Pricing

Pay per event

GitHub Repository Scraper

Fetch full GitHub repository metadata for one or many repos in one call — stars, forks, languages, topics, license, default branch, latest release, contributor count. Free GitHub REST API, optional token for higher rate limits.

Pricing

Pay per event

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

DevilScrapes

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

4 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

Lead generation

You can access the GitHub Repository 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    "repos": [
10        "apify/apify-sdk-python",
11        "apify/crawlee-python",
12    ],
13    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("devilscrapes/github-repo-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
21for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Repository Scraper — metadata, stars, languages API in Python

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

GitHub Repository Scraper API through CLI

GitHub Repository Scraper OpenAPI definition

GitHub Repository Scraper API

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