# Gitea & Forgejo Scraper - Repos, Stars & Languages (`logiover/gitea-repository-scraper`) Actor

Scrape any Gitea or Forgejo instance in bulk, including Codeberg. Extract repository name, owner, description, language, stars, forks, open issues, size, licence, topics and timestamps to CSV/JSON. No API key, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/gitea-repository-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Logiover](https://apify.com/logiover) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Gitea & Forgejo Scraper - Repos, Stars & Languages

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**Scrape any Gitea or Forgejo instance in bulk, including Codeberg. Extract repository name, owner, description, language, stars, forks, open issues, size, licence, topics and timestamps to CSV/JSON. No API key, no login.**

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### What does the Gitea Scraper do?

This Actor turns Gitea data into a structured dataset. You point it at an instance by stars or a language search, it walks the result pages one after another, and it writes one clean row per repositorie into your dataset — ready to export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or to pull straight from the Apify API.

Gitea and its fork Forgejo expose the same versioned REST API, and the repository search endpoint answers without a token on public instances such as Codeberg. One configuration therefore works across the whole self-hosted Git ecosystem, which is where projects that left the large platforms tend to live. Pagination is followed automatically until it runs out of results, hits your page limit or hits your **Max items** cap, whichever comes first. Every row is de-duplicated across the whole run, so you are never billed twice for the same repositorie.

There is **no API key, no login and no browser** involved. That keeps runs fast and cheap, and it means you can schedule the Actor without worrying about credentials expiring.

### Who is it for?

- **Developer-relations teams** tracking projects outside the big platforms.
- **Security researchers** surveying self-hosted code at scale.
- **Open-source analysts** measuring activity on alternative forges.
- **Recruiters and sourcers** finding maintainers of niche projects.
- **Developers** mirroring or indexing an instance's public repositories.

### Use cases

- Export every public repository on an instance and rank by stars.
- Find the most active projects in a language on Codeberg.
- Track how a self-hosted forge grows over time.
- Locate archived or mirrored repositories for cleanup.
- Build a catalogue of open-source projects outside GitHub.

### Why use this Gitea Scraper?

- 🔑 **Keyless** — no account, no API token, no cookies to paste.
- 📦 **33 fields per repositorie** — everything the source exposes, already typed.
- 📄 **Real pagination** — it walks page after page instead of returning the first screen.
- 🎯 **Precise caps** — **Max items** stops the run exactly where you want it, so the bill is predictable.
- 📊 **Export anywhere** — JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, plus the Apify API and integrations.
- 💸 **Pay per result** — you pay for rows you actually receive, with no platform fees to calculate.

### What data can you extract?

Every run produces one row per repositorie, with these fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `instanceDomain` | string | Domain of the Gitea or Forgejo instance |
| `repoId` | string | Repository ID on the instance |
| `fullName` | string | Owner and repository name |
| `name` | string | Repository name |
| `owner` | string | Owner login |
| `ownerFullName` | string | Owner display name when published |
| `description` | string | Repository description |
| `repoUrl` | string | Web link to the repository |
| `cloneUrl` | string | HTTPS clone URL |
| `website` | string | Project website when set |
| `defaultBranch` | string | Default branch name |
| `language` | string | Primary language detected by the forge |
| `starsCount` | number | Number of stars |
| `forksCount` | number | Number of forks |
| `watchersCount` | number | Number of watchers |
| `openIssuesCount` | number | Open issues |
| `openPullsCount` | number | Open pull requests |
| `releaseCount` | number | Published releases |
| `sizeKb` | number | Repository size in kilobytes |
| `topics` | string | Topics, separated by a pipe |
| `isFork` | boolean | Whether the repository is a fork |
| `isMirror` | boolean | Whether it mirrors another repository |
| `isArchived` | boolean | Whether it is archived |
| `isEmpty` | boolean | Whether it has no commits |
| `isTemplate` | boolean | Whether it is a template repository |
| `hasIssues` | boolean | Whether the issue tracker is enabled |
| `hasWiki` | boolean | Whether the wiki is enabled |
| `hasPullRequests` | boolean | Whether pull requests are enabled |
| `createdAt` | string | ISO timestamp the repository was created |
| `updatedAt` | string | ISO timestamp of the last update |
| `query` | string | Search term this row came from, or the whole instance |
| `page` | number | Result page the repository appeared on |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO timestamp of extraction |

