You can access the GitHub Repository Stats Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "repositories": ["apify/crawlee"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("67-labs/github-repo-stats-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Repo Stats Scraper: Stars, Forks, Issues, Releases API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GitHub Repository Stats Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

GitHub Repository Stats Scraper API in JavaScript

GitHub Repository Stats Scraper API through CLI

GitHub Repository Stats Scraper OpenAPI definition

GitHub Repository Stats Scraper API

GitHub Repository README Scraper

parseforge/github-repo-readme-scraper

Scrape README content from GitHub repositories by search query or direct URL. Returns full Markdown body, rendered text, stars, language, license, and topics for each repo.

ParseForge

GitHub Repository Stats & Info Lookup (Free)

fit_melon/github-repo-stats-lookup

Get stars, forks, watchers, open issues, language, license, topics, dates and latest release for any list of GitHub repos. Official REST API, optional token, clean JSON/CSV export. Free — you only pay your Apify usage.

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GitHub Repo Scanner

jedii_123/github-repo-scanner

Keyless GitHub repository search with quality filters: topic, language, minimum stars, sort by stars/updated/newest. Output: one JSON item per repo (name, description, stars, forks, open issues, license, language, updated_at, url).

jedi solana

GitHub Latest Release Watchlist Monitor

technicaldost/github-release-watchlist-monitor

Re-check public GitHub repositories you already watch for a new latest release tag. Official GitHub API. No private repos, no clone.

Technical Dost Solutions

GitHub Repository Intelligence — $0.25/1K

scrapesignal_labs/github-repository-intelligence

Search or inspect GitHub repositories with stars, forks, issues, topics, license, activity, owner, and latest-release metadata.

ScrapeSignal Labs

GitHub AI Trending Repos Scraper – Star Velocity Radar

robinworld/github-ai-trending-repos-radar

Tracks breakout open-source AI/LLM repositories, daily star velocity, licenses, and maintainers on GitHub for venture capital tech scouts and recruiters.

Robin world

GitHub Scraper - Repos, Users, Stars & Contributors

scrapyx/github-repos-scraper

Scrapes GitHub repositories, users and organisations from the public REST API: stars, forks, topics, licence, languages, contributors and releases. Reports the REAL watcher count, tracks the 60-per-hour anonymous budget, and flags the 1,000-result search cap.

Ibnu Adzim

GitHub Repository Search Scraper — fetch-clean

primesieve/github-search-scraper

GitHub via api.github.com/search — repos, topics, trending. Plain fetch, 200 clean without key.

Prime Sieve

GitHub Repo Monitor - releases, stars, activity

sbr35/github-repo-monitor

Input: repositories as owner/name. Output: stars, forks, open issues, latest release and tag, licence, language, topics and an abandonment flag. Use when you need to check whether a project is active, popular or stale.

Alexandre de La Fayette

GitHub Repo to RAG

bindler/github-repo-to-rag

Turn any public GitHub repository into a clean dataset of code and documentation files. One download, no API token, no rate limits. Built for AI coding assistants and RAG.