Something fishy going on with Github, first the badges and now the public repo API

[abdxdev]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

API

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What's happening?

As some of you already know, badges started disappearing from GitHub profiles. This happened at the same time my repository stopped showing up in the API, so I think these two issues may be related.

Badge issue

Last night I had the following achievement badges on my profile:

• Public Sponsor
• Pull Shark
• YOLO
• Pair Extraordinaire
• Quickdraw
• Starstruck

Now only Public Sponsor still shows up. The rest are completely gone.

Repository missing from API

My repository screenshoots is not appearing in the public repos API:

GET https://api.github.com/users/abdxdev/repos

Every other repo on my account shows up fine — this one is just missing from the response.

Why this matters to me: my portfolio at abdxdev.vercel.app pulls projects directly from this endpoint, so screenshoots is currently invisible on my portfolio.

To reproduce:

1. Open https://api.github.com/users/abdxdev/repos
2. Search for screenshoots
3. It’s not there — all other repos are

Is anyone else experiencing either of these? Given the timing I suspect something happened on GitHub’s end. Would love to know if there’s a fix or if this is being looked into.

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[HamzehAdawi]

@abdxdev Yeah, not sure exactly what is going on but I think in another discussion someone mentioned they are looking into accounts experiencing this and working on a fix. Strangely enough I had the unreleased badges show up on my account and others which I could see of "Heart On Your Sleeve" and "Open Sourcerer" but are since gone.

[abdxdev]

Looks like they fixed the badge issue! From what I heard, the other "newly released" badges are still being tested internally. Not sure why they went live for a bit before being pulled back.

As for the API not returning repos, turns out it was just a pagination thing on my end. The default is 30 results per page, so adding ?per_page=100 to the request fixed it.