You can access the GitHub Issues & Pull Requests 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    "repositories": ["microsoft/vscode"],
10    "searchQueries": [],
11    "labels": [],
12    "since": "",
13}
14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
16run = client.actor("fetch_cat/github-issues-pull-requests-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
19print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
20for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
21    print(item)
22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Issues & Pull Requests Scraper for Public Repos API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GitHub Issues & Pull Requests 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 Issues & Pull Requests Scraper API in JavaScript

GitHub Issues & Pull Requests Scraper API through CLI

GitHub Issues & Pull Requests Scraper OpenAPI definition

GitHub Issues & Pull Requests Scraper API

Github Issue PR Extractor

extremescrapes/github-issue-pr-extractor

Extract GitHub issues and pull requests as clean Markdown

Extreme Scrapes

GitHub Scraper - Repos, Issues, PRs & Contributors

nominated_tupelo/github-scraper

Scrape GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, contributors, releases, and trending repos. Uses the official GitHub REST API. Optional GitHub token for higher rate limits.

kade

Github Scraper | $2 / 1k | All In One

fatihtahta/github-scraper

Scrape GitHub at real scale with no cap. Get the richest data on repos, issues, PRs, users and orgs including stars, forks, topics, tech stack, users, owners and more. Great for market intel, dev products, lead lists, talent scouting and big, clean datasets.

Fatih Tahta

Scrappey Web Scraper – Managed Browser & Proxy API

dormic/apify-scrappey

Scrape data from modern, JavaScript-heavy web pages using the Scrappey.com API integrated with an Apify Actor. A robust solution for complex scraping scenarios — managed browser sessions, proxy rotation, and full browser automation.

Pim

172

5.0

(2)

Slack Messages Downloader

zuzka/slack-messages-downloader

Download message history from a public Slack channel. Extract message text, timestamps, user IDs, reactions, thread metadata, and files. Automatically paginates results and exports data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML for backups and reports.

Zuzka Pelechová

GitHub Issues Scraper

glassventures/github-issues-scraper

Scrape GitHub issues from repos, orgs, or search queries. Extract titles, labels, assignees, comments, reactions. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel.

Glass Ventures

GitHub Scraper

brilliant_gum/github-scraper

Scrapes GitHub repositories, users, trending repos, issues and code via the GitHub REST API v3. Supports authentication tokens for higher rate limits (5000 req/hr vs 60 req/hr unauthenticated). Includes smart analytics: language distribution, license distribution, stars histogram, activity scores...

Yuliia Kulakova

Github Repository Analyzer

actually_good_at_this/apify-github-repository-analyzer

GitHub Repository Analyzer extracts comprehensive repository metrics using the official GitHub API: stars, forks, watchers, contributors, commit activity, and issues/PRs.

john Y

GitHub REST API Integration Scraper (BYOC)

viralanalyzer/mcp-github-integration

Scrape public/private repositories, issues, PRs, and trending charts from GitHub via official REST API (BYOC).

viralanalyzer

5.0

(1)

GitHub Repo Monitor — Releases, Stars, Issues & Activity

vertaizen/github-repo-monitor

OSS monitoring tool tracking any GitHub repos via the open GitHub REST API — new releases, star velocity, issues, commits & contributors. No scraping, no blocking. Monitor mode returns only NEW activity for release alerts & devtools competitive intel. MCP-ready.