You can access the GitHub Stars 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

$echo '{
<  "start_urls": [
<    {
<      "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee"
<    }
<  ]
<}' |
<apify call sauain/github-stars --silent --output-dataset

GitHub Stars API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use GitHub Stars locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the Apify CLI

$npm i -g apify-cli
$apify login

Other API clients include:

GitHub Stars API in Python

GitHub Stars API in JavaScript

GitHub Stars OpenAPI definition

GitHub Stars API

Github Profile Scraper

saswave/github-profile-scraper

GitHub User Profile Scraper. Extracts data from GitHub profiles, including followers, following, LinkedIn, Twitter, achievements and much more. Ideal for developers, researchers, and marketers. From a list of Github profile or a repository stargazers link

SASWAVE

Github Users Scraper

getdataforme/github-users-actor

This actor works well and helps to scrape the users on github repository.

GetDataForMe

Github Search Scraper

saswave/github-search-scraper

Github search scraper. Get all data from search results list

SASWAVE

Github Users Scraper

dtrungtin/github-users-scraper

Github Users Scraper is an Apify actor for extracting users or emails from Github. It allows you to extract all watchers, stargazers, and members from a repository page.

Tin

215

4.0

Github User Scraper

hello.datawizard-owner/github-User-Info-Scraper

datawizards

Github emails from commits

saswave/github-emails-from-commits

From a Github repository url, extract all emails from commits and their occurence number. Allow you to generate a list of emails from targeted github repositories

SASWAVE

Github User Profile Scraper

powerful_bachelor/Github-User-Profile-Scraper

The GitHub User Profile Scraper extracts vital info from GitHub profiles, including followers, following, LinkedIn, Twitter, achievements and much more. Ideal for developers, researchers, and marketers, it supports multiple profiles and exports data in various formats.