#### Output example

```json
{
  "instanceDomain": "codeberg.org",
  "repoId": "948270",
  "fullName": "ziglang/zig",
  "name": "zig",
  "owner": "ziglang",
  "ownerFullName": "Zig Software Foundation",
  "description": "General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.",
  "repoUrl": "https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig",
  "cloneUrl": "https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig.git",
  "website": "https://ziglang.org",
  "defaultBranch": "master",
  "language": "Zig",
  "starsCount": 6638,
  "forksCount": 916,
  "watchersCount": 353,
  "openIssuesCount": 824,
  "openPullsCount": 316,
  "releaseCount": 0,
  "sizeKb": 699943,
  "topics": null,
  "isFork": false,
  "isMirror": false,
  "isArchived": false,
  "isEmpty": false,
  "isTemplate": false,
  "hasIssues": true,
  "hasWiki": false,
  "hasPullRequests": true,
  "createdAt": "2025-11-25T18:51:45+01:00",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-20T09:37:41+02:00",
  "query": "whole instance",
  "page": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T12:41:55.203Z"
}
```

### How to use

#### Option A — an instance by stars

```json
{
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "maxPagesPerInstance": 20,
  "sortBy": "stars",
  "instanceUrls": [
    "https://codeberg.org"
  ]
}
```

1. Open the Actor and fill in the first field.
2. Set the page limit and **Max items** to bound the run.
3. Click **Start**, then export from the **Output** tab.

#### Option B — a language search

```json
{
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxPagesPerInstance": 10,
  "searchQuery": "rust",
  "sortBy": "updated",
  "instanceUrls": [
    "https://codeberg.org"
  ]
}
```

Everything in the first field is processed independently, so you can batch several targets into one run and split them apart afterwards.

### Input parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `instanceUrls` | array | `–` | Home pages of the instances to scrape, e. |
| `searchQuery` | string | `–` | Restrict to repositories matching this term. |
| `sortBy` | string | `updated` | Which order to walk the repository list in. |
| `maxPagesPerInstance` | integer | `8` | How many result pages to walk for each instance. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `500` | Stop after this many repositories. |
| `maxConcurrency` | integer | `2` | Parallel requests. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | `{"useApifyProxy": true}` | Proxy used to fetch pages. |

### Tips for best results

- Paste the instance home page, e.g. https://codeberg.org — the Actor appends the API path.
- Leave the search term empty to walk every public repository on the instance.
- **Sort** switches between recently updated, most starred and newest.
- Each page returns up to 50 repositories, so plan page counts accordingly.
- `starsCount` on self-hosted forges is far lower than on GitHub; judge it relative to the instance.
- `isMirror` true means the code is hosted elsewhere and only copied here.
- `sizeKb` separates real projects from placeholder repositories.
- Private repositories never appear — the Actor reads only public data.
- Forgejo instances answer the same API, so the Actor works on those unchanged.
- Keep concurrency low — most instances are small community servers.

### Integrations

Send results straight into the tools you already use: **Google Sheets**, **Slack**, **Zapier**, **Make**, **Airtable** or any **Webhook**. You can also **schedule** the Actor to run hourly, daily or weekly and have each run append to the same dataset, which is how you build a price or availability history rather than a one-off snapshot.

### API usage

Run the Actor and collect results from any language. Replace `<YOUR_TOKEN>` with your Apify API token.

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~gitea-repository-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 1000, "maxPagesPerInstance": 20, "sortBy": "stars", "instanceUrls": ["https://codeberg.org"]}'
```

**Node.js**

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('logiover/gitea-repository-scraper').call({"maxItems": 1000, "maxPagesPerInstance": 20, "sortBy": "stars", "instanceUrls": ["https://codeberg.org"]});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

**Python**

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('<YOUR_TOKEN>')
run = client.actor('logiover/gitea-repository-scraper').call(run_input={"maxItems": 1000, "maxPagesPerInstance": 20, "sortBy": "stars", "instanceUrls": ["https://codeberg.org"]})
for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item)
```

### Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is available through the Apify MCP server, so an AI agent can call it as a tool. Point your agent at `https://mcp.apify.com` and it can run the Gitea Scraper on demand — for example: *"Pull the first 500 repositories from Gitea and summarise what you find."* The agent receives the same structured rows you would get from the UI.

