Github Profile Scraper

Extract public data from GitHub user profiles and repository stargazers at scale.

Powerful data collection for developers, researchers, recruiters, and marketers.

This actor scrapes detailed GitHub profile information including social links, achievements, activity stats, organizations, pinned repositories, and bio data.

🚀 Features

🔎 GitHub Profile Scraping

Scrape any public GitHub profile and collect:

Username

Full name

Bio description

Location

Website(s)

Email (if public)

GitHub achievements

Followers & following

Contribution statistics

Sponsorship history

Pinned repositories

README profile content

Highlight badges

First commit year

⭐ Repository Stargazers Extraction

Pass a GitHub repository URL and automatically extract all stargazer profiles.

Use this for:

Identifying project supporters

Competitor audience analysis

Developer lead generation

Influencer discovery

Community building

🔗 Social Profiles Detection

Automatically extracts external profiles if available:

LinkedIn

X (Twitter)

Personal website or blog

⚡ Built for Automation

Supports:

Batch processing

Apify schedules

Webhook deliveries

Integration-ready JSON output

How to extract cookies from your browser

• install EditThisCookie chrome extension
• login to your account and go to your linkedin feed page
• Use the extension and click "export"
• Paste the cookies in the input "cookies" from the actor

The apify documentation has a tutorial on how to do it with screenshots, https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/log-in-by-transferring-cookies#export-your-cookies go to the export your cookies section

WHY PROVIDE COOKIE

Some profile have private email, only visible when logged in

Providing cookie session will help you extract more contact informations

Outputs

{
  "user": "https://github.com/rasbt",
  "name": "Sebastian Raschka",
  "username": "rasbt",
  "followers": "19.9k",
  "following": "39",
  "bio": "Machine Learning and AI researcher & currently research engineer at a startup",
  "location": "Madison, WI",
  "emails": [],
  "organization": "@Lightning-AI",
  "websites": [
    "https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com"
  ],
  "other_socials":[],
  "achievements": [
    "Mars 2020 Contributor",
    "Public Sponsor",
    "YOLO",
    "Starstruck",
    "Pull Shark",
    "Pair Extraordinaire",
    "Galaxy Brain",
    "Arctic Code Vault Contributor",
    "Quickdraw"
  ],
  "sponsoring": [],
  "last_year_contribution_number": "1444",
  "X": "https://twitter.com/rasbt",
  "LinkedIn": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianraschka/",
  "highlights": [
    "Pro"
  ],
  "organization_followed": [
    "https://github.com/conda-forge",
    "https://github.com/psa-lab",
    "https://github.com/iPRoBe-lab",
    "https://github.com/Raschka-research-group",
    "https://github.com/BioPandas"
  ],
  "first_year_commit": "2013",
  "pinned_repos": [
    {
      "name": "LLMs-from-scratch",
      "url": "https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch",
      "description": "Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step",
      "languages": [
        "Jupyter Notebook"
      ],
      "stars": "11.3k",
      "forks": "904"
    }
  ],
  "readme": [
    "Hi there, I am Sebastian 👋",
    "and I am a machine learning and AI researcher with a strong passion for education!",
    "⚡️ As Staff Research Engineer at",
    "Lightning AI",
    ", I am working on the intersection of AI research, software development, and large language models (LLMs).",
    "🎓 Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the",
    "University of Wisconsin-Madison",
    "(tenure track 2018-2025) until 2022, focusing on deep learning and machine learning research.",
    "🎮 But most of all, I am a passionate coder who loves open-source software!",
    "📖 I also love writing and authored several books!",
    "(Links and more info",
    "here",
    ".)",
    "If you are interested in more details, check out",
    "my website",
    "!",
    "Socials",
    "I am also more active on social platforms than I should be!",
    "📝 Substack Blog",
    "Ahead of AI",
    "👨‍💻 Twitter",
    "(@rasbt)",
    "🖇️ LinkedIn",
    "in/sebastianraschka"
  ]
}

🎯 Use Cases

Ideal for:

Developer recruitment

Lead intelligence

Marketing segmentation

Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Community analytics

Influencer research

Startup scouting

Sales automation

✅ Benefits

✅ No GitHub API key required ✅ No login needed ✅ Works on public profiles ✅ Automation ready ✅ High data completeness ✅ Easy to scale

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