication

OAuth clients request the mcp:tools scope. The endpoint's 401 response advertises protected-resource metadata for authorization discovery.

Step 2 of 2 · Call the tool

Call a tool

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "tool-call-1",
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "social_github_user_repositories",
    "arguments": {
      "handle": "torvalds"
    }
  }
}

Legacy MCP v1

Existing API-key clients can continue using the compatibility endpoint. New integrations should use MCP v2.

GET / POST /mcp/legacy

What can you do with this API?

Data explained and practical use cases

AI Guide

Question

What data can GitHub Repositories provide, and how might I use it?

AI answer

Retrieves a user's public repositories with repo metadata like description, language, stars, forks, topics, license, visibility, default branch, and timestamps. Pass username, handle, or url. Supports pagination with cursor, plus GitHub's type, sort, and direction parameters.

Data category	Documented fields	How to use them
Request	`url`, `cursor`, `sort`, `direction`, `type`	Provide the required identifiers, filters, or paging inputs listed in the API document.
Response	`data.data`, `data.platform`, `data.resourceStatus`	Inspect returned values and source references; availability depends on the request and upstream source.

Review GitHub Repositories.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve GitHub Repositories for [public URL]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.”
Collect a Bounded Set of Results.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve GitHub Repositories for [public URL] across at most two pages within my approved credit budget. Use only the continuation information actually returned, with the same query and filters. Stop at the documented page limit, an absent continuation, an end indicator or a repeated page. Keep source references and report that the collection is bounded, not exhaustive.”
Prioritize Results for Review.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve GitHub Repositories for [public URL] using [my preferred documented sort order]. Preserve the source order and identify pinned or promoted items if the response labels them. Do not infer a platform-wide ranking from this returned sample.”
Build a Focused Shortlist.
- Prompt example: “Retrieve GitHub Repositories for [public URL], narrowed by [my choices among this tool’s documented filters]. Apply only supported options and combinations, retain the selected scope with the returned items, and do not invent missing classifications, currency or units.”

These are suggested workflows, not completed lookups. Report missing, restricted, or partial data explicitly; verify the live response before making a decision.

Online test

Execute the current API with your API key and JSON payload. Online tests use this site's configured API environment; the Endpoint and copyable examples use the public integration address.

One request fetches one page. Copy nextCursor into cursor, or nextPage into page (1–11 for Reels), then run manually. Repeated requests may purchase data again. Completed lookups have a minimum charge of 10 credits, including cached, no-caption, private, restricted and not-found results. Resource status and actual billing status are independent; null credits are unknown, never free. Check usage.billingStatus, usage.chargedCredits and API usage records for the actual charge.

Try it

Send a real request with the same contract shown in the reference.

Endpoint

/social/github/user/repositories

MCP method

social_github_user_repositories

API key*

JSON payload*

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://api.nexscope.ai/social/github/user/repositories \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nk-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "handle": "torvalds" }'

Request estimate: Estimating…Usage based. The final charge depends on actual usage. Estimating does not run the API or charge credits.API usage records

Response

No response yet. Run the request to see the response here.

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