.env.example

# ============================================================
# github-readme-stats — Environment Variables
# ============================================================
# Copy this file to .env and fill in your values.
# The .env file is gitignored — your secrets stay local only.
# ============================================================

# ── Required ────────────────────────────────────────────────
# GitHub Personal Access Tokens (PATs) used to call the
# GitHub GraphQL/REST APIs.  Add up to N PATs; the retryer
# cycles through them when one hits the rate-limit.
PAT_1=
# PAT_2=
# PAT_3=

# ── Optional – server ───────────────────────────────────────
# Port the local Express dev-server listens on (default 9000).
PORT=9000

# Node environment – use "development" to disable caching
# and see live API responses without stale SVG data.
NODE_ENV=development

# ── Optional – caching ──────────────────────────────────────
# Override the default Cache-Control max-age (in seconds).
# Range accepted: 21600 – 86400.  Ignored in development mode.
# CACHE_SECONDS=21600

# ── Optional – access control ───────────────────────────────
# Comma-separated list of GitHub usernames allowed to use
# this instance (leave blank to allow everyone).
# WHITELIST=username1,username2

# Comma-separated GitHub usernames allowed to fetch gists.
# GIST_WHITELIST=username1,username2

# Comma-separated repos to exclude from language stats.
# EXCLUDE_REPO=user/repo1,user/repo2

# ── Optional – star fetching ────────────────────────────────
# Set to "true" to paginate through all star pages instead
# of stopping at the first page (may increase API usage).
# FETCH_MULTI_PAGE_STARS=false