# GitHub Developer Lead Finder & Email Enricher (`fayoussef/github-developer-leads`) Actor Find developers on GitHub and enrich each one with verified email, company, location, skills, and social links for recruiting and B2B outreach. - **URL**: https://apify.com/fayoussef/github-developer-leads.md - **Developed by:** [youssef farhan](https://apify.com/fayoussef) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $5.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. 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. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## GitHub Developer Lead Finder & Email Enricher 🧑‍💻📧 **Find developers on GitHub and turn them into outreach-ready leads — complete with verified emails, company, location, skills, and social links.** Perfect for technical recruiters, DevRel teams, dev-tool founders, and B2B sales targeting developers. Unlike profile-only GitHub scrapers, this Actor **mines public commit history to surface real, contactable emails** (the ones hidden from the profile page) and **infers each developer's tech stack** so you can segment by skill. --- ### 💡 What it does Give it a search, and it returns a clean dataset of developer leads. Five ways to find people: | Search type | What you get | |---|---| | **User search** | Anyone matching a GitHub query — e.g. `language:Rust location:Berlin followers:>100` | | **Repository search** | Contributors of repos matching a query — e.g. `langchain stars:>500` | | **Stargazers** | Everyone who starred a repo (your competitor's repo = your warm leads) | | **Contributors** | Everyone who committed to specific repos | | **Organization members** | Public members of any GitHub org | Each lead is enriched with: - ✅ **Email** — from the profile *and* mined from public commits (the high-value part) - 🏢 **Company**, 📍 **location**, 📝 **bio**, and the **"available for hire"** flag - 🧠 **Top programming languages** and **total stars earned** (skill & influence signal) - 🔗 **Twitter / X**, **personal website / blog**, **LinkedIn** (when discoverable) - 📊 Followers, following, public repos, account age --- ### 🚀 Quick start 1. Pick a **Search type**. 2. Fill the matching field: - *User / Repository search* → **Search query** - *Stargazers / Contributors* → **Repositories** (e.g. `facebook/react`) - *Organization members* → **Organizations** (e.g. `vercel`) 3. (Recommended) Paste a **GitHub token** to unlock 5,000 requests/hour. 4. Click **Start**. #### Example: find hireable React-ecosystem developers in Europe ```json { "searchType": "users", "searchQuery": "language:JavaScript location:Germany followers:>200", "onlyHireable": true, "extractEmails": true, "maxItems": 300, "githubToken": "ghp_xxx" } ```` #### Example: leads from a competitor's stargazers ```json { "searchType": "stargazers", "repositories": ["supabase/supabase"], "onlyWithEmail": true, "maxItems": 1000 } ``` *** ### 📤 Output sample ```json { "username": "octodev", "name": "Octo Developer", "email": "octo@example.com", "emails": ["octo@example.com", "octo@work.io"], "company": "Acme Inc", "location": "Berlin, Germany", "bio": "Backend engineer. Go, Rust, distributed systems.", "hireable": true, "website": "https://octo.dev", "linkedin": null, "twitterUsername": "octodev", "followers": 842, "topLanguages": ["Go", "Rust", "TypeScript", "Python"], "totalStars": 5120, "publicRepos": 73, "githubUrl": "https://github.com/octodev", "scrapedAt": "2026-05-30T10:00:00.000Z" } ``` Export to **JSON, CSV, Excel, or via API** — drop straight into your CRM, Clay table, or cold-email tool. *** ### 🔑 GitHub token (highly recommended) Without a token GitHub allows only **60 requests/hour**. With a free Personal Access Token you get **5,000/hour**, so larger runs finish reliably. 1. Go to **https://github.com/settings/tokens** 2. Generate a token — **no scopes are required** for public data (classic or fine-grained both work). 3. Paste it into the **GitHub token** field. It's stored as a secret. *** ### 💰 Pricing (pay-per-event) You only pay for results you receive: | Event | What it covers | |---|---| | **Profile scraped** | Each enriched developer profile delivered to your dataset | | **Email enriched** | Charged only when a contactable email is actually found | | *Actor start* | Apify's standard low start fee (covers run startup) | No subscription, no per-result charge when nothing is found. *** ### ⚙️ Options reference | Option | Default | Description | |---|---|---| | `searchType` | `users` | How to find developers (see table above) | | `searchQuery` | — | GitHub search syntax (user/repository search) | | `repositories` | — | `owner/name` list (stargazers/contributors) | | `organizations` | — | Org logins (organization members) | | `maxItems` | `200` | Max leads to return | | `extractEmails` | `true` | Mine emails from profile + commit history | | `deepEmailSearch` | `false` | Also scan owned-repo commits when no email is found (slower) | | `includeNoreplyEmails` | `false` | Include anonymized `@users.noreply.github.com` addresses | | `enrichStats` | `true` | Add top languages + total stars | | `onlyWithEmail` | `false` | Keep only leads with an email | | `onlyHireable` | `false` | Keep only developers open to work | | `minFollowers` | `0` | Skip developers below this follower count | | `githubToken` | — | Personal Access Token for higher rate limits | *** ### 🧭 Use cases - **Technical recruiting** — find hireable engineers by language, location, and influence. - **Dev-tool sales & DevRel** — turn stargazers/contributors of relevant repos into a warm outreach list. - **Open-source intelligence** — map who builds what across an ecosystem. - **Community building** — identify active contributors to invite or sponsor. *** ### ❓ FAQ **Where do the emails come from?