GFG-Stats-API

A robust RESTful API to fetch and display GeeksForGeeks statistics for users, built with FastAPI.

Hosted at gfg-stats.tashif.codes

Interactive Dashboard

The API now features a rich, interactive dashboard that you can use to explore GeeksForGeeks user profiles directly in your browser.

• Live User Stats: Enter any GFG username to get up-to-date statistics.
• Visualized Data: See problem-solving stats visualized in a clean, readable bar chart.
• Detailed Profile: View key profile information like coding score, institute rank, and streaks in a modern card-based layout.
• Seamless API Documentation: The dashboard is integrated with the API documentation, so you can explore the data and the API in one place.

Features

• Retrieve user's solved problems count (school, basic, easy, medium, hard)
• Get detailed submission statistics (all the solved prolems and history)
• View coding scores and practice points
• Track performance over time
• Get any users profile data
• Easy integration with other applications
• Rate-limited endpoints to prevent abuse

API Endpoints

Get User Statistics

GET /{username}

Retrieves the basic statistics for a GeeksForGeeks user.

Parameters

• username (path): GeeksForGeeks username

Response

Returns user's GeeksForGeeks statistics including:

• Total solved problems (by difficulty)
• Solved problem counts by difficulty level (School, Basic, Easy, Medium, Hard)

Example Response

{
	"userName": "example_user",
	"totalProblemsSolved": 150,
	"School": 20,
	"Basic": 35,
	"Easy": 50,
	"Medium": 30,
	"Hard": 15
}

Get User Profile

GET /{username}/profile

Retrieves detailed profile information for a user.

Parameters

• username (path): GeeksForGeeks username

Response

Returns:

• Profile information
• Institution details
• Coding metrics
• Streak information

Example Response

{
	"userName": "example_user",
	"fullName": "Example User",
	"profilePicture": "https://example.com/profile.jpg",
	"institute": "Example University",
	"instituteRank": "10",
	"currentStreak": "5",
	"maxStreak": "15",
	"codingScore": 1200,
	"monthlyScore": 250,
	"totalProblemsSolved": 150
}

Get Solved Problems

GET /{username}/solved-problems

Retrieves detailed problem solving statistics for a user.

Parameters

• username (path): GeeksForGeeks username

Response

Returns:

• Total problems solved
• Problems solved by difficulty
• Detailed list of solved problems with links and difficulty levels

Example Response

{
	"userName": "example_user",
	"totalProblemsSolved": 150,
	"problemsByDifficulty": {
		"school": 20,
		"basic": 35,
		"easy": 50,
		"medium": 30,
		"hard": 15
	},
	"problems": [
		{
			"question": "Two Sum",
			"questionUrl": "https://practice.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/two-sum",
			"difficulty": "easy"
		},
		{
			"question": "Merge Two Sorted Lists",
			"questionUrl": "https://practice.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/merge-two-sorted-lists",
			"difficulty": "medium"
		}
		// ... more problems
	]
}

API Documentation

The API documentation is integrated with an interactive dashboard. Visit the root URL when the server is running:

GET /

For standard API documentation interfaces, you can use:

For Swagger UI documentation:

GET /docs

or

GET /api-docs

Error Handling

The API returns appropriate HTTP status codes:

• 200 OK: Request successful
• 404 Not Found: User not found
• 503 Service Unavailable: Failed to connect to GeeksForGeeks
• 504 Gateway Timeout: Request to GeeksForGeeks timed out

Error responses follow this format:

{
	"error": true,
	"message": "error description",
	"status_code": 404,
	"endpoint": "stats"
}

Usage Examples

Python

import requests

username = "gfgcoder"
response = requests.get(f"https://gfg-stats.tashif.codes/{username}")
data = response.json()

print(f"{username} has solved {data['totalProblemsSolved']} problems!")

JavaScript

fetch(`https://gfg-stats.tashif.codes/${username}`)
	.then((response) => response.json())
	.then((data) => console.log(data));

Installation

Setup

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/tashifkhan/GFG-Stats-API.git
   cd GFG-Stats-API
   

2. Create a virtual environment

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
   

3. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   pip install gunicorn
   

4. Start the server

   python app.py
   

The API will be available at http://localhost:58353.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Documentation

Full API documentation is available at / endpoint when the server is running.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.