gh-profiler 0.5.0

Examine a GitHub user's profile, to help quickly decide how much to invest in their contributions.

gh-profiler

Many of us have received waves of open source contributions where many of the new "contributions" aren't worth engaging with. gh-profiler lets you quickly see a snapshot of the submitter's profile, and recent PR activity.

This meant to give you some quick context about how much to invest in reviewing the PR. It's not meant to give an immediate signal to close the PR or issue.

Running as a tool

If you have uv installed, you can run this as a tool against any GitHub user:

$ uvx gh-profiler <redacted>
GitHub user: <redacted>
  🟡 Account age: 159 days

  🟢 Profile information:
      name: <redacted>
      blog: https://<redacted>.com
      email: info@<redacted>.com
     Empty fields: company, location, bio

  🟢 <redacted> has opened fewer than 10 PRs in the last 21 days.

  🔴 <redacted> has opened 6 new issues in the last 21 days.
     🟢 0 issues have been closed as NOT_PLANNED.
     🔴 6 issues were opened with the same title:
        📋 Documentation Enhancement Suggestion (6)

If you're working in your local project directory, you can simply provide a PR or issue number. The tool will look up the PR or issue, identify the user who opened it, and give a report on that user:

$ uvx gh-profiler 8
Issue #8: Accept a username or an issue/ pr number.
Author: ehmatthes
  🟢 Account age: 5058 days
  ...

Installing and then running

You can also install the project, and then run the bare gh-profiler command:

(.venv) $ pip install gh-profiler
(.venv) $ gh-profiler ehmatthes
GitHub user: ehmatthes
  🟢 Account age: 5058 days
  ...

When you've installed the project, you can also run it as a module:

$ python -m gh_profiler <username>

Concise output

If you want just the simplest summary, you can pass the --concise flag:

$ uvx gh-profiler <redacted> --concise
GitHub user: <redacted>
🟡 Some concerns found with user's profile.
🟢 No concerns found with recent PR activity.
🔴 Significant concerns found with recent issue activity.

For a more detailed report, run `gh-profiler <redacted>`.

GitHub Actions

gh-profiler can write a GitHub Action that will automatically run gh-profiler --concise any time a new PR or issue is opened on your project. The output will be written as a comment on the new PR or issue.

The --generate-workflow flag does this by writing a profile_contributors.yml file to .github/workflows:

$ uvx gh-profiler --generate-workflow
This will generate a GitHub action that will automatically run gh-profiler
whenever someone opens a new issue or PR in your repository. The profile
output will be written as a comment on the issue or PR.

The workflow will be written at the following location:
  /.../.github/workflows/profile_contributors.yml

Are you sure you want to do this? (y/n) y

The new workflow file was written:
  /.../.github/workflows/profile_contributors.yml

To start seeing profiles when new issues and PRs are opened:
- Commit the workflow file to your main branch.
- Push your main branch to GitHub.
  ...

Maintaining

--redact

For live demos and screenshots, you can pass the --redact flag. The username and profile information sections will show "<redacted>" in place of identifying information:

$ uv run gh-profiler 39 --redact
Issue #39: Add a `--redact` flag
Author: <redacted>
  🟢 Account age: 5064 days

  🟢 Profile information:
      name: <redacted>
      blog: <redacted>
      ...

Add/ modify a requirement

• Add or modify a requirement by modifying pyproject.toml, or running uv add <package>.
• For a dev dependency, run uv add --dev <package>.
• Then run uv lock.

Running tests

$ uv run pytest

Profiling

$ uv run python -m cProfile -s cumtime -m gh_profiler ehmatthes > profile.txt

New releases

Update changelog and bump version, then:

$ uv lock
# Commit all changes.
$ git tag vX.Y.Z
$ git push origin vX.Y.Z
$ rm -rf dist/*
$ uv build
$ uv publish