** Git commits store the author's email, and GitHub exposes recent public commits via its API. This Actor reads those public commit records (and the profile email) and filters out non-contactable `noreply` addresses. Everything used is publicly available through GitHub's official API. **Why is `email` sometimes empty?** Many developers commit using GitHub's privacy email or have no public activity. Enable `deepEmailSearch` for a more thorough scan, or set `onlyWithEmail` to keep only leads that have one. **Is this reliable at scale?** Yes — it uses GitHub's official REST API (no fragile HTML scraping, no proxies), with automatic rate-limit handling and retries. *** ### 📜 Responsible use This Actor only accesses **public** data via GitHub's official API. Use the data in compliance with GitHub's Terms of Service and applicable privacy/marketing laws (e.g. GDPR/CAN-SPAM) when contacting people. # Actor input Schema ## `searchType` (type: `string`): How to find developers: - **User search** – GitHub's user search (use the query field, e.g. `language:Go location:Berlin followers:>100`). - **Repository search** – find repos by query, then collect their contributors. - **Stargazers** – everyone who starred the given repositories. - **Contributors** – everyone who committed to the given repositories. - **Organization members** – public members of the given organizations. ## `searchQuery` (type: `string`): GitHub search query. Used for the **User search** and **Repository search** types. Supports full GitHub search syntax. Examples: `language:Python location:"San Francisco" followers:>500`, `machine learning stars:>1000`. ## `repositories` (type: `array`): List of repositories as `owner/name` (or full GitHub URLs). Used for the **Stargazers** and **Contributors** search types. ## `organizations` (type: `array`): List of GitHub organization logins (or full URLs). Used for the **Organization members** search type. Note: only publicly visible members are returned. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of developer profiles to return. Keep this sensible to control cost — GitHub search is capped at 1,000 results per query. ## `extractEmails` (type: `boolean`): Try to find each developer's email. Uses the public profile email first, then mines recent public commit history (where most real emails actually live). ## `deepEmailSearch` (type: `boolean`): If no email is found from public events, also scan commits inside the developer's own repositories. More thorough but uses extra API calls (slower). ## `includeNoreplyEmails` (type: `boolean`): Include anonymized `@users.noreply.github.com` addresses. These are not contactable, so they are excluded by default. ## `enrichStats` (type: `boolean`): Add inferred top programming languages, total stars earned, and pinned-repo signals by scanning the developer's repositories. Uses extra API calls. ## `onlyWithEmail` (type: `boolean`): Skip developers for whom no contactable email was found. ## `onlyHireable` (type: `boolean`): Keep only developers who set the "available for hire" flag on their GitHub profile. Great for technical recruiting. ## `minFollowers` (type: `integer`): Skip developers with fewer than this many followers. ## `githubToken` (type: `string`): A GitHub Personal Access Token (classic or fine-grained, no scopes required for public data). **Without a token you are limited to GitHub's unauthenticated rate of 60 requests/hour, which caps a run at roughly 20 leads per hour.** Strongly recommended: a token raises your rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests/hour, so larger runs finish reliably. Create one at https://github.com/settings/tokens ## Actor input object example ```json { "searchType": "users", "searchQuery": "language:TypeScript location:London followers:>100", "repositories": [ "facebook/react" ], "organizations": [ "vercel" ], "maxItems": 200, "extractEmails": true, "deepEmailSearch": false, "includeNoreplyEmails": false, "enrichStats": true, "onlyWithEmail": false, "onlyHireable": false, "minFollowers": 0 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `leads` (type: `string`): All enriched developer profiles collected in this run. Open in the Console table view or fetch via the dataset API. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "searchQuery": "language:TypeScript location:London followers:>100", "repositories": [ "facebook/react" ], "organizations": [ "vercel" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("fayoussef/github-developer-leads").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "searchQuery": "language:TypeScript location:London followers:>100", "repositories": ["facebook/react"], "organizations": ["vercel"], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("fayoussef/github-developer-leads").