I wanted a simple way to showcase the top contributors across all my GitHub repositories directly on my GitHub profile README.

Something like contrib.rocks, but across all repositories..

Surprisingly, I couldn't really find a clean solution for it.

Most existing tools were either:

repo-specific

difficult to self-host

dependent on live GitHub API scraping

heavily rate limited

or just abandoned

So I built one.

🏆 Top Contributors API

Website:

https://top-contributors-api.vercel.app/

How it looks like:

🤔 Why I Built It

Originally, I just wanted this for my own GitHub profile.

Something simple:

aggregate contributors across all repos

render avatars nicely

auto-update

easy to embed

no maintenance headaches

I assumed someone had already built it.

Apparently not.

Or at least not in the way I wanted.

So this became one of those:

“Fine, I'll build it myself.”

projects.

⚠️ The Real Problem Wasn't the Image

Rendering the image itself was easy.

The painful part was:

iterating through…