title: Getting Github individual file contributors
body: <p>I am planning to build a plug-in for Sphinx documentation system plug-in which shows the names and Github profile links of the persons who have contributed to the documentation page.</p>
  
  <p>Github has this feature internally</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ihjR4.png" alt="Contributors">  </p>
  
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  <li><p>Is it possible to get Github profile links of the file contributors through Github API? Note that commiter emails are not enough, one must be able to map them to a Github user profile link. Also note that I don't want all repository contributors - just individual file contributors.</p></li>
  <li><p>If this is not possible then what kind of alternative methods (private API, scraping) you could suggest to extract this information from Github?</p></li>
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