### FAQ

#### Do I need a Gitea account or API key?

No. The Actor reads publicly available data only. There is nothing to authenticate and no credentials to rotate.

#### How many repositories can I get in one run?

As many as the source exposes. Raise the page limit and **Max items** together; the run stops at whichever limit it reaches first.

#### Why did I get fewer rows than I asked for?

The source ran out of repositories. That is normal for narrow searches — broaden the query or add more targets to one run.

#### Are results de-duplicated?

Yes. Each repositorie is emitted once per run, even when it appears on several pages, so you are never billed twice for the same record.

#### Why are some fields empty?

Gitea does not publish every attribute for every repositorie. Empty means the source did not supply it, not that extraction failed.

#### What export formats are supported?

JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML and RSS from the **Output** tab, plus the Apify API and any integration you connect.

#### How fast is it?

It is pure HTTP with no browser, so a page of results typically takes a second or two. Raise **Max concurrency** carefully — the source rate-limits aggressive crawling.

#### Can I schedule it?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run it on any interval and append each run to the same dataset for time-series analysis.

#### Does it work behind a proxy?

It uses Apify Proxy automatically. You can switch groups or supply your own proxies in **Proxy configuration**.

#### How often does the data change?

Gitea updates continuously. Re-run whenever you need current data; the Actor always reads the live source, never a cache.

#### Is the output schema stable?

Yes. Field names and types are fixed, so downstream pipelines will not break between runs.

#### What if the source changes its format?

Open an issue on the **Issues** tab and it gets fixed. The Actor is actively maintained.

### Is it legal?

This Actor reads only publicly available data from Gitea — the same content any visitor or client sees without logging in. It does not bypass authentication, does not collect private data and does not attempt to defeat access controls. You are responsible for how you use the output: respect the source's terms of service, applicable copyright, and data-protection law such as GDPR where personal data is involved. Scraping public data is generally lawful in the EU and the US, but the responsibility for the downstream use of that data sits with you.

### Related scrapers

- [GitHub Repository Scraper](https://apify.com/logiover/github-repository-scraper) — The largest forge
- [GitLab Scraper](https://apify.com/logiover/gitlab-scraper) — GitLab projects
- [Docker Hub Scraper](https://apify.com/logiover/docker-hub-scraper) — Container images
- [crates.io Scraper](https://apify.com/logiover/crates-io-scraper) — Rust packages

# Actor input Schema

## `instanceUrls` (type: `array`):

Home pages of the instances to scrape, e.g. https://codeberg.org. The Actor appends the API path itself.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Restrict to repositories matching this term. Leave empty to walk every public repository.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Which order to walk the repository list in.

## `maxPagesPerInstance` (type: `integer`):

How many result pages to walk for each instance. Set 0 for no limit.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many repositories. Set 0 for no limit.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests. Lower this if the source rate-limits you.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy used to fetch pages. Defaults to Apify Proxy (automatic). You usually do not need to change this.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "instanceUrls": [
    "https://codeberg.org"
  ],
  "searchQuery": "",
  "sortBy": "updated",
  "maxPagesPerInstance": 8,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All repositories extracted in this run.

# 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 = {
    "instanceUrls": [
        "https://codeberg.org"
    ],
    "maxPagesPerInstance": 8,
    "maxItems": 500,
    "maxConcurrency": 2
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("logiover/gitea-repository-scraper").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 = {
    "instanceUrls": ["https://codeberg.org"],
    "maxPagesPerInstance": 8,
    "maxItems": 500,
    "maxConcurrency": 2,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("logiover/gitea-repository-scraper").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 '{
  "instanceUrls": [
    "https://codeberg.org"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerInstance": 8,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}' |
apify call logiover/gitea-repository-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,logiover/gitea-repository-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/2PfgdYcLZFc2TZhTb/builds/mZz3k1gEKd6zc1guu/openapi.json