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Operation github.users_list_followed_by_authenticated_user

Provider route: GET /user/following. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/github with npm, or alter-sdk-github with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GitHubIntegration } from "@alter-ai/github";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GitHubIntegration["users"]["usersListFollowedByAuthenticatedUser"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GitHubIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.users.usersListFollowedByAuthenticatedUser(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_github import GitHubIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GitHubIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.users.users_list_followed_by_authenticated_user(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
query	object	Optional	Additional keys: not allowed
query.per_page	integer	Optional	Default: 30
query.page	integer	Optional	Default: 1

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	array	Root
$[]	Model	Each item	Expand List users — response body — item

Referenced models: List users — response body — item

Schemas

List users — response body — item

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	A GitHub user.
avatar_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
email	JSON	Optional
email (anyOf 1)	string	Alternative
email (anyOf 2)	null	Alternative
events_url	string	Required within parent
followers_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
following_url	string	Required within parent
gists_url	string	Required within parent
gravatar_id	JSON	Required within parent
gravatar_id (anyOf 1)	string	Alternative
gravatar_id (anyOf 2)	null	Alternative
html_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
id	JSON	Required within parent
id (anyOf 1)	integer	Alternative	Format: int64
id (anyOf 2)	string	Alternative	Pattern: ^-?[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?(?:[eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?$
login	string	Required within parent
name	JSON	Optional
name (anyOf 1)	string	Alternative
name (anyOf 2)	null	Alternative
node_id	string	Required within parent
organizations_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
received_events_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
repos_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
site_admin	boolean	Required within parent
starred_at	string	Optional
starred_url	string	Required within parent
subscriptions_url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
type	string	Required within parent
url	string	Required within parent	Format: uri
user_view_type	string	Optional

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: github.users_list_followed_by_authenticated_user. Catalog operation: users/list-followed-by-authenticated-user. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Pinned headers: {"X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2026-03-10", "User-Agent": "Alter", "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json"}

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