{"id":33433,"date":"2025-04-09T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-built-an-api-that-helps-find-developers-based-on-real-github-contributions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:27:32","slug":"i-built-an-api-that-helps-find-developers-based-on-real-github-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/i-built-an-api-that-helps-find-developers-based-on-real-github-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"I Built An API That Helps Find Developers Based On Real GitHub Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey folks,<\/p>\n<p>I recently built <a href=\"https:\/\/gitmatcher.com\/\">GitMatcher<\/a> \u2013 an <a href=\"https:\/\/rapidapi.com\/remote-skills-remote-skills-default\/api\/gitmatch-api\">API <\/a>(and a SaaS tool) that helps you <strong>discover developers based on their actual GitHub activity<\/strong>, not just their profile bios or followers.<\/p>\n<p>It analyzes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repositories<\/li>\n<li>Commit history<\/li>\n<li>Languages used<\/li>\n<li>Contribution patterns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The goal is to <strong>identify skilled developers based on real code<\/strong>, so teams, recruiters, or open source maintainers can find people who are actually active and solid at what they do.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into scraping, dev hiring, talent mapping, or building dev-focused tools, I\u2019d love your feedback. Also open to sharing a sample dataset if anyone wants to explore this further.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Affectionate-Olive80\"> \/u\/Affectionate-Olive80 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1jv9ion\/i_built_an_api_that_helps_find_developers_based\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1jv9ion\/i_built_an_api_that_helps_find_developers_based\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-33433 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='33433' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-33433 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-33433 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks, I recently built GitMatcher \u2013 an API (and a SaaS tool) that helps you discover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}