How to have an awesome GitHub profile ?

Get Started!

Customize your Readme.md on your GitHub profile to make it look attractive by following the steps in this simple walkthrough below. I have also provided some cool elements to spice things up!

If your GitHub profile looks something like THIS 👇...

Turn it to something like THIS 👇 or even cooler!

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Follow these steps-

1. Create a new Repository

• Go to 👉 repo.new
• Type the repository name, which should be same as your username. This creates a secret repository.
• Make the repository Public.
• Check the box - Add a README file.
• Then click Create Repository.

2. Update README file

• The initial file looks something like this with a simple message.
• You can edit the file by clicking on the Edit README button on the right.

• As you can see, the file is provided with a template made using markdown. You can edit it according to your preference.
• Click on Commit changes.You can also add a commit message.

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3. ✨Beautify your profile!✨

There's a lot of open source elements available to achieve a beautiful Profile page. Here's a list of resources to choose from!

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GitHub README Stats

anuraghazra / github-readme-stats

⚡ Dynamically generated stats for your github readmes

GitHub Readme Stats

Get dynamically generated GitHub stats on your READMEs!

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Features

• GitHub Stats Card
  • Hiding individual stats
  • Showing additional individual stats
  • Showing icons
  • Themes
  • Customization
• GitHub…

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GitHub profile Trophy

ryo-ma / github-profile-trophy

🏆 Add dynamically generated GitHub Stat Trophies on your readme

GitHub Profile Trophy

🏆 Add dynamically generated GitHub Stat Trophies on your README

You can use this service for free. I'm looking for sponsors to help us keep up with this service❤️

Quick Start

Add the following code to your readme. When pasting the code into your profile's readme, change the ?username= value to your GitHub's username.

[![trophy](https://github-profile-trophy.vercel.app/?username=ryo-ma)](https://github.com/ryo-ma/github-profile-trophy)

Use theme

Add optional parameter of the theme.

[![trophy](https://github-profile-trophy.vercel.app/?username=ryo-ma&theme=onedark)](https://github.com/ryo-ma/github-profile-trophy)

More detail

About Rank

Ranks are SSS SS S AAA AA A B C UNKNOWN SECRET.

Rank	Description
SSS, SS, S	You are at a hard to reach rank. You can brag.
AAA, AA, A	You will reach this rank if you do your best. Let's aim here first.
B, C	You are currently making good progress. Let's aim a bit higher.
UNKNOWN	You have not taken action yet. Let's act first.
SECRET	This rank is very rare. The trophy will not

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Add a header or cover picture

[![MasterHead](your image link)](your GitHub link)

• Custom HEADER generator
• Custom BANNER generator

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Add a floating image or GIF.

  <img align="right" alt="Coding" width="400" src="add your link 
  here">

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Social icons section.

<h3 align="left">Connect with me:</h3>
<p align="left">
<a href="your link" target="blank"><img align="center" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/simple-icons@3.0.1/icons/twitter.svg" alt="" height="30" width="40" /></a>
<a href="your link" target="blank"><img align="center" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/simple-icons@3.0.1/icons/linkedin.svg" alt="" height="30" width="40" /></a>
<a href="your link" target="blank"><img align="center" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/simple-icons@3.0.1/icons/instagram.svg" alt="" height="30" width="40" /></a>
<a href="your link" target="blank"><img align="center" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/simple-icons@3.0.1/icons/youtube.svg" alt="" height="30" width="40" /></a>
</p>

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Languages and tools section.

<h3 align="left">Languages and Tools:</h3>
<p align="left"> <a href="https://www.cprogramming.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/c/c-original.svg" alt="c" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/cpp/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/cplusplus/cplusplus-original.svg" alt="cplusplus" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/css/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/css3/css3-original-wordmark.svg" alt="css3" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.figma.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://www.vectorlogo.zone/logos/figma/figma-icon.svg" alt="figma" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://flutter.dev" target="_blank"> <img src="https://www.vectorlogo.zone/logos/flutterio/flutterio-icon.svg" alt="flutter" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://git-scm.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://www.vectorlogo.zone/logos/git-scm/git-scm-icon.svg" alt="git" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.w3.org/html/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/html5/html5-original-wordmark.svg" alt="html5" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.linux.org/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/linux/linux-original.svg" alt="linux" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.photoshop.com/en" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/photoshop/photoshop-plain.svg" alt="photoshop" width="40" height="40"/> </a> <a href="https://www.python.org" target="_blank"> <img src="https://devicons.github.io/devicon/devicon.git/icons/python/python-original.svg" alt="python" width="40" height="40"/> </a> </p>

