# GitHub Followers Following Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🐙👥 (`delectable_incubator/github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape GitHub followers and following data 👥🐙 with a powerful developer network scraper. Extract usernames, display names, bios, locations, profile URLs, and connection data from GitHub profiles. Ideal for community analysis, developer research, lead generation, and market intelligence 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="GitHub Followers Following Scraper" width="100%">
</p>

---

## 🐙👥 GitHub Followers | Following Scraper | Bulk GitHub Network Scraper | Apify Actor

### 🚀 Extract GitHub Followers & Following Data in Seconds (No Code)

The **GitHub Followers / Following Scraper (Apify Actor)** is a powerful, scalable and SEO-optimized GitHub network intelligence tool designed to extract follower and following data from public GitHub profiles in bulk.

It allows you to scrape GitHub social connections, analyze developer communities, build lead lists, discover influencers, track growth, and export structured GitHub user datasets for recruitment, market research, outreach campaigns, and AI training datasets.

---

### 🔥 Why This GitHub Scraper?

✔ Best GitHub Followers Scraper on Apify

✔ Supports bulk profile URLs and usernames

✔ Scrape followers OR following users

✔ Automatic pagination handling

✔ Fast & scalable extraction engine

✔ Structured JSON / CSV / Excel exports

✔ Ideal for recruitment & developer sourcing

✔ Perfect for lead generation & community analysis

✔ No coding required

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does (GitHub Network Data Extraction)

This Apify Actor extracts GitHub followers and following users directly from public GitHub profiles.

#### 📌 Core Features

✅ Scrape GitHub followers

✅ Scrape GitHub following users

✅ Bulk URL scraping support

✅ Bulk username scraping support

✅ Automatic pagination handling

✅ Auto-scroll for complete page loading

✅ Extract user profile details

✅ Extract bios and locations

✅ Process multiple profiles automatically

✅ Stop at your custom limit per profile

✅ Structured export-ready datasets

---

### ⚡ Input Configuration (Bulk URL Mode)

#### 🔥 BULK PROFILE MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

````

{
"profileUrls": \[
"https://github.com/torvalds",
"@gvanrossum",
"Ashkan-P88",
"https://github.com/sindresorhus"
],
"followType": "followers",
"maxItemsPerProfile": 100
}

```

---

### 📊 Extracted GitHub Data

| Field         | Description             |
| ------------- | ----------------------- |
| username      | GitHub username         |
| userName      | Display name            |
| userBio       | User biography          |
| userAvatar    | Avatar image            |
| location      | User location           |
| profileUrl    | GitHub profile URL      |
| followType    | followers / following   |
| sourceProfile | Original source profile |

---

### 💡 Use Cases (High Demand SEO Keywords)

This GitHub scraper is perfect for:

👨‍💻 Developer lead generation

🎯 GitHub prospecting

📊 Open-source community analysis

📈 Developer influence mapping

🏢 Technical recruitment

🤖 AI training datasets

🔍 Competitive research

🌍 GitHub network intelligence

📡 Developer ecosystem monitoring

⚡ Bulk GitHub user extraction

---

### 🚀 Key Features (Apify SEO Optimized)

⚡ Bulk profile scraping

👥 Followers & following extraction

🌍 Public GitHub profile support

📌 Smart pagination system

🧠 Clean structured output

📊 High-speed extraction engine

🔁 Automatic profile processing

💾 Export-ready datasets

⚙️ Cloud scalable infrastructure

---

### 📤 Output Formats Supported

✔ JSON

✔ CSV

✔ Excel (XLSX)

✔ XML

✔ HTML

✔ RSS

---

### 📦 Example Output

```

{
"username": "gwiazdan",
"profileUrl": "https://github.com/gwiazdan",
"userName": "Norbert Gwiazda",
"userAvatar": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/144944428?s=130\&v=4",
"userBio": "Hi 👋, I'm Norbert!",
"location": "Warsaw",
"sourceProfile": "@Ashkan-P88",
"followType": "followers"
}

````

---

### 📊 Preconfigured Dataset Views

#### 🔹 Overview

Clean structured table with essential profile fields.

#### 🔹 Detailed User Information

Includes profile images, bios and locations.

#### 🔹 Users by Source Profile

Grouped by the original GitHub profile.

#### 🔹 Users with Bio

Displays only users that contain biography information.

#### 🔹 Compact Export

Minimal dataset for lead generation workflows.

---

### 🔥 Why This is the BEST GitHub Followers Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify marketplace ranking

✔ Bulk URL & username support

✔ Followers and following extraction

✔ Enterprise-scale processing

✔ High-speed scraping engine

✔ Structured export-ready data

✔ Recruitment and sourcing ready

✔ Perfect for developer intelligence workflows

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay-per-result pricing model**.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 **Price:** $4.99 / 1,000 results 

---

### ❓ FAQ (SEO BOOST SECTION)

#### Can I scrape multiple GitHub profiles at once?

Yes — bulk profile mode is fully supported.

