🎯 GitHub Bounty Sniper

Find verified, high-paying, and low-competition open-source bounties on GitHub. GitHub Bounty Sniper searches active issues backed by verified escrow platforms (like Algora.io, Opire.dev, and Polar) while filtering out bot spam, scraper mirrors, and malicious prompt-injection honeypots.

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⚡ Why Use GitHub Bounty Sniper?

Finding bounties manually is tedious:

• Most bounty tags are outdated or already solved.
• Many issues are flooded with dozens of competing developers.
• Some repos are automated mirror spam or honeypot traps aimed at AI coding agents.

GitHub Bounty Sniper automates the hunt so you can be the first to grab high-yield, verified issues:

• 💎 Verified Escrow Backing: Targets bounties backed by reputable escrow platforms (Algora, Opire, Polar, and 💎 diamond tags) with real financial commitments.
• 🛡️ Anti-Honeypot & Bot Defense: Actively scans and eliminates AI agent traps, prompt injection payloads, and mirror scraper clones (e.g. bounty-watcher, bounty-plaza).
• 🏎️ Low Competition (First-Mover Filter): Filters issues by maximum human comment count so you discover bounties before the crowd arrives.
• 🌐 Language & Freshness Targeting: Focus on your strongest stacks (TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.) within your preferred timeframe.
• ⚖️ Repo Diversity Safeguard: Automatically caps results per repository so no single project dominates your dataset.
• 💵 Automatic Reward Extraction: Intelligently extracts and normalizes reward values in USD (e.g. $50, $250, $1.5k).

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📥 Input Configuration

Configure your search criteria in the Actor input:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
languages	Array<String>	["TypeScript", "JavaScript", "Python"]	Target programming languages to search.
minBountyUsd	Integer	50	Minimum payout threshold in USD.
maxComments	Integer	3	Maximum human comments allowed (filters out crowded bounties).
maxAgeDays	Integer	90	Maximum age of issues in days (skips stale/abandoned repos).
maxItems	Integer	25	Maximum number of verified bounties to return.
excludeHoneypots	Boolean	true	Enables strict checks against prompt-injection traps and bot honeypots.
githubToken	String	"" (Optional)	GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) to boost API rate limits.

Sample Input

{
  "languages": ["TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
  "minBountyUsd": 50,
  "maxComments": 3,
  "maxAgeDays": 60,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "excludeHoneypots": true,
  "githubToken": ""
}

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📤 Output Data Format

Every discovered bounty is saved to the dataset as an individual record with normalized properties:

Field	Type	Description
title	String	GitHub issue title
estimatedRewardUsd	Number	Estimated or guaranteed payout amount in USD
language	String	Primary programming language
repository	String	Repository in owner/repo format
issueNumber	Integer	Issue number
issueUrl	String	Direct web link to the GitHub issue
humanCommentsCount	Integer	Number of comments excluding initial bot comments
totalCommentsCount	Integer	Total comment count
author	String	Username of the issue author
createdAt	String	ISO timestamp of issue creation
escrowVerified	Boolean	true if verified escrow backing is detected
labels	Array<String>	Issue labels
bodyPreview	String	Sanitized description snippet (first 300 characters)

Sample Output Record

{
  "title": "Fix memory leak in background worker queue",
  "estimatedRewardUsd": 150,
  "language": "TypeScript",
  "humanCommentsCount": 1,
  "totalCommentsCount": 2,
  "repository": "acme-corp/fast-queue",
  "issueNumber": 342,
  "issueUrl": "https://github.com/acme-corp/fast-queue/issues/342",
  "author": "octocat",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-12T15:30:00Z",
  "escrowVerified": true,
  "labels": ["bounty", "bug", "💎 $150"],
  "bodyPreview": "We have an open bounty via Algora.io ($150) for fixing the memory consumption spike occurring when processing batched jobs..."
}

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🔑 GitHub API Rate Limits

• Unauthenticated: GitHub allows up to 10 search requests per minute. The Actor includes automatic pacing to stay within limits.
• With Personal Access Token (PAT): Adding a GitHub fine-grained or classic token (with read-only public access) increases your quota to 30 search requests per minute and 5,000 core requests per hour, allowing faster multi-language sweeps.

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🚀 How to Run

Via Apify Console

1. Open GitHub Bounty Sniper on Apify.
2. Configure your languages, minimum reward amount, and maximum comment threshold.
3. Click Start to run.
4. View the results directly in the Overview table or export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Via Apify CLI

$apify run

Deploy Local Changes

$apify push --force

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💡 Pro Tips for Bounty Hunters

1. Keep maxComments low (1–3): Bounties with 0–1 comments represent the highest success rate. Once an issue has 5+ comments, a PR is usually already in progress.
2. Automate via Schedules: Set this Actor on an Apify schedule (e.g. every 2–4 hours) to receive immediate webhook or Slack notifications when fresh bounties appear.
3. Check escrowVerified: Prioritize issues where escrowVerified is true to ensure the bounty funds are deposited with Algora or Opire.