You can access the GitHub Repository Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("nexgendata/github-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Repository Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GitHub Repository Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

GitHub Repository Scraper API in JavaScript

GitHub Repository Scraper API through CLI

GitHub Repository Scraper OpenAPI definition

GitHub Repository Scraper API

GitHub Repository Scraper

cloud9_ai/github-scraper

Scrape GitHub repositories, users, and trending projects via REST API. Extract repo names, stars, forks, languages, descriptions, and contributor data.

cloud9

GitHub Repository Scraper

vulnv/github-repository-scraper

Scrape and extract GitHub repository data, metadata, statistics, stars, forks, issues, and project information from multiple repositories at once.

VulnV

5.0

GitHub Scraper

pear_fight/github-scraper

Scrape repositories, stars, issues and more from GitHub

Harald

GitHub Repository Analyzer

optimus-fulcria/github-repo-analyzer

Analyze GitHub repositories: stars, forks, issues, contributors, languages, commit activity. Competitive intelligence for open source.

Fulcria Labs

GitHub Trending Scraper

automation-lab/github-trending-scraper

Scrape trending repositories from GitHub — stars, forks, language, description, and contributors.

Stas Persiianenko

GitHub Repository Analyzer

pretty_dress/github-repo-analyzer

Analyze GitHub repositories to get comprehensive metrics: stars, forks, contributors, languages, activity scores, and health assessments. Perfect for tech due diligence and competitive analysis.

嘉杰韦

GitHub Repositories Scraper - Cheap📦🐙🔍

scrapestorm/github-repositories-scraper---cheap

🔍 Easily collect repositories from GitHub Provide a GitHub profile URL or username and extract detailed repository information such as repository name, description, language, stars, topics & repository link 📦🐙 Perfect for open-source analysis, developer scouting & market intelligence 📊🔥

Storm_Scraper

5.0

GitHub Repository Search

ryanclinton/github-repo-search

Search GitHub repositories by keyword, language, topic, stars, forks. Sort by stars, forks, or recently updated. Returns metadata, topics, license, owner info, URLs. Free API, optional token for higher limits.