# GitHub Repo / Maintainer / Company Signal Extractor (`isotonic/github-repo-maintainer-company-signal-extractor`) Actor

Extracts public GitHub repository, maintainer, and commercialization signals from orgs, repo lists, topics, and search queries.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/isotonic/github-repo-maintainer-company-signal-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Brian Keefe](https://apify.com/isotonic) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## GitHub Repo / Maintainer / Company Signal Extractor

Production-ready Apify Actor that resolves public GitHub repositories from orgs, explicit `owner/repo` references, topics, and free-form repository search queries, then extracts maintainer, company, and commercialization signals into one dataset row per repository.

### Features

- Public GitHub data only. No authentication dependency.
- Optional `githubToken` input or `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable for higher rate limits.
- Resolves repositories from `repos`, `orgs`, `topics`, and `searchQueries`, deduplicated and capped by `maxRepos`.
- Extracts repo stats, owner/org data, topics, license, homepage, push timestamps, README links, package names, company/contact/social URLs, and public issue/PR counts when searchable.
- Computes `activityScore`, `maintainerCompanySignalScore`, `commercializationSignalScore`, and concise `leadSignals`.
- Includes deterministic offline tests and smoke validation using fixture data.

### Input

See `.actor/input_schema.json` for the Apify input schema.

Example:

```json
{
  "orgs": ["acme"],
  "repos": ["openai/example-tool"],
  "topics": ["developer-tools"],
  "searchQueries": ["maintainer automation"],
  "maxRepos": 4,
  "includeReadme": true,
  "includePackageMetadata": true,
  "githubToken": "ghp_optional"
}
```

Runtime validation requires at least one of `orgs`, `repos`, `topics`, or `searchQueries`.

### Output Schema

Each dataset item contains:

- `repoFullName`, `repoName`, `repoUrl`, `description`
- `owner`, `ownerType`, `ownerUrl`
- `homepage`, `topics`, `license`, `language`, `defaultBranch`
- `stars`, `forks`, `watchers`, `openIssuesCount`, `issueCount`, `pullRequestCount`
- `archived`, `fork`, `sizeKb`, `createdAt`, `updatedAt`, `pushedAt`
- `readmeLinks`, `packageNames`
- `companyUrls`, `contactUrls`, `socialUrls`
- `activityScore`, `maintainerCompanySignalScore`, `commercializationSignalScore`
- `leadSignals`

Sample input: `examples/sample-input.json`

Sample output: `examples/sample-output.json`

### Usage

Install dependencies:

```bash
npm install
```

Run locally:

```bash
npm start
```

Run tests:

```bash
npm test
```

Run deterministic smoke validation:

```bash
npm run smoke
```

### Rate Limits

The actor uses the public GitHub API and GitHub web-search-accessible counts only. If rate limits are reached, the run fails with a clear message that includes guidance to provide `githubToken` or `GITHUB_TOKEN`.

### Public Data / Privacy Note

This actor is designed for public GitHub repository metadata and publicly accessible README/package metadata only. Do not use it to process private repositories or secrets. The optional token is used only to authenticate requests against the public GitHub API for higher rate limits.

### Publish

Prepare and publish with the Apify CLI when ready:

```bash
apify push
```

# Actor input Schema

## `orgs` (type: `array`):

GitHub organizations to expand into repositories.

## `repos` (type: `array`):

Explicit owner/repo references.

## `topics` (type: `array`):

GitHub repository topics to search.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

GitHub repository search queries.

## `maxRepos` (type: `integer`):

Maximum unique repositories to process.

## `includeReadme` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch README content and extract links from it.

## `includePackageMetadata` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch common package metadata files and extract package names and URLs.

## `githubToken` (type: `string`):

Optional GitHub token. If omitted, the actor uses GITHUB\_TOKEN environment variable when present.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxRepos": 25,
  "includeReadme": true,
  "includePackageMetadata": true
}
```

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("isotonic/github-repo-maintainer-company-signal-extractor").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("isotonic/github-repo-maintainer-company-signal-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call isotonic/github-repo-maintainer-company-signal-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,isotonic/github-repo-maintainer-company-signal-extractor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/xfms2PWTCyxh65PEk/builds/HQSpazk25nTCx4lCq/openapi.json