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# Github Contact Card Section
Extends the contact card in the sidebar to show public repos of the people you email.
Uses GitHub's public API to look up a GitHub user based on their email address,
and then displays public repos and their stars.
This example is a good starting point for plugins that want to display data from
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external sources in the sidebar. If you want to see some more advanced plugins, have a look through [all the internal plugins, here on Github ](https://github.com/nylas/N1/tree/master/internal_packages ).
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< img src = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nylas/N1/master/internal_packages/github-contact-card/screenshot.png" >
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#### Install this plugin
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1. Download and run N1
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2. From the menu, select `Developer > Install a Plugin Manually...`
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The dialog will default to this examples directory. Just choose the
package to install it!
> When you install packages, they're moved to `~/.nylas/packages`,
> and N1 runs `apm install` on the command line to fetch dependencies
> listed in the package's `package.json`
