GitHub Repository & User Stats API

Extract repository statistics and user profiles directly from the GitHub REST API in bulk. Feed it a list of repo names or usernames and get back stars, forks, watchers, languages, follower counts, and more — no authentication or HTML scraping required. Useful for benchmarking open-source projects, tracking competitor repos, or enriching developer profiles.

Features

• Dual mode — scrape repository stats or user profiles in a single run
• Bulk processing — process dozens of targets in one run
• Official API — queries api.github.com directly for accurate, structured data
• Rich metadata — repos get stars, forks, watchers, language, and topics; users get followers, public repo count, and bio
• No auth required — uses the public GitHub API (rate-limited to 60 req/hr)
• Auto-detection — automatically determines if a target is a repo (owner/name) or a user (username)

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
targets	array	Yes	—	List of GitHub repositories (e.g. apify/crawlee) or usernames (e.g. torvalds)
timeoutSeconds	integer	No	15	Per-request API timeout in seconds (1-120)

Input Example

{
  "targets": ["apify/crawlee", "torvalds"],
  "timeoutSeconds": 15
}

Output

Each dataset item represents one repository or user profile. Key fields:

• target (string) — the input target string
• type (string) — Repository, User, or Unknown
• name (string) — full repo name or username
• description (string) — repo description or user bio
• url (string) — GitHub profile or repo URL
• stars (number) — stargazer count (repos only)
• forks (number) — fork count (repos only)
• watchers (number) — subscriber/watcher count (repos only)
• language (string) — primary language (repos only)
• followers (number) — follower count (users only)
• publicRepos (number) — public repository count (users only)

Output Example

{
  "target": "apify/crawlee",
  "type": "Repository",
  "name": "apify/crawlee",
  "description": "Crawlee — A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js",
  "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee",
  "stars": 15200,
  "forks": 680,
  "watchers": 142,
  "language": "TypeScript",
  "followers": 0,
  "publicRepos": 0
}

Pricing

Event	Cost
Actor start	$0.02
Repo Scraped	$0.002

Typical run cost: 10 targets ≈ $0.02 + 10 × $0.002 = $0.04.

Use Cases

• OSS benchmarking — compare star counts and fork rates across competing open-source projects
• Developer enrichment — pull follower counts and bio data for developer profiles in your CRM
• Tech due diligence — assess a project's traction and community size before integrating or investing
• Portfolio monitoring — schedule weekly runs to track growth of repos you maintain or depend on

Related Actors

Actor	What it adds
NPM Metadata Extractor	Get package-level details for repos that publish to NPM
Hacker News Scraper	Track when repos get discussed on Hacker News

Notes

• The public GitHub API has a rate limit of 60 requests per hour per IP. For large batches, consider spacing runs or providing a GitHub token (not currently supported by this actor).