More Dev icons

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GitHub streak

1. Copy-paste the markdown below into your GitHub profile README
2. Replace the value after ?user= with your GitHub username

[![GitHub Streak](https://github-readme-streak-stats.herokuapp.com/?user=DenverCoder1)](https://git.io/streak-stats)

Customize it here 👉 Click me!

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Spotify playing

JeffreyCA / spotify-recently-played-readme

Display your recently played Spotify tracks on your GitHub profile README.

Spotify Recently Played README

Display your recently played Spotify tracks on your GitHub profile README. Powered by Vercel.

Check out lastfm-recently-played-readme for a similar integration for Last.fm scrobbles.

Getting Started

Click the button below to connect your Spotify account with the Vercel app. This is needed to access your recently played tracks.

By authorizing the app, you agree to have your Spotify username, access token, and refresh token stored on a secure Firebase database. This is required so you only need to authorize once and the app can automatically refresh access tokens in order to retrieve recent tracks.

You can revoke the app at https://www.spotify.com/account/apps.

After granting permission, just add the following into your README and set the user query parameter to your Spotify username.

![Spotify recently played](https://spotify-recently-played-readme.vercel.app/api?user=jeffreyca16)

Link to Spotify profile

Use the following snippet to make the widget link to your…

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Badges - Shields

![badges1](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6n8fc8zw8pawxveffitx.png)

Languages,tools and social icons badges

More badges

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Readme Typing SVG ⌨️

GitHub repo
Demo

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Views counter

antonkomarev / github-profile-views-counter

It counts how many times your GitHub profile has been viewed. Free cloud micro-service.

GitHub Profile Views Counter

Introduction

Try Ÿ HŸPE service as the more robust and feature rich solution.

GHPVС project is proof of concept. This counter designed to be an analytical instrument for you, but not for people who are visiting your profile It could be used to see profile views dynamics as result of development activity, blogging or taking part in a conference.

It counts how many times your GitHub profile has been viewed and displays them in your profile, for free.

Usage

Cloud solution launched as 100% free experience. Help me cut server costs if you like this service.

If you want to see big numbers in your profile, deploy a standalone solution to draw any views count you want without spamming our server. Everybody knows that any counters could be faked.

A billion fake profile views doesn't make you a very popular person, it makes you a person…

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Blog Post workflow

gautamkrishnar / blog-post-workflow

Show your latest blog posts from any sources or StackOverflow activity or Youtube Videos on your GitHub profile/project readme automatically using the RSS feed

Blog post workflow

How to use

1. Star this repo 😉

2. Go to your repository

3. Add the following section to your README.md file, you can give whatever title you want. Just make sure that you use <!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:START --><!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:END --> in your readme. The workflow will replace this comment with the actual blog post list:

   # Blog posts
   <!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:START -->
   <!-- BLOG-POST-LIST:END -->

4. Create a folder named .github and create a workflows folder inside it, if it doesn't exist.

5. Create a new file named blog-post-workflow.yml with the following contents inside the workflows folder:

   name: Latest blog post workflow
   on
     schedule: # Run workflow automatically
       - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour
     workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the GitHub Actions Workflow page directly
   permissions:
     contents: 

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Add emojis - Markdown Icons

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README Jokes 👀

ABSphreak / readme-jokes

😄 Jokes for your GitHub READMEs

README Jokes

Random programming jokes on your README.

View Demo ● Report Bugs

Usage

Endpoint URL: https://readme-jokes.vercel.app/api

Embed one of these in your README:

<!-- Markdown -->

![Jokes Card](https://readme-jokes.vercel.app/api)

or

<!-- HTML -->
<img src="https://readme-jokes.vercel.app/api" alt="Jokes Card" />

Customization Guide

Customize using ? after /api in the https link, example here with no borders using the hideBorder parameter.

