GitHub Card Generator
Type a username or owner/repo and get a printable, postable card for your GitHub presence: avatar, bio, stars, forks or followers pulled from the GitHub API as you hit Build, plus a QR code on the card that opens the profile or repository. The request goes from your browser straight to GitHub — nothing passes through this site. Download SVG or PNG, then paste the README embed code.
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What a GitHub card is — and what it is not
Developers decorate their profile README with cards that show who they are and what they ship: stats bars, streak graphs, contact plates. Most of those are live widgets re-rendered on every page view. This is the other kind: a real image you generate, commit, and embed — it renders everywhere a README image renders, including exports and mirrors, and it is a snapshot: regenerate when the story changes.
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What happens when you press Build
Your browser asks GitHub’s public API for the profile or repository (the same request any GitHub page visit makes), reads name, bio and counts from the reply, and draws the card — text, shapes and QR — locally, then converts the avatar into embedded data so the PNG export stays clean. This site never sees your input, stores nothing, and puts no watermark you cannot delete; the small "made with QRCard AI" credit on the card and the one-line comment in the embed code are the whole of it.
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From download to README in three moves
Download github-card.png. Commit it into your profile repository — many people keep a /cards folder — and paste the embed code the tool copied for you. The image links to your profile or repo; the comment line credits this generator and you can delete it. Width 600 renders the card crisply in the README column without overflowing.
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Why there is a QR on a card that lives online
Because the card does not stay online. Put it in slide decks, PDF résumés, conference posters or a video end-screen and the code is the working half — printed at arm’s length sizes it opens the exact profile or repo the stats were taken from. README-only folks can ignore it; it costs nothing but the quiet zone.
GitHub cards, asked directly
Is it free? Do I need a GitHub or QRCard account?
No account of any kind. The generator runs in your browser against GitHub’s public API — you get the same data any visitor of your profile page sees.
It errored after a few cards — what happened?
GitHub’s unauthenticated API allows roughly 60 requests per hour per IP address. You hit that ceiling, not a paywall; wait it out or run from another connection.
Do the stats update themselves in my README?
No — a committed image is a snapshot, and pretending otherwise would sell you a live widget you did not get. Regenerate and re-commit when the number that matters moves.
Does anything I type get uploaded here?
Only to GitHub: your browser queries api.github.com for the name you entered, exactly as if you had opened the page. This site receives nothing — no account, no analytics of your input, no stored card.
Want the repo link as a scannable card for the physical world instead? The GitHub QR code generator makes printable cards in the same click.
GitHub API fields and rate limits are GitHub’s and can change; when a lookup fails, the error line on this page tells you which case you hit.