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 '{ "searchQuery": "language:TypeScript location:London followers:>100", "repositories": [ "facebook/react" ], "organizations": [ "vercel" ] }' | apify call fayoussef/github-developer-leads --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fayoussef/github-developer-leads", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "GitHub Developer Lead Finder & Email Enricher", "description": "Find developers on GitHub and enrich each one with verified email, company, location, skills, and social links for recruiting and B2B outreach.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "kKIPdT6OncyDcfMbi" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/fayoussef~github-developer-leads/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-fayoussef-github-developer-leads", "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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/fayoussef~github-developer-leads/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-fayoussef-github-developer-leads", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/fayoussef~github-developer-leads/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-fayoussef-github-developer-leads", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": [ "searchType" ], "properties": { "searchType": { "title": "Search type", "enum": [ "users", "repositories", "stargazers", "contributors", "organization" ], "type": "string", "description": "How to find developers:\n- **User search** – GitHub's user search (use the query field, e.g. `language:Go location:Berlin followers:>100`).\n- **Repository search** – find repos by query, then collect their contributors.\n- **Stargazers** – everyone who starred the given repositories.\n- **Contributors** – everyone who committed to the given repositories.\n- **Organization members** – public members of the given organizations.", "default": "users" }, "searchQuery": { "title": "Search query", "type": "string", "description": "GitHub search query. Used for the **User search** and **Repository search** types. Supports full GitHub search syntax. Examples: `language:Python location:\"San Francisco\" followers:>500`, `machine learning stars:>1000`." }, "repositories": { "title": "Repositories", "type": "array", "description": "List of repositories as `owner/name` (or full GitHub URLs). Used for the **Stargazers** and **Contributors** search types.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "organizations": { "title": "Organizations", "type": "array", "description": "List of GitHub organization logins (or full URLs). Used for the **Organization members** search type. Note: only publicly visible members are returned.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Maximum leads", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of developer profiles to return. Keep this sensible to control cost — GitHub search is capped at 1,000 results per query.", "default": 200 }, "extractEmails": { "title": "Extract emails", "type": "boolean", "description": "Try to find each developer's email. Uses the public profile email first, then mines recent public commit history (where most real emails actually live).", "default": true }, "deepEmailSearch": { "title": "Deep email search", "type": "boolean", "description": "If no email is found from public events, also scan commits inside the developer's own repositories. More thorough but uses extra API calls (slower).", "default": false }, "includeNoreplyEmails": { "title": "Include GitHub noreply emails", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include anonymized `@users.noreply.github.com` addresses. These are not contactable, so they are excluded by default.", "default": false }, "enrichStats": { "title": "Enrich skills & stats", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add inferred top programming languages, total stars earned, and pinned-repo signals by scanning the developer's repositories. Uses extra API calls.", "default": true }, "onlyWithEmail": { "title": "Only leads with an email", "type": "boolean", "description": "Skip developers for whom no contactable email was found.", "default": false }, "onlyHireable": { "title": "Only hireable developers", "type": "boolean", "description": "Keep only developers who set the \"available for hire\" flag on their GitHub profile. Great for technical recruiting.", "default": false }, "minFollowers": { "title": "Minimum followers", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Skip developers with fewer than this many followers.", "default": 0 }, "githubToken": { "title": "GitHub token (recommended)", "type": "string", "description": "A GitHub Personal Access Token (classic or fine-grained, no scopes required for public data). **Without a token you are limited to GitHub's unauthenticated rate of 60 requests/hour, which caps a run at roughly 20 leads per hour.** Strongly recommended: a token raises your rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests/hour, so larger runs finish reliably. Create one at https://github.com/settings/tokens" } } }, "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 } } } } } } } } } } ```