You can access the GitHub Repository Search & Stars 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 API & Integrations 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 = { "searchQueries": [
9        "llm",
10        "web scraping",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("pepeschuster/github-repo-search").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Repository Search & Stars Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GitHub Repository Search & Stars 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 Search & Stars Scraper API in JavaScript

GitHub Repository Search & Stars Scraper API through CLI

GitHub Repository Search & Stars Scraper OpenAPI definition

GitHub Repository Search & Stars Scraper API

GitHub Repo Search — Stars, Language & Topics

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GitHub Repository Scraper

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