GitHub Organisation Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

GitHub publishes every org at api.github.com/orgs/{slug} and its public repos at /orgs/{slug}/repos. This Actor takes a list of org slugs, fans them out, and writes one row per organisation — with its public repos summary attached.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Lead gen — pull a list of dev-tool companies and surface contact info from public org profiles.
• M&A research — quantify the open-source surface of a target company.
• Hiring — rank organisations by location + activity to find engineering-heavy targets.
• Dependency intel — combine with the repo Actor to inventory a single company's libraries.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
orgs	array	yes	['apify', 'anthropics']	List of GitHub organisation slugs (the bit after github.com/). URLs are also accepted.
githubToken	string	no	'—'	Lifts rate limit from 60/hour to 5 000/hour. Read-only public access is sufficient.
includeRepos	boolean	no	True	Adds up to maxReposPerOrg recently-updated repos per org. One extra API call per org.
maxReposPerOrg	integer	no	30	Cap on repos returned per org. Hard ceiling 100 per page.
concurrency	integer	no	4	Parallel API requests.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': False}	Optional — GitHub doesn't IP-block at normal volumes.

Example input

{
  "orgs": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "includeRepos": false,
  "concurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
login	string	Organisation slug.
name	['string', 'null']	Display name.
description	['string', 'null']	Org bio.
company	['string', 'null']	Self-declared company string.
blog	['string', 'null']	Homepage URL.
location	['string', 'null']	Location.
email	['string', 'null']	Public email.
twitter_username	['string', 'null']	X handle.
public_repos	integer	Public repo count.
public_gists	integer	Public gist count.
followers	integer	Followers count.
html_url	string	Org profile URL.
avatar_url	string	Avatar URL.
members_url_template	string	Members API template.
type	string	Always Organization.
is_verified	['boolean', 'null']	Verified-org flag.
created_at	string	Org creation timestamp.
updated_at	string	Last profile update.
repos	['array', 'null']	Per-repo summary list (when includeRepos=true).
scraped_at	string	When this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "login": "apify",
  "name": "Apify",
  "description": "Web scraping and automation platform.",
  "blog": "https://apify.com",
  "location": "Prague, Czechia",
  "public_repos": 412,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/apify",
  "type": "Organization"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.005	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.003	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $3.00. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

Member lists, private repos, and security advisories are out of scope. Some fields (location, email, blog) are user-supplied and frequently null.

❓ FAQ

Why is email empty?

Most orgs hide email. We surface what GitHub publishes — never guess.

What's a verified org?

GitHub flags some orgs as verified (Apple, Microsoft, etc.). The boolean lives on the response.

Are private members listed?

Never — public read-only API. Use a token with org-read scope inside the org itself if you need member listings.

Can I get GHAS findings?

Out of scope — that's a paid GitHub Advanced Security API.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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