Find Open-Source Bounties Without Spending Hours Searching GitHub

You want to contribute to open source, build your skills, and find projects where your work may be rewarded. But finding worthwhile paid opportunities can take hours of searching through GitHub issues, reading scattered comments, and separating genuine monetary rewards from feature requests, reputation points, and other noise.

GitHub Bounty & Security Issue Intelligence Scraper helps you spend less time searching and more time evaluating opportunities.

The Actor scans open GitHub issues for textual evidence of monetary rewards, analyzing issue titles, labels, and comments to identify potential bounty opportunities. It filters common non-cash signals, such as reputation points and in-game currency, and identifies references to bounty platforms including Algora, Polar, and Opire when supported by the available issue data.

What you get

• Potential bounty opportunities: Open GitHub issues containing detected evidence of monetary rewards.
• Less noise: Filtering designed to exclude common non-cash reward signals.
• Useful context: Reward amounts and bounty-platform references extracted from available issue data.
• Direct source links: Visit the original GitHub issue to review the details and decide whether it fits your skills and interests.

Built to help you search smarter

Whether you are an independent developer looking for your next contribution or a security researcher exploring potential opportunities, this Actor helps organize the search so you can focus on the issues worth investigating.

An important note about reward availability

This Actor detects textual evidence of rewards and classifies whether an issue references a recognized third-party bounty platform vs. a direct maintainer promise; it does not independently verify real-time fund availability or claim status. Always review the original issue and the relevant platform terms before investing time in a contribution.

Spend less time digging through issues. Spend more time finding work worth exploring.

Input Parameters

• query (string, optional): Custom search query (default: is:issue is:open label:bounty).
• language (string, optional): Target programming language (e.g. typescript, python, rust).
• minRewardUsd (number, optional): Minimum reward filter in USD (default: 50).
• maxResults (number, optional): Maximum results to return (default: 30, max: 500).
• timeoutMs (number, optional): Request timeout in milliseconds (default: 15000).

Output Dataset

Outputs structured JSON records containing:

• issueNumber: GitHub issue identifier
• repository: Repository full name (owner/repo)
• title: Issue title
• url: Direct link to GitHub issue
• rewardAmount: Parsed reward in USD
• currency: Currency code (USD)
• isVerified: Boolean indicating whether the issue references a recognized third-party bounty platform vs. a direct maintainer promise
• matchedPattern: Extraction source (label, comment, or title)

Testing & Robustness

Includes a unit test suite covering:

• Reward extraction from labels, comments, and title brackets
• Non-cash false positive filtering (points, reputation, in-game currency)
• Third-party bounty platform vs maintainer promise classification
• Network timeout handling and safe fallback defaults