OrbitConnect — Unified Developer Profile Aggregator

Enter a GitHub username and get back a "passport" — a single stamped profile that pulls together your GitHub repository footprint and your npm package history, so a recruiter or collaborator can see your public open-source presence in one place instead of hopping between sites.

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Features

• Look up any public GitHub account and pull their live profile data
• Auto-checks npm for packages under the same (or a supplied) username
• Passport-style UI with a "stamp" per platform — filled if found, dashed if not
• Aggregate ledger: total repos, total stars, followers, npm package count
• Handles the real edge cases of a public API: unknown usernames (404), rate limiting (403), and network failures, each with a clear message
• Zero dependencies — vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Why no backend?

The GitHub REST API and the npm registry search API both serve public data over plain HTTPS with CORS enabled, so the browser can call them directly — no server needed to proxy requests or hide a key, because none is required for this kind of read-only public data.

Rate limit: unauthenticated GitHub requests are capped at 60 per hour, per IP address, which is fine for personal/portfolio use.

Scope note: GitLab support was left out of v1 because GitLab's public API has inconsistent CORS behavior from the browser — adding it would need a small serverless proxy, which would break the "no backend" premise of this build.

Run it locally

Clone the repo and open index.html in a browser. No build step, no npm install.

git clone https://github.com/arjayb/OrbitConnect.git
cd OrbitConnect
open index.html # or just double-click it

If your browser blocks fetch on the file:// protocol, serve it with any static server instead:

python3 -m http.server 8000
# then visit http://localhost:8000

Deploy to GitHub Pages

1. Push this repo to GitHub.
2. Go to Settings → Pages.
3. Under Build and deployment, set Source to Deploy from a branch, pick main and / (root).
4. Save — your app will be live at https://<your-username>.github.io/OrbitConnect/ within a minute or two.

Project structure

OrbitConnect/
├── index.html # markup
├── style.css # passport UI, stamp states, aggregate ledger
├── script.js # GitHub + npm API calls, passport rendering, ledger totals
└── README.md

Data source

Profile data comes from the public GitHub REST API (/users/{username} and /users/{username}/repos) and the public npm registry search API (maintainer search). No authentication, no API key, no user data is stored — every lookup is a fresh, live request.

License

MIT — use this however you'd like.