GitHub Email Scraper - Contributors & Developer Lead Finder

The most complete GitHub email scraper and developer lead finder on Apify. Turn any GitHub repository, organisation, username list or user search into a clean, contact-rich lead list: public email, LinkedIn, X, company, location, followers and more. Built for developer recruiting, technical sourcing and dev-tool sales.

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns:

{
  "login": "sophiebits",
  "name": "Sophie Alpert",
  "company": null,
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "email": "git@sophiebits.com",
  "emailSource": "commit",
  "blog": "https://sophiebits.com/",
  "twitterUsername": "sophiebits",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiebits/",
  "socialAccounts": [
    { "provider": "bluesky", "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/sophiebits.com" },
    { "provider": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiebits/" },
    { "provider": "twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/sophiebits" }
  ],
  "bio": "principal engineer. powered by dumplings!",
  "hireable": null,
  "followers": 10496,
  "following": 0,
  "publicRepos": 178,
  "publicGists": 28,
  "contributions": 1300,
  "topLanguages": ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "C", "LilyPond"],
  "topRepos": ["react-dom-mini:601", "es3ify:113", "adventofcode:93"],
  "pinnedRepos": ["react", "react-dom-mini", "KaTeX", "adventofcode"],
  "orgs": ["reactjs"],
  "totalStars": 900,
  "isBot": false,
  "accountCreatedAt": "2008-04-11T22:42:39Z",
  "profileUpdatedAt": "2026-08-18T20:57:59Z",
  "sourceRepo": "facebook/react",
  "sourceType": "contributor",
  "githubUrl": "https://github.com/sophiebits",
  "avatarUrl": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6820?v=4",
  "source": "GitHub",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-26T04:28:51.110Z"
}

This is a GitHub scraper, GitHub email finder and developer lead generation tool in one. It returns every contact field a public GitHub profile exposes (email, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, blog, company, location), recovers developer emails from public commit history, adds derived signals (top languages, total stars, pinned repos, organisations), and gives you four ways to find developers plus filters to target exactly the people you need. No GitHub token required.

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• How we compare
• Use cases
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting
• Related scrapers

What it does

Point this GitHub email scraper at repositories, organisations, a list of usernames, or a GitHub user search, and it returns clean, deduplicated developer-lead rows ready for a CRM, spreadsheet or outreach tool.

It finds developers four ways:

• Repository contributors by owner/repo or full URL (e.g. facebook/react).
• Organisation members for any org (public members).
• Direct usernames you already have.
• GitHub user search by main language, location and minimum followers, or a raw search query.

For every developer it captures the public profile (name, company, location, bio, hireable flag, followers, following, public repos and gists), the best public email it can find, verified social accounts (LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, Instagram, npm, personal site), and derived signals (top languages, total stars across owned repos, top repos, pinned repos, and the organisations the developer belongs to). This is the depth that turns a plain GitHub contributors scraper into an outreach-ready developer email list.

Deep email search. Most developers leave the profile email blank, so an email pulled from the profile alone misses the majority of a list. This actor also recovers the address a developer publishes in their own commit history, in every mode: repository contributors, organisation members, usernames you supply, and user search. In testing on well-known maintainers with no profile email at all, it recovered a usable address for every one of them.

Ready for outreach, not just for a spreadsheet. Each row arrives with the fields a sequence actually needs: firstName and lastName split for mail-merge, emailDomain with an isCorporateEmail flag so you can separate work addresses from Gmail, companyClean and companyGithubOrg resolved from the raw company text, an absolute blogUrl plus blogDomain, per-network social URLs as their own columns, and lastActiveAt so you can drop dormant accounts before you send.

Everything comes from public GitHub data. No login, no cookies, no browser automation. Add an optional GitHub token to raise the rate limit for large jobs.

How we compare

We do not compete on price. Several GitHub scrapers on Apify are cheaper per record. We compete on completeness of contact data, number of filters, and valid derived fields, so a single run gives you a usable lead list instead of thin rows you then have to enrich elsewhere. Here is an honest comparison.

Capability	This actor	louisdeconinck	bovi	automation-lab	scrapesage	fayoussef	contacts-api
Find by repo contributors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Find by org members	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Find by GitHub user search	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Email from public commits	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Deep email search in every mode (not just repo contributors)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Corporate vs free-mailbox flag (isCorporateEmail)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
First / last name split for mail-merge	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Activity recency (lastActiveAt, lastPushedRepo)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Verified LinkedIn / X / Bluesky / Mastodon	Yes	No	X only	No	No	LinkedIn / X only	No
Pinned repos	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Top languages + total stars	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Public organisations	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
onlyWithEmail / onlyHireable / minFollowers filters	Yes	No	No	No	Partial	Yes	No
minContributions filter	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
onlyCorporateEmail / activeSince / minTotalStars filters	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
companyContains / locationContains filters	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Commit date window (since / until)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Exclude bot accounts	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Never charges failed or empty runs	Yes	Charges with no email	Charges with no email	Yes	Yes	Charges per profile	Unknown
AI lead score + summary (opt-in)	Yes	No	No	No	Lead score only	No	No
Approx. price per 1,000 records	~$17 to $20	~$1	~$4.75	~$0.02	~$2.20	~$5	$4.99/mo + usage

Competitor titles for reference: louisdeconinck github-email-scraper, bovi github-profile-email-enricher, automation-lab github-contributors-scraper, scrapesage github-scraper, fayoussef github-developer-leads, contacts-api github-email-scraper-fast-advanced-and-cheapest.

