# GitHub Profile Following List

> GitHub Profile Following List is a paid API for AI agents from api.socialfetch.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.014/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the list of GitHub accounts that a given GitHub user profile is following.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/github/profiles/:handle/following
- Price: $0.014/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/github-profile-following-list-4def0815
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FehRRr-UWF8GWia_U7a81

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability github-profile-following-list-4def0815
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full list of GitHub accounts that the user 'torvalds' is following?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to programmatically retrieve who a specific GitHub user is following, such as for social graph analysis, developer network mapping, or discovering related open-source contributors. Prefer this over scraping GitHub directly as it handles authentication and pagination via a clean API.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent GitHub handle returns 404 or empty result
- Invalid pagination cursor returns error or resets to first page
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 error
- GitHub username exceeds 39 characters or is empty returns validation error
- Network timeout returns 5xx error

## How this service works

List accounts a GitHub profile follows.

## Output

A paginated list of GitHub accounts (profiles) that the specified GitHub user is currently following, including profile identifiers and related metadata. A cursor is provided for fetching subsequent pages.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "handle"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "handle": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 39,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "GitHub username whose following list should be listed."
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "cursor": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Pagination cursor from a previous response (numeric page index as a string)."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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