Developer Fame Index

Read-only JSON

API

Public endpoints for developer receipts, rankings, snapshots, and archive coverage. No authentication is required for read access.

public

Access

JSON

Format

live

Caching

9

Endpoints

Base URL

https://developerfame.comMethodology
GET/api/developers/[username]

Developer report

Returns one developer lookup with status, profile data, receipt trail, provenance, archive start, and summary metrics.

statusdeveloperreceiptsprovenancesummaryarchiveStart

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/developers/ruvnet
Open endpoint
GET/api/hall-of-fame

Hall of Fame

Returns the top 100 ranked developers by active trending days, appearances, and fame score.

developerappearancesactiveTrendingDayspeakRanklanguageswindowsscore

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/hall-of-fame
Open endpoint
GET/api/snapshots/latest

Latest snapshots

Returns the latest capture attempts with status, target, source URL, provenance, entry count, and parsed developers.

observedAtsourceUrlprovenancesinceWindowlanguagestatusentryCountentries

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/snapshots/latest
Open endpoint
GET/api/status

Archive status

Returns live archive health, latest successful capture, expected snapshots, backfill health, target registry health, target counts, and today's failures.

statuslatestSuccessfulAtcapturedTodayexpectedTodayfailedTodaytargetCounttargetHealthbackfill

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/status
Open endpoint
GET/api/coverage

Coverage

Returns daily archive coverage with expected, captured, successful, partial, failed, missed, and ratio values.

datecapturedsuccessfulpartialfailedmissedexpectedMinimumcoverageRatio

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/coverage
Open endpoint
GET/api/badge/[username]

Embeddable badge

Returns a README-friendly SVG badge for one developer lookup.

image/svg+xmlrankreceipt countobserved status

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/badge/ruvnet
Open endpoint
GET/api/backfill/wayback

Wayback discovery

Searches Internet Archive captures for GitHub Trending Developers pages and returns parsed, unconfirmed backfill candidates.

querysearchedAtcandidatesmatchedEntriesentriesPreview

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/backfill/wayback?username=ruvnet&window=daily&limit=3
Open endpoint
GET/api/backfill/status

Backfill status

Returns Wayback import totals, live-vs-archive split, latest imported snapshot, and latest archived observation.

statustotalslatestImportedlatestArchived

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/backfill/status
Open endpoint
GET/api/search-demand

Search demand

Returns aggregated anonymous username demand to help prioritize historical recovery and future capture work.

generatedAtdemand

Request

curl https://developerfame.com/api/search-demand?limit=10
Open endpoint

Contract notes

Evidence rules apply

API responses expose stored observations. Wayback discovery is exploratory and does not count as a confirmed receipt until imported into the archive with provenance.

Example

Fetch a receipt trail

curl https://developerfame.com/api/developers/ruvnet