GitHub Portfolio API

A .NET Core Web API application that connects to a developer's GitHub account and displays their public portfolio in a structured and customizable way.

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✨ Project Overview

This application fetches data from your GitHub account and displays information about your repositories. It also supports public repository search.

Key Features:

• Connects to a personal GitHub account
• Displays personal repositories with:
  • Programming languages used
  • Date of last commit
  • Number of stars ⭐
  • Number of pull requests
  • Link to repository
• Public GitHub search:
  • By repository name
  • By language
  • By GitHub username

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🧱 Project Structure

• GitHubPortfolio.Service – A Class Library project that handles communication with GitHub via Octokit.
• GitHubPortfolio.Api – The Web API project that exposes the endpoints.

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🛠 Technologies Used

• ASP.NET Core 6 Web API
• Octokit.NET
• In-Memory Caching
• Dependency Injection
• Options Pattern
• Scrutor (for decorator pattern)

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🔐 Configuration & Security

Create a GitHub Personal Access Token

To access private account data, create a personal access token on GitHub.
Guide: Creating a personal access token

Store token securely using secrets.json (during development):

dotnet user-secrets init
dotnet user-secrets set "GitHub:Username" "your-username"
dotnet user-secrets set "GitHub:Token" "your-token"