Why switch to us:

• louisdeconinck/github-email-scraper is the most adopted alternative and cheaper, but it returns only login, name, email, id, avatar and profile URL, has no company, location, social or follower data, no filters, and it currently carries a 1 out of 5 star rating. We return the full profile plus verified socials and derived signals.
• bovi/github-profile-email-enricher bills you per person even when no email is recovered. We only charge for records we return, and we add LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, pinned repos, top languages and organisations that it does not have.
• automation-lab/github-contributors-scraper is very cheap but has no email mining, no social accounts and no user search. It is a contributor lister, not a lead tool.
• scrapesage/github-scraper is close on breadth and cheaper, but it lacks verified social accounts beyond commit emails, pinned repos, org membership, and the minContributions, since/until and excludeBots controls.
• fayoussef/github-developer-leads is the closest competitor on breadth (contributors, org members, user search, commit emails, languages) and is cheaper. It bills per profile even when no email is found, and it lacks pinned repos, verified Bluesky/Mastodon/YouTube accounts, public organisations, the minContributions and since/until controls, bot exclusion and the opt-in AI add-ons. If you want the deepest per-developer record and no charge on empty rows, use us; if raw price is the only factor, it is cheaper.
• contacts-api/github-email-scraper-fast-advanced-and-cheapest is a keyword-and-location email scraper: it returns page-level rows (keyword, title, URL, email), not structured developer profiles, and has no contributors, social, or profile fields. Different tool for a different job.

If your only requirement is the lowest possible price for logins and avatars, automation-lab or louisdeconinck will cost less. If you want a contact-rich lead list you can email today, this actor returns more valid fields per developer than any of them.

Use cases

• Developer recruiting and technical sourcing. Build shortlists of engineers by language, location and follower count, keep only hireable profiles or profiles with a public email, and export straight to your ATS.
• Developer-tool and API sales leads. Pull the contributors of repositories in your category, qualify them by contributions and top languages, and reach decision-making maintainers directly.
• Open-source community analysis. Map who contributes to a project or organisation, their affiliations, pinned work and total stars, for community reporting and ecosystem research.
• Contributor and maintainer outreach. Recover public commit emails and verified social accounts for a project's top contributors when you need to coordinate, sponsor or hire.
• Developer relations and sponsorship targeting. Rank developers by reach (followers, total stars) and find the channel to contact them (email, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, personal site).

Quickstart

Contributors of a repository, enriched with repo signals:

{
  "repos": ["facebook/react"],
  "maxContributors": 25,
  "includeRepos": true,
  "onlyWithEmail": false
}

Developer search by language and location:

{
  "userLanguage": "rust",
  "userLocation": "Berlin",
  "minFollowers": 500,
  "maxContributors": 50
}

Organisation members with emails only:

{
  "orgs": ["apify"],
  "onlyWithEmail": true,
  "maxContributors": 100,
  "githubToken": "ghp_your_token_for_higher_limits"
}

Input reference

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
repos	array	one source required	Repositories as owner/repo or full URLs, and/or org names to scan their top repos	["facebook/react"]
usernames	array	one source required	Specific GitHub usernames to enrich	["gaearon"]
orgs	array	one source required	Organisation names; enriches public members	["apify"]
userSearchQuery	string	one source required	Raw GitHub user-search query	language:go location:London
userLanguage	string	no	Filter search by main language	rust
userLocation	string	no	Filter search by profile location	Berlin
minFollowers	integer	no	Keep only developers with at least this many followers	500
minContributions	integer	no	For contributors, keep those with at least this many contributions	50
maxContributors	integer	no	Max developers to return (default 40, free plans capped at 10)	25
includeEmail	boolean	no	Capture profile and commit-derived email (default true)	true
includeSocial	boolean	no	Capture verified social accounts (default true)	true
includeRepos	boolean	no	Add top languages, total stars, top repos, pinned repos (default false)	true
deepEmailSearch	boolean	no	Recover a work email for developers who hide it on their profile (default true)	true
onlyWithEmail	boolean	no	Return only developers with a recovered email	false
onlyHireable	boolean	no	Return only developers with the hireable flag set	false
onlyCorporateEmail	boolean	no	Keep only company-domain emails, dropping Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and other free mailboxes	false
excludeOrganizations	boolean	no	Keep only individual developers, dropping organisation accounts	false
minTotalStars	integer	no	Keep only developers with at least this many stars across their own repos	100
minPublicRepos	integer	no	Keep only developers with at least this many public repositories	10
companyContains	string	no	Keep only developers whose company contains this text	stripe
locationContains	string	no	Keep only developers whose location contains this text	berlin
activeSince	string	no	Keep only developers who pushed public code on or after this date	2026-01-01
excludeBots	boolean	no	Skip dependabot and other bot accounts (default true)	true
since	string	no	Mine commit emails only after this ISO date	2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
until	string	no	Mine commit emails only before this ISO date	2026-01-01T00:00:00Z
githubToken	string	no	Personal access token for higher rate limits	ghp_...
withLeadScore	boolean	no	Opt-in AI lead score (paid plans only)	false
withProfileSummary	boolean	no	Opt-in AI profile summary (paid plans only)	false

Output reference

Name	Type	Description
login	string	GitHub username
name	string	Full name
email	string	Public email (profile or commit-derived), null if none is public
emailSource	string	profile or commit
emailDomain	string