GitHub Repository Health Monitor

Check GitHub repositories for maintenance activity, stale releases, archived status, open issues, breaking-change signals, and update risk.

This Apify Actor is designed for developers, DevOps teams, maintainers, self-hosted users, and AI agents that need structured repository health signals before depending on or upgrading open-source software.

What it checks

• Repository status: archived, disabled, private/not accessible
• Recent commit and push activity
• Recent release activity and release titles
• Open issue count
• Recent open issue titles for failure keywords such as not working, crash, setup failed, broken
• Breaking/deprecation keywords in recent issues and release titles
• Transparent health score, risk level, and recommendation

What it does not do

• It does not access private repositories unless the user provides a GitHub token with permission.
• It does not clone repositories or run their code.
• It does not use external AI APIs or proxies.
• It does not guarantee that a dependency is safe; it prioritizes manual review.

Example input

{
  "repositories": ["hacs/integration", "immich-app/immich", "microsoft/playwright"],
  "lookbackDays": 180,
  "riskOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "githubToken": "",
  "outputMode": "summary"
}

Example output

{
  "repo": "immich-app/immich",
  "health_score": 84,
  "risk_level": "low",
  "recommendation": "Low risk (84/100): recent commit activity. Review release notes before upgrading.",
  "open_issues": 123,
  "critical_issue_count": 1,
  "breaking_change_count": 0,
  "sources": ["https://github.com/immich-app/immich"]
}

Pricing recommendation

Recommended pay-per-event setup:

• Keep Apify's synthetic apify-actor-start event at its default price.
• Add one custom event: repo-check.
• Suggested initial price for repo-check: $0.01 per repository analyzed.

The code pushes each dataset item with the repo-check event name and stops when the user's configured charge limit is reached.

Local development

python -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pytest
python scripts/run_local.py examples/input.json