GitHub Faces: Curated Avatars & Profiles

"Explore the faces behind GitHub. Discover the people shaping open-source."

Explore and showcase the top GitHub user avatars in a modern, interactive grid. This project fetches, caches, and displays real GitHub profiles with up-to-date avatars and stats.

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🚀 Features

• Dynamic fetching of GitHub users via the API
• Secure avatar downloads and cache management
• Responsive HTML grid with Bootstrap
• Real user filtering (type: User)
• Automatic avatar updates
• RSS feed for new faces
• Modern, clean design
• Pre-commit hooks for code quality (black, isort)
• XSS-safe Jinja2 templates

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🌐 Live Previews

• View the site

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⚡ Site Quickstart

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/john-bampton/john-bampton.github.io.git
   cd john-bampton.github.io

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -e .

3. Run the fetcher:

   APP_ENV=test python fetch.py

   
   ^{Tip: Setting APP_ENV=test will fetch only 20 users for fast testing. Omit this variable to fetch 400 users (default, production mode).}

4. Open the grid:

   docs/index.html

⚙️ Configuration

• TARGET_USERS: Number of GitHub users to fetch (default: 400, or 20 in test mode)
• MAX_EXTRA_PAGES: Extra pages to fetch if needed (default: 2)
• Set APP_ENV=test for test mode (fetches 20 users)

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🖼️ Screenshots

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🛠️ Development & Quality

• Code formatted with black and isort
• Pre-commit hooks: see .pre-commit-config.yaml
• Configs in pyproject.toml
• Linting: flake8, pylint, yamllint, isort, black

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📦 RSS Feed & Sitemap

• RSS feed generated at docs/feed.xml

• Sitemap generated at docs/sitemap.xml

• Both are auto-generated when you run render.py

• RSS feed follows RSS 2.0 format and is loaded in your HTML via: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="John Bampton RSS Feed" href="/feed.xml">

• Sitemap follows the standard XML sitemap protocol for search engines and is referenced in robots.txt:

  Sitemap: https://john-bampton.github.io/sitemap.xml
  

• Subscribe for new updates and enjoy better SEO!

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome PRs, issues, and suggestions! Add a ⭐, fork, or help improve the grid and features.

Code Quality Reminder:

• Always run pre-commit run --all-files before pushing or opening a pull request. This ensures your code is auto-formatted and passes all checks.

• If you don't have pre-commit installed, run:

  pip install pre-commit
  pre-commit install

  This sets up the hooks for your local repo.

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📝 License

MIT License © 2025 John Bampton & Seyyed Ali Mohammadiyeh (Max Base)