You can access the GitHub Repo 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 Integrations settings 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    "repositories": ["facebook/react"],
10    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("artificially/github-repo-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Repo Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GitHub Repo 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 Repo Scraper API in JavaScript

GitHub Repo Scraper API through CLI

GitHub Repo Scraper OpenAPI definition

GitHub Repo Scraper API

Github Contributors Scraper

janbuchar/github-contributors-scraper

Jan Buchar

5.0

Github Repo User Scraper

inquisitive_sarangi/github-repo-scraper

Github Repo User Scraper is simple tool to extract users of a repo(s) like contributors, stargazers & watchers. You can also export listings to JSON/CSV or any other as format.

API Master

GitHub Repository Intelligence - API-Based Data Scraper

benthepythondev/github-repository-intelligence

Extract repository metadata, README content, and documentation from GitHub using the official REST API. Perfect for LLM training data, developer research, and competitive analysis. Search by keywords or fetch specific repositories.

ben

Github Users Scraper

getdataforme/github-users-actor

This actor works well and helps to scrape the users on github repository.

GetDataForMe

Github Profile Scraper

saswave/github-profile-scraper

GitHub User Profile Scraper. Extracts data from GitHub profiles, including followers, following, LinkedIn, Twitter, achievements and much more. Ideal for developers, researchers, and marketers. From a list of Github profile or a repository stargazers link