Create Endpoint to receive an user to get some user information - For Gitlab

[rafamarts]

The informations:

• Total stars the user has in their repos
• Total commits the user did
• Total PRs the user did
• Total issues the user opened
• Quantity of repos the user contributed to

[ramonfsk]

Implementing this query in Gitlab with all this information is not yet possible because the structure is different from Github. There are also limitations in the Gitlab API itself, which returns only minimal information from a user.

Documentation link: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/users.html#list-users

Do you have any suggestions to work around this problem?

[ramonfsk]

After extensive research in the Gitlab API documentation, I found a way to obtain information such as the number of stars a user received in his repository or the number of forks using a cross between user x projects.

However, there is a good discussion about this approach, as I believe it is a very big job to get this information from a platform that does not have the same Open Source purpose as Github.