GitHub User & Org Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

GitHub exposes every user and org profile via its REST API. This Actor takes a list of usernames or org slugs, fans them out in parallel, and writes one row per profile with hireable status, bio, public repo count, followers/following, account creation date, and (optionally) the full list of their public repos.

🔥 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

• B2B lead gen — pull GitHub orgs in a given location, filter by public_repos > N, enrich with company website.
• Recruiting — find devs whose bio mentions a target framework and whose hireable flag is true.
• Influencer mapping — rank developers by follower count within a topic via combination with the repo Actor.
• ATS enrichment — pipe candidate GitHub URLs through this Actor to enrich your applicant tracker.

⚙️ 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
usernames	array	yes	['torvalds', 'apify']	GitHub usernames or organisation slugs, one per line. Profile URLs are also accepted — we strip the host.
githubToken	string	no	'—'	Personal access token. Without one you get 60 requests/hour; with one, 5 000/hour.
includeRepos	boolean	no	False	Adds a repos array (up to 100 most-recently-updated public repos with name + stars). One extra API call per user.
maxReposPerUser	integer	no	30	Cap on repos returned per user when includeRepos=true. Hard ceiling 100.
concurrency	integer	no	6	Parallel API requests.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': False}	Apify Proxy optional — GitHub's REST API does not IP-block at reasonable volumes.

Example input

{
  "usernames": [
    "apify"
  ],
  "includeRepos": false,
  "concurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
login	string	GitHub username or org slug.
type	string	User or Organization.
name	['string', 'null']	Display name.
company	['string', 'null']	Self-declared company.
blog	['string', 'null']	Profile blog/homepage URL.
location	['string', 'null']	Self-declared location.
email	['string', 'null']	Public email — null when the user keeps it private.
bio	['string', 'null']	Profile bio.
twitter_username	['string', 'null']	Linked X (Twitter) handle.
public_repos	integer	Public repository count.
public_gists	integer	Public gist count.
followers	integer	Follower count.
following	integer	Following count.
html_url	string	Profile URL.
avatar_url	string	Avatar image URL.
hireable	['boolean', 'null']	Self-declared hireable flag.
created_at	string	Account creation timestamp.
updated_at	string	Last profile update timestamp.
repos	['array', 'null']	Public repos summary (when includeRepos=true).
scraped_at	string	When this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "login": "apify",
  "type": "Organization",
  "name": "Apify",
  "blog": "https://apify.com",
  "location": "Prague, Czechia",
  "public_repos": 412,
  "followers": 856,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/apify"
}

💰 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

We hit only the /users/{login} endpoint. Contribution graphs, sponsor lists, and starred repos are not in scope. Private-org membership requires authentication and is also out of scope.

❓ FAQ

Why is email empty?

GitHub hides email by default. We surface whatever the public API returns; we don't probe commit metadata or noreply addresses.

Are organisations supported?

Yes — the API returns Organization type for orgs and User for personal accounts. Same dataset shape.

Does this respect GDPR?

We only fetch fields GitHub publishes publicly. Don't ingest output into outreach systems without your own legal sign-off.

Can I get a user's contribution graph?

Not via this Actor — GitHub's public REST API doesn't expose it. Use a graph-specific Actor.

💬 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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