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Github List Scraper

janbuchar/github-list-scraper
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This Actor scrapes repositories from GitHub **Awesome Lists**, **topic listings**, and **individual repositories**, collecting useful metadata for each project.

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  • Created in Mar 2025

  • Modified 12 hours ago

GitHub Awesome List and topic scraper

What this Actor does

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

Input parameters

You can customize the scraping by providing on or more of these fields:

1{
2  "awesomeLists": ["owner/repository"],
3  "topics": ["example-topic"],
4  "repositories": ["owner/repository"]
5}
  • awesomeLists (array, optional) – List of GitHub Awesome Lists to scrape.
  • topics (array, optional) – Fetch all repositories with these topics.
  • repositories (array, optional) – Scrape specific repositories.

Output format

The Actor outputs a dataset with the following fields:

1[
2  {
3    "repository": "octocat/Hello-World",
4    "description": "An example repo",
5    "homepageUrl": "https://example.com",
6    "tocPath": ["Awesome examples", "Repository examples"],
7    "topics": ["opensource", "example"],
8    "latestCommit": "2024-03-01T12:34:56Z",
9    "stars": 1234,
10    "readmeContent": "This is the README content..."
11  }
12]