# GitHub Repository Insights (`receptional_blender/github-repo-insights`) Actor Turn any list of GitHub repos, users/orgs or a search query into clean, structured JSON — stars, forks, watchers, open issues, language, topics, license, homepage and timestamps. Powered by the public GitHub REST API; no login required, add a token to raise the rate limit. - **URL**: https://apify.com/receptional\_blender/github-repo-insights.md - **Developed by:** [Assia Fadli](https://apify.com/receptional_blender) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.01 / 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. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## GitHub Repository Insights Turn GitHub repositories into clean, structured data. Point this actor at specific repos, at whole users/organizations, or at a GitHub search query, and get back one tidy JSON row per repository — stars, forks, watchers, open issues, language, topics, license, homepage and timestamps. It runs on the official **[GitHub REST API](https://docs.github.com/en/rest)**. No login and no proxy are needed; an optional personal access token only raises the rate limit. ### Why use it - **Three ways in, one shape out.** Mix explicit repos, user/org listings and a search query in a single run — every source produces the same flat record. - **Never fails on one bad input.** A missing repo (404) or a rate-limit hit (403) becomes a labelled `error` row; the run keeps going. - **No dependencies to fear.** Just the Apify SDK and Node 20's built-in `fetch`. - **Pay only for what you get.** Billed per delivered repository (pay-per-event) — error rows are never charged. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `repos` | array | — | Repositories to fetch, each as `"owner/name"` (e.g. `"apify/crawlee"`). | | `searchQuery` | string | — | Optional GitHub repository search query. Returns the most-starred matches first. | | `users` | array | — | Optional list of GitHub usernames/organizations. Fetches each account's repositories. | | `maxResults` | integer | `30` | Max repositories per source (per user and for the search query). Capped at 100 by the API. | | `githubToken` | string (secret) | — | Optional personal access token. Raises the rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests/hour. | Provide at least one of `repos`, `users` or `searchQuery`. You can combine all three. #### Example input ```json { "repos": ["apify/crawlee", "facebook/react"], "searchQuery": "web scraping language:python stars:>1000", "users": ["apify"], "maxResults": 30 } ```` ### Output Each dataset record is a flat repository object: ```json { "fullName": "apify/crawlee", "owner": "apify", "name": "crawlee", "description": "Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library…", "stars": 18500, "forks": 810, "watchers": 18500, "openIssues": 130, "language": "TypeScript", "topics": ["crawler", "scraper", "playwright", "puppeteer"], "license": "Apache-2.0", "homepage": "https://crawlee.dev", "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee", "createdAt": "2021-05-31T14:15:11Z", "updatedAt": "2024-06-01T00:00:00Z", "pushedAt": "2024-06-01T00:00:00Z", "size": 45000, "defaultBranch": "master", "archived": false, "isFork": false } ``` | Field | Description | | --- | --- | | `fullName` | Repository full name (`owner/name`). | | `owner` | Owner login. | | `name` | Repository name. | | `description` | Repository description. | | `stars` | Stargazer count. | | `forks` | Fork count. | | `watchers` | Watcher count. | | `openIssues` | Open issues + pull requests count. | | `language` | Primary language. | | `topics` | Array of repository topics. | | `license` | SPDX license identifier (e.g. `MIT`, `Apache-2.0`). | | `homepage` | Project homepage URL, if set. | | `url` | Link to the repository on GitHub. | | `createdAt` | Creation timestamp (ISO 8601). | | `updatedAt` | Last metadata update timestamp (ISO 8601). | | `pushedAt` | Last push timestamp (ISO 8601). | | `size` | Repository size in kilobytes. | | `defaultBranch` | Default branch name. | | `archived` | Whether the repository is archived. | | `isFork` | Whether the repository is a fork. | When an input can't be fetched, its row is `{ "input": "", "error": "" }` instead — the run continues. ### Rate limits The GitHub REST API allows **60 requests/hour** unauthenticated. Providing a `githubToken` raises this to **5,000 requests/hour**; a read-only token with no scopes is enough. Hitting the limit produces an `error` row (HTTP 403) rather than crashing the run. ### Data source This actor uses the official GitHub REST API: - Base URL: `https://api.github.com` - Repo details: `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}` - User repos: `GET /users/{user}/repos?sort=updated` - Search: `GET /search/repositories?q=&sort=stars&order=desc` Requests send the required `User-Agent` and `Accept: application/vnd.github+json` headers. ### Billing This actor uses the **pay-per-event** pricing model. You are charged once per repository successfully delivered to the dataset (event `repo-scraped`). Error rows are never charged. *** Built by **Assia Fadli**. Licensed under **MIT**. # Actor input Schema ## `repos` (type: `array`): Specific repositories to fetch, each as "owner/name" (e.g. "apify/crawlee"). ## `searchQuery` (type: `string`): Optional GitHub repository search query. Returns the most-starred matches first. Supports GitHub search syntax, e.g. "web scraping language:python stars:>1000". ## `users` (type: `array`): Optional list of GitHub usernames or organizations. Fetches each account's repositories, most recently updated first. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of repositories to return per source (per user, and for the search query). Capped at 100 by the GitHub API. ## `githubToken` (type: `string`): Optional GitHub personal access token. Not required, but raises the rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests per hour. A read-only token with no scopes is enough. ## Actor input object example ```json { "repos": [ "apify/crawlee", "facebook/react" ], "users": [ "apify" ], "maxResults": 30 } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "repos": [ "apify/crawlee", "facebook/react" ], "maxResults": 30 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("receptional_blender/github-repo-insights").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "repos": [ "apify/crawlee", "facebook/react", ], "maxResults": 30, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("receptional_blender/github-repo-insights").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "repos": [ "apify/crawlee", "facebook/react" ], "maxResults": 30 }' | apify call receptional_blender/github-repo-insights --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=receptional_blender/github-repo-insights", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "GitHub Repository Insights", "description": "Turn any list of GitHub repos, users/orgs or a search query into clean, structured JSON — stars, forks, watchers, open issues, language, topics, license, homepage and timestamps. Powered by the public GitHub REST API; no login required, add a token to raise the rate limit.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "TqmHhYrFX2hoUeYZj" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/receptional_blender~github-repo-insights/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-receptional_blender-github-repo-insights", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/receptional_blender~github-repo-insights/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-receptional_blender-github-repo-insights", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/receptional_blender~github-repo-insights/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-receptional_blender-github-repo-insights", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "repos": { "title": "Repositories", "type": "array", "description": "Specific repositories to fetch, each as \"owner/name\" (e.g. \"apify/crawlee\").", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "searchQuery": { "title": "Search query", "type": "string", "description": "Optional GitHub repository search query. Returns the most-starred matches first. Supports GitHub search syntax, e.g. \"web scraping language:python stars:>1000\"." }, "users": { "title": "Users / organizations", "type": "array", "description": "Optional list of GitHub usernames or organizations. Fetches each account's repositories, most recently updated first.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxResults": { "title": "Max results", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of repositories to return per source (per user, and for the search query). Capped at 100 by the GitHub API.", "default": 30 }, "githubToken": { "title": "GitHub token (optional)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional GitHub personal access token. Not required, but raises the rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests per hour. A read-only token with no scopes is enough." } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```