---
title: "Get contextual information for a user"
method: GET
path: "/users/{username}/hovercard"
tags: ["users"]
---

# Get contextual information for a user

`GET /users/{username}/hovercard`

Provides hovercard information when authenticated through basic auth or OAuth with the `repo` scope. You can find out more about someone in relation to their pull requests, issues, repositories, and organizations.

The `subject_type` and `subject_id` parameters provide context for the person's hovercard, which returns more information than without the parameters. For example, if you wanted to find out more about `octocat` who owns the `Spoon-Knife` repository via cURL, it would look like this:

```shell
 curl -u username:token
  https://api.github.com/users/octocat/hovercard?subject_type=repository&subject_id=1300192
```

## Path parameters

- `username` string, required

## Query parameters

- `subject_type` 'organization' | 'repository' | 'issue' | 'pull_request'
- `subject_id` string

## Response `200`

Response

- Hovercard — Hovercard
  - `contexts` object[], required
    - `message` string, required
    - `octicon` string, required

## Other responses

- `404` — Resource not found
- `422` — Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

---

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