Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles (opens in new tab)

This is already more popular than I thought, the queue of profile requests (and AWS SQS) contains already more than 10 users, at this point any new user user coming will have the sensation that nothing happens when they want to get a profile.

I didn't expect to reach this point so fast (thanks!). I'll work on improving this right after this wave of new users. For now, just making sure that you all get your profile.

I'm the guy fixing the typos in everybody's README :)

Hi OP, seems nice but "Get my profile" seems to attempt to load but never gets done. Github username: franciscop. Slashdot effect? My profile is weird? Been coding for ~8 years OSS in Github and I've got a quite public profile [1], so I might have quite a bit of data there.

[1] http://git-awards.com/users/franciscop

Thanks, my gh profile has become utterly useless due to overload.

> Could you make this work for gitlab, bitbucket and maybe even just regular old git repos as well?"

Yes totally. Although we currently think that the best for the community is GitHub improving their GitHub profiles making ghuser.io obsolete. Right now we'd rather do this with GitHub and not against GitHub. But we don't know how much GitHub is willing to help us. (We need changes to the GitHub APIs for ghuser.io to be scalable.)

> private repo

Yea we could do that as well. Give permission to our public key and we're good to go.

> why you would build this if you don't work at github?

Because Aurelien (OP) wanted/needed that so he just built it.

To the both of us it's basically a fun experiment.

Also for me it's cool because we use the web framework Reframe (https://github.com/reframejs/reframe) which I'm currently building.

Isn't 200 requests in an hour ... just three requests per minute? What is this service doing?

Would it be practical to use puppeteer / headless chrome from within a Google Cloud Function to do this? Then you could do literally millions of profiles per hour. The only requirement is that it never takes more than 540 seconds for any one profile, and that you could work around if you write in the ability to export the execution state and send it off to a new function invocation if you are close to the deadline. This seems like a much easier problem if you can get out of VPS land and into lambda/cloud functions since its something like $0.00001 per invocation.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-headl...

You may want to delete my profile request, I have somewhere between 50k and 60k repositories and it tends to crash services. (user: sethwoodworth)

Can we clone the repo and run it locally on my own profile? I arrived late..

Just signed up, love it! Your https://github.com/sourcerer-io/hall-of-fame is great too!

ghuser.io contributor here.

We talked with GitHub already. They think that what we are doing is cool and we agreed to tell them our roadmap and they tell us theirs.

We would be glad if GitHub copies us.

hopefully we'll get back soon with a scalable system and you'll be able to try it out :)

We're working on serving all the requests that came in before we disabled onboarding (about 200 requests). If you give me your github username I can tell you if you're part of them :)

Code-wise it is fully automated. But it's slow and it doesn't scale. We have to spin up new servers manually. As OP said, we'll need to make changes for ghuser.io to be scalable. Ideally GitHub adds an API that lists all your contribs. Which is (obviously) not in our hands but we are talking with GitHub.

It's cheeply automated to handle 10 profile requests per day, which is more than what we got in the past few months. So now we're giving it some human help and we'll have to rethink the system.

What is your username? I'll cancel your request, thanks!