GitHub Profile Scraper — Users, Repos, Stars & Language Stats

Extract detailed GitHub user profiles and their repositories. Get bio, follower counts, top repos sorted by stars, programming language distribution, and activity timestamps. Uses the official GitHub REST API — no token needed for public data.

Features

• Profile Data — name, bio, company, location, email, blog, Twitter handle, and hire status
• Follower Metrics — followers, following, public repos, and public gists counts
• Repository Extraction — top repos sorted by stars with forks, watchers, topics, and license info
• Language Statistics — aggregated programming language distribution across all repos
• Total Stars & Forks — calculated totals across all extracted repositories
• Rate Limit Handling — automatic detection and wait for GitHub API rate limits
• Configurable Depth — control max repos per user (up to 100)

Output Example

{
  "username": "torvalds",
  "name": "Linus Torvalds",
  "bio": null,
  "company": "Linux Foundation",
  "location": "Portland, OR",
  "followers": 220000,
  "following": 0,
  "publicRepos": 7,
  "totalStars": 185000,
  "totalForks": 55000,
  "repos": [
    {
      "name": "linux",
      "description": "Linux kernel source tree",
      "stars": 175000,
      "forks": 53000,
      "language": "C",
      "topics": ["linux", "kernel"],
      "license": "GPL-2.0"
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    { "language": "C", "repoCount": 4 },
    { "language": "Shell", "repoCount": 1 }
  ],
  "createdAt": "2011-09-03T15:26:22Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-18T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

• Developer Recruiting — evaluate candidates by analyzing their GitHub contributions, languages, and project quality
• Competitor Analysis — study open-source strategies of companies and key developers
• Community Research — map contributor networks and identify influential developers in a technology
• Portfolio Benchmarking — compare star counts, repo activity, and language usage across developers
• Lead Generation — find developers with specific technology expertise for outreach

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
usernames	array	[]	GitHub usernames to scrape (e.g., "torvalds", "gaearon")
includeRepos	boolean	true	Extract repositories with stars, forks, and languages
maxReposPerUser	integer	30	Max repos per user, sorted by stars (1-100)
includeLanguageStats	boolean	true	Calculate language distribution across repos

How It Works

The scraper fetches each user's profile from the GitHub REST API, then retrieves their public repositories sorted by star count. It aggregates language usage across all repos to produce a language distribution breakdown. Automatic rate limit detection pauses and retries when the GitHub API limit is reached.