# GitHub repo metadata export from the official REST API

**Use case:** 

Repositories tagged with the topic rest-api and more than 500 stars - 295 matched on 2026-09-13, the top one hoppscotch/hoppscotch with 80,293 stars. Read through the official GitHub REST search API, not by scraping the website. watchers is deliberately absent: the API field watchers_count is a historical alias equal to the star count, so publishing it would be a fabricated statistic.

## Input

```json
{
  "query": "topic:rest-api stars:>500",
  "sort": "stars",
  "order": "desc",
  "maxResults": 295,
  "minStars": 0,
  "excludeForks": false,
  "excludeArchived": false,
  "waitForRateLimit": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "fullName": {
    "label": "Repository",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "stars": {
    "label": "Stars",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "starsPerYear": {
    "label": "Stars/year",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "forks": {
    "label": "Forks",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "language": {
    "label": "Language",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "license": {
    "label": "License",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "daysSinceLastPush": {
    "label": "Days since push",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "isArchived": {
    "label": "Archived",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "isFork": {
    "label": "Fork",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "openIssues": {
    "label": "Open issues",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "description": {
    "label": "Description",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "topics": {
    "label": "Topics",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "createdAt": {
    "label": "Created",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "source": {
    "label": "Source",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [GitHub Repo Search API - Stars, Language, Date, Official API](https://apify.com/neverempty/github-repo-search.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/neverempty/github-repo-search.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/neverempty/github-repo-search.md

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`).