Markdown method: ![Jokes Card](https://readme-jokes.vercel.app/api?hideBorder)

Image method: <img src="https://readme-jokes.vercel.app/api?hideBorder" alt="Jokes Card" />

Both methods will produce the following jokes card without border:
To use multiple parameters use '&' after the first parameter, e.g. ?hideBorder&theme=cobalt&qColor=%23944bcc&aColor=%23bbdb51

will produce a jokes card without border, with cobalt theme, answer color #944bcc and question color #bbdb51 like so:

Parameters Available

• bgColor → Background Color
• borderColor → Border Color
• qColor → Question Color
• aColor → Answer Color
• textColor → Normal text Color
• codeColor → Code…

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README Quotes ❝

PiyushSuthar / github-readme-quotes

🔥 Add Programming Quotes To Your GitHub Readme

Github Readme Quotes

Developer Quotes for your Github Readme.

View Demo · Report Bug

Features ✨

• Dynamic quotes in your GitHub README
• Customize your own quote

Usage ⚡️

Copy the markdown below and paste it in your Github Readme.

[![Readme Quotes](https://quotes-github-readme.vercel.app/api?type=horizontal&theme=dark)](https://github.com/piyushsuthar/github-readme-quotes)

Options

Options	Default	Available
type	vertical	horizontal, vertical
theme	light	dark, chartreuse-dark, radical, merko, gruvbox, tokyonight, algolia, monokai, dracula, nord
quote	-	Customize your quote
author	-	The name of the quote's author
border	false	true, false

Installation and Development 🚀

To get started with developing this app locally, here are the steps:

Install the dependencies for the app using,

pnpm install

And then run the app using:

npx vercel dev

Usage

Vertical

You don't need to add ?type=vertical parameter.

Horizontal

You need to add ?type=horizontal parameter.

Border

You need to add ?border=true parameter.

Light

You don't need to add…

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Dev Metrics

anmol098 / waka-readme-stats

This GitHub action helps to add cool dev metrics to your github profile Readme

Looking For Translation to different languages & Locale #23

Dev Metrics in Readme with added feature flags 🎌

📌✨Awesome Readme Stats

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Are you an early 🐤 or a night 🦉?
When are you most productive during the day?
What are languages you code in?
Let's check out in your profile readme!

Report Bug · Request Feature

Prep Work

1. You need to update the markdown file(.md) with 2 comments. You can refer here for updating it.
2. You'll need a WakaTime API Key. You can get that from your WakaTime Account Settings
   • You can refer here, if you're new to WakaTime
3. You'll need a GitHub API Token with repo and user scope from here if you're running the action to get commit metrics

   enabling the repo scope seems DANGEROUS
   but this GitHub Action only accesses your commit timestamp and lines of code added or deleted in repository you contributed.

   • You can…

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4. ALTERNATIVE WAY!

If you found things overwhelming, not to worry!

Here's how to do it (The Easy Way)

• GitHub profile README generator created by @rahuldkjain

👉(https://rahuldkjain.github.io/gh-profile-readme-generator/)

• GitHub Profilinator

👉Try it
GitHub Repository

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OR

1. You can simply fork someone's repository
   

2. Click the edit icon in the README file
   

3. Copy the code and paste it onto your README file. Of course, you can modify it according to your choice.
   

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5. Here's some inspiration and ideas!

abhisheknaiidu / awesome-github-profile-readme

😎 A curated list of awesome GitHub Profile which updates in real time

Awesome GitHub Profile README

A curated list of awesome Github Profile READMEs

Loved the project? Please consider donating to help it improve!

Contents:

• Categories
  • GitHub Actions 🤖
  • Game Mode 🚀
  • Code Mode 👨🏽‍💻
  • Dynamic Realtime 💫
  • A Little Bit of Everything 😃
  • Descriptive 🗒
  • Simple but Innovative Ones 🤗
  • Typing.. Mode 🎰
  • Anime 👾
  • Minimalistic ✨
  • GIFS 👻
  • Just Images 🎭
  • Badges 🎫
  • Fancy Fonts 🖋
  • Icons 🎯
  • Retro 😎
• Tools
• Articles
• Video Tutorials
• Contribute
• License

