Avatar/details from Github username

[GarySiu]

We should ask for a user's github username. We can easily get their details from this endpoint:

https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu

Which gives us a JSON response like this:

{
"login": "GarySiu",
"id": 13659533,
"avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13659533?v=3",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu",
"html_url": "https://github.com/GarySiu",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/GarySiu/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false,
"name": "Gary Siu",
"company": null,
"blog": null,
"location": null,
"email": null,
"hireable": null,
"bio": null,
"public_repos": 44,
"public_gists": 0,
"followers": 6,
"following": 7,
"created_at": "2015-08-05T11:58:20Z",
"updated_at": "2016-07-03T11:09:48Z"
}

This doesn't require oauth or any kind of authentication. Other potentially interesting fields from the response include their public email, github url, hireable status and company.

[chris-alexander]

I agree, and it should match your FCC username which is also helpful.