You can access the GitHub Releases and Changelog Sentinel 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 = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("adaptive_nightmare/github-release-radar").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 Releases Scraper: Changelog and Assets API API in Python

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

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

GitHub Releases and Changelog Sentinel API in JavaScript

GitHub Releases and Changelog Sentinel API through CLI

GitHub Releases and Changelog Sentinel OpenAPI definition

GitHub Releases and Changelog Sentinel API

Example using GitHub Gist

apify/example-github-gist

Example of an Apify actor with source code hosted in a GitHub Gist. For example, this is useful if you want to have public code examples accompanied by a working API that anyone can try straight away.

Apify

5.0

(3)

GitHub Releases Delta Monitor

tom_the_builder/github-releases-delta-monitor

Monitor GitHub repositories for new or changed releases and return normalized release alerts.

Danil Iarmolchik

GitHub Release Monitor & Dependency Alerts

johnatan029/github-release-monitor

Monitor GitHub repositories for genuinely new releases without duplicates. Get tags, release notes, prerelease flags, authors, assets, publish dates, and free repo metrics. Stateful baseline prevents repeat billing and supports scheduled dependency, DevOps, security, and changelog workflows.

Johnn Mottin

Open Source Release Monitor

civicdataworks/open-source-release-monitor

Monitor public GitHub releases for repositories and export normalized release metadata.

Rowan Mercer

Github Insight Scraper

saswave/github-insight-scraper

$0.8 / 1000 results. Extracts real-time repository velocity, contributor statistics, pull request movement, issue tracking, commit volume, contributors and code frequency metrics across target GitHub repositories.

SASWAVE

Mobile Release Notes Monitor

junipr/mobile-release-notes-monitor

Monitor public mobile release notes, version history, update frequency, and change themes.

junipr

PyPI Python Package Updates and Release Radar

adaptive_nightmare/pypi-package-radar

Monitor newly released and updated Python packages, version numbers, descriptions, author links, and project homepages from PyPI in real time.

Darim Quraishi

GitHub Security Advisories and CVE Vulnerability Radar

adaptive_nightmare/github-advisory-database-radar

Track open-source security advisories, CVE links, CVSS severity scores, affected package ecosystems, and patched versions across GitHub without API keys.

Darim Quraishi

GitHub Issues Scraper + Pain Point Analysis

pappy-dev/github-issue-pain

Scrape issues from any public GitHub repository (no login) and get pain-point analysis on top: the verbatim reports where users describe what is broken and what they want. Uses the official GitHub API.

Backyard Tools

Texas Restaurant Inspection Tracker — Austin & Dallas

recordstack/texas-restaurant-inspection-tracker

Restaurant and food-establishment inspection scores from the official Austin and Dallas open-data feeds, normalized into one schema with computed score bands, violation details and an only-new mode.