GitHub Repo Monitor

Check whether an open-source project is active, popular, or quietly abandoned — across as many repositories as you like, in one run.

Reads GitHub's documented public REST API. No scraping, no login.

What you get

Field	Description
fullName / owner / name	Repository identity
description / homepage / url	What it is and where it lives
stars / forks / watchers	Popularity signals
openIssues	Open issue count
language / topics	Primary language and declared topics
license	SPDX identifier where declared
createdAt / lastPushAt	Age and most recent activity
daysSincePush	Days since the last commit landed
isStale	True if idle longer than your threshold
isArchived / isFork	Archived or fork status
latestRelease / latestReleaseAt	Newest non-prerelease tag and date
releases	Last 5 releases with tag, name, date

Input

{
  "repos": ["facebook/react", "https://github.com/rust-lang/rust", "apify/crawlee"],
  "includeReleases": true,
  "staleAfterDays": 180,
  "githubToken": ""
}

Option	Default	What it does
repos	required	owner/name or a full GitHub URL — both work
includeReleases	true	Attach the last 5 releases
staleAfterDays	180	Days of no pushes before flagging stale
githubToken	empty	Optional. Raises GitHub's limit from 60/hour to 5,000/hour

On the token: you do not need one for small batches. GitHub allows 60 unauthenticated requests per hour, which covers roughly 30 repositories with releases enabled. Beyond that, supply a personal access token — a read-only one with no scopes is enough. If the limit is reached the run stops cleanly and tells you when it resets, rather than silently returning junk.

Who this is for

• Security and platform teams auditing dependencies for abandonment — isStale, isArchived and daysSincePush together are a solid signal
• Engineering managers deciding whether a library is safe to adopt
• Investors and analysts tracking project momentum across an ecosystem
• Developer-tool companies monitoring competitors
• Anyone comparing many repositories on the same axes at once

Pairs naturally with our Package Registry Monitor: that one gives you a package's repository URL, this one tells you whether that repository is still alive.

Honest limits

• Private repositories return not found unless your token can see them.
• watchers is the true subscriber count, not the star count GitHub sometimes shows in that field.
• A repository with no releases returns empty releases — common and not an error.
• Without a token, large batches will hit the rate limit. The run stops and says so.

Pricing

Pay per event. Charged per repository resolved. Failed lookups cost nothing.

Changelog

1.0 — First release. Popularity, activity, releases and staleness detection.