#### Can I scrape followers and following?

Yes — simply choose your preferred mode.

#### Does it support GitHub usernames?

Yes — URLs and usernames are both supported.

#### Is coding required?

No — 100% no-code Apify Actor.

#### Can I export the data?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML and RSS exports are available.

#### Does it automatically handle pagination?

Yes — the scraper automatically loads additional pages until the limit is reached.

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent automation solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GitHub.

---

### 🔗 Related Actors (PrimeScrape Ecosystem)

Explore more scraping tools for:

👨‍💻 Developer Intelligence

📊 Lead Generation

🏢 Company Research

💼 Job Market Data

🛒 E-commerce Analytics

📈 Market Intelligence

🤖 AI Training Datasets

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for large-scale data extraction, automation, lead generation, AI datasets and business intelligence.

📊 Data Extraction

👨‍💻 Developer Intelligence

🏢 Company Intelligence

📈 Market Analytics

🤖 AI Datasets

⚙️ Automation Workflows

🚀 Cloud Scale Scraping

---

### 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review if you enjoy using this scraper.

📩 Contact us via Apify for custom scraping solutions, enterprise deployments, or feature requests.

**PrimeScrape** 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

List of GitHub profile URLs or usernames to scrape followers or following from.

Accepted formats:
• Full URL: https://github.com/username
• Username with @: @username
• Plain username: username

Examples:
• ['https://github.com/Ashkan-P88', 'https://github.com/pirate']
• ['@torvalds', '@gvanrossum']
• ['Ashkan-P88', 'pirate']

IMPORTANT: Each entry must uniquely identify a GitHub user.
## `followType` (type: `string`):

Choose what to scrape from each profile:

• 'followers' - People who follow the profile
• 'following' - People the profile follows

The scraper will collect this data for ALL profiles in the list.
## `maxItemsPerProfile` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of followers/following to collect for EACH profile.

The scraper will:
• Paginate through results (30 users per page on GitHub)
• Scroll 3 times per page to ensure full content load
• Stop when reaching this limit OR after 2 consecutive empty pages
• Move to the next profile automatically

Recommended values:
• 30-90 for quick sampling (1-3 pages)
• 150-300 for medium scraping
• 1000+ for comprehensive data collection

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://github.com/Ashkan-P88"
  ],
  "followType": "followers",
  "maxItemsPerProfile": 100
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://github.com/Ashkan-P88"
    ],
    "followType": "followers",
    "maxItemsPerProfile": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "profileUrls": ["https://github.com/Ashkan-P88"],
    "followType": "followers",
    "maxItemsPerProfile": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://github.com/Ashkan-P88"
  ],
  "followType": "followers",
  "maxItemsPerProfile": 100
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "GitHub Followers Following Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🐙👥",
        "description": "Scrape GitHub followers and following data 👥🐙 with a powerful developer network scraper. Extract usernames, display names, bios, locations, profile URLs, and connection data from GitHub profiles. Ideal for community analysis, developer research, lead generation, and market intelligence 📊🚀",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "7GGYJmOcAwKvA4XFZ"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-delectable_incubator-github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-github-followers-following-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "profileUrls",
                    "followType",
                    "maxItemsPerProfile"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "profileUrls": {
                        "title": "Profile URLs (Bulk) 👥",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of GitHub profile URLs or usernames to scrape followers or following from.\n\nAccepted formats:\n• Full URL: https://github.com/username\n• Username with @: @username\n• Plain username: username\n\nExamples:\n• ['https://github.com/Ashkan-P88', 'https://github.com/pirate']\n• ['@torvalds', '@gvanrossum']\n• ['Ashkan-P88', 'pirate']\n\nIMPORTANT: Each entry must uniquely identify a GitHub user.",
                        "default": [
                            "https://github.com/Ashkan-P88"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "followType": {
                        "title": "Scrape Type 🔍",
                        "enum": [
                            "followers",
                            "following"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Choose what to scrape from each profile:\n\n• 'followers' - People who follow the profile\n• 'following' - People the profile follows\n\nThe scraper will collect this data for ALL profiles in the list.",
                        "default": "followers"
                    },
                    "maxItemsPerProfile": {
                        "title": "Maximum Items Per Profile 🎯",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of followers/following to collect for EACH profile.\n\nThe scraper will:\n• Paginate through results (30 users per page on GitHub)\n• Scroll 3 times per page to ensure full content load\n• Stop when reaching this limit OR after 2 consecutive empty pages\n• Move to the next profile automatically\n\nRecommended values:\n• 30-90 for quick sampling (1-3 pages)\n• 150-300 for medium scraping\n• 1000+ for comprehensive data collection",
                        "default": 100
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```