Ghost Hunter AI

An Apify Actor that scrapes developer profiles from GitHub, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn, then uses Grok AI to analyze and compare candidates.

Features

• Multi-candidate support - Analyze and compare multiple developers at once
• GitHub scraping - Fetches up to 20 repositories with README contents via GitHub API
• Twitter/X scraping - Collects recent tweets using Apify's Twitter scraper
• LinkedIn scraping - Extracts comprehensive profile data including skills, experience, education
• Grok AI analysis - Send all scraped data to Grok AI with your custom prompt

Input

Candidates Format

[
    {
        "name": "John Smith",
        "githubUserUrl": "https://github.com/johnsmith",
        "twitterHandle": "@johnsmith",
        "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/johnsmith"
    },
    {
        "name": "Jane Doe",
        "githubUserUrl": "https://github.com/janedoe",
        "twitterHandle": "janedoe",
        "linkedinUrl": ""
    }
]

All profile fields are optional per candidate - leave empty ("") if not available.

Example Input

{
    "candidates": [
        {
            "name": "Candidate 1",
            "githubUserUrl": "https://github.com/user1",
            "twitterHandle": "@user1",
            "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/user1"
        },
        {
            "name": "Candidate 2",
            "githubUserUrl": "https://github.com/user2",
            "twitterHandle": "",
            "linkedinUrl": "https://linkedin.com/in/user2"
        }
    ],
    "grokApiKey": "your-grok-api-key",
    "grokPrompt": "Compare these developer candidates for a senior full-stack position. Rank them and explain your reasoning."
}

Output

The actor outputs:

{
    "candidatesData": [
        {
            "name": "Candidate 1",
            "github": {
                "username": "user1",
                "profileUrl": "https://github.com/user1",
                "repositories": [...]
            },
            "twitter": {
                "handle": "user1",
                "recentTweets": [...]
            },
            "linkedin": {
                "fullName": "...",
                "headline": "...",
                "skills": [...],
                "experiences": [...],
                ...
            }
        }
    ],
    "grokAnalysis": "Grok's comparison and analysis...",
    "totalCandidates": 2,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-01-17T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Example Prompts

• "Compare these candidates for a senior developer role. Who would be the best fit?"
• "Analyze these developers' open source contributions and rank them by impact"
• "Which candidate has the strongest AI/ML background based on their projects?"
• "Summarize each candidate's expertise in 2-3 sentences"

Data Collected

GitHub

• Repository names, descriptions, languages
• Star counts
• README contents (full text)

Twitter/X

• Recent tweets (up to 10)
• Likes and retweet counts
• Tweet timestamps

LinkedIn

• Full name, headline, about section
• Skills and endorsements
• Work experience with durations
• Education history
• Certifications and awards
• Projects
• Connection/follower counts

Requirements

• Grok API Key - Get one from x.ai
• Apify Account - For running Twitter and LinkedIn scrapers

Cost

The actor uses these Apify scrapers which consume platform credits:

• apidojo/twitter-scraper-lite - For Twitter data
• dev_fusion/Linkedin-Profile-Scraper - For LinkedIn data

GitHub data is fetched directly via the GitHub API (free).

License

MIT