Categories

GitHub Actions 🤖

• Abhishek Naidu
• Thomas Guibert
• Brian Douglas
• Shawn Wang
• Simon Willison
• Mike Coutermarsh
• Michael Hoffmann (Mokkapps)
• Athul Cyriac Ajay
• Gautam Krishna R
• Roald Nefs
• Leo
• Dhruv Jain
• Erwin Lejeune
• Jessica Lim
• 侑夕-Tw93
• liununu
• Filippo Rossi (qu4k)
• Moe Poi ~
• Elon Tang (blackcater)
• Stanley Lim (Spiderpig86)
• Akshit Garg (gargakshit)
• Yufan You
• Danny Koppenhagen
• Vidya Bhandary
• Rao Hai
• Jatin Rao
• teoxoy
• Aral Roca
• codeSTACKr
• itgoyo
• lifeparticle

Game Mode 🚀

• Tim Burgan
• Ben Sampica
• …

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EddieHubCommunity / awesome-github-profiles

List of GitHub profiles that have awesome customisation, that you can use for inspiration

Note: This repository is not included in the Hacktoberfest event, as it is for practice only!

Awesome GitHub profiles

List of GitHub profiles that have awesome customization, that you can use for inspiration.
Feel free to submit a pull request with your suggestions for awesome GitHub profiles.

How can I add my GitHub profile? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

1. Create an issue, with the title as your name, and in the description put a screenshot of the customised GitHub profile page (copy the generated image URL, this will be needed in the next step). The URL will look something like this https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/awesome-github-profiles/assets/51878265/ee31b832-d549-4df9-8ffe-24419f9d0e46

2. Fork the project, using the top right corner button, that states fork

3. Create a file named your-username.json in the directory profiles with the following content.

Your entry should be similar to this example:

{
  "image": "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/624760/91057573-48531300-e61f-11ea-9e13-2d7384e42000.png"
  "issueId": 66,
  "name": "Eddie Jaoude",
  

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Comments

[Guillaume Falourd]

Great article! Thanks for sharing 👏

Here is a suggestion to add to the list: github.com/Platane/snk 🟩 ⬜️

It allows you to generate a SVG file with a snake eating your contribution grid on your README profile, using Github Actions 🐍

You can check the result on my profile if you want to get an idea of how it works: github.com/GuillaumeFalourd/Guilla... 🙂

[Supritha]

Cool! Will add it soon :)

[enlguy]

Hmm.. except doesn't seem you can actually play it, and it just makes it more difficult to determine how active you've been...

[Dan Jones]

GitHub profiles are becoming the new MySpace profile.

[Adam Mikulasev]

Awesome article @supritha !

It received a super positive reaction in our discord community The Fast Tracked Programmer and has been bookmarked :D.

Keep up the great work!

[Supritha]

That's really great! Thank you :)

[Shashwat Verma]

This is so awesome! I started using this feature lately, and I like it very much.
Also I saw some tuts on how to get the 3d commit chart on your profile.

here it is - dev.to/github/view-your-github-con...

thanks @supritha

[Supritha]

Thank you :)
Wow that's really cool.

[jibijames]

good Information

[Supritha]

Thank you :)

[yuannBG]

nice

[Jugal Kishore]

Good information, I was gonna complain about no header/banner generator link then gladly I found them!

[Jayanth PSY]

Can you pls share it.

[Supritha]

Yes, I'm glad I found it too.

[Amin M. Boulouma]

You might also like: How to Master Python Fast and easy: A complete simple Tutorial based on the officiel documentation

[Varghese Jose]

Good article

[Supritha]

Thank you :)

[Tulio Leao]

Great article @supritha ! I want to share it with the Brazilian community, would you mind if I translated the article on my account (giving you full credit)?

[Supritha]

Sure, go ahead!

[Tulio Leao]

Well, here it is, hope it also helps some of my compatriots who don't know much of English. Thanks for allowing it!

Como criar um perfil incrível no GitHub?

Tulio Leao ・ Jun 17 ・ 6 min read

#github #markdown #opensource #git

[Falguni Sarkar]

Check this Spotify now playing feature too.
Link 👉 github.com/novatorem/novatorem

It's actually cool and if you wanna see my repo style, click here 👉 github.com/lostgirljourney