GitHub is a goldmine for developer insights, housing millions of public user profiles and repositories. A scraper that extracts information about GitHub users can provide valuable insights for recruiters, researchers, and organizations looking to engage with the developer community. This guide explores the design, technical implementation, challenges, and ethical considerations of building a GitHub scraper.

data output

The scraper collects following information about the users url being passed:

name
description
company
repo stats

Github Users Scraper

dtrungtin/github-users-scraper

Github Users Scraper is an Apify actor for extracting users or emails from Github. It allows you to extract all watchers, stargazers, and members from a repository page.

Tin Duong

205

4.0

Github Profile Scraper

saswave/github-profile-scraper

GitHub User Profile Scraper. Extracts data from GitHub profiles, including followers, following, LinkedIn, Twitter, achievements and much more. Ideal for developers, researchers, and marketers. From a list of Github profile or a repository stargazers link

SASWAVE

GitHub Stars

sauain/github-stars

Input will be the URL of any GitHub repository, and output will be GitHub Stars.

Saurav Jain

Github Search Scraper

saswave/github-search-scraper

Github search scraper. Get all data from search results list

SASWAVE

Github emails from commits

saswave/github-emails-from-commits

From a Github repository url, extract all emails from commits and their occurence number. Allow you to generate a list of emails from targeted github repositories

SASWAVE

GitHub Repository Scraper

fresh_cliff/github-scraper

This actor scrapes detailed information from GitHub repositories using reliable HTTP requests and HTML parsing. It extracts repository metadata including star counts, fork counts, topics/tags, license information, primary programming language, and last updated timestamps.

Brennan Crawford

Github User Profile Scraper

powerful_bachelor/Github-User-Profile-Scraper

The GitHub User Profile Scraper extracts vital info from GitHub profiles, including followers, following, LinkedIn, Twitter, achievements and much more. Ideal for developers, researchers, and marketers, it supports multiple profiles and exports data in various formats.

Powerful Bachelor

Apify Users

prog-party/apify-users

This Apify Users Actor retrieves data from Apify, allowing to filter, and returns a list of users as a Dataset.

Prog Party

Github Marketplace Scraper

jungle_synthesizer/github-marketplace-scraper

Scrape GitHub Marketplace listings. Extracts relevant metadata, developer details, pricing information, and even hidden fields like emails.

BowTiedRacoon

Github List Scraper

janbuchar/github-list-scraper

This Actor scrapes repositories from GitHub **Awesome Lists**, **topic listings**, and **individual repositories**, collecting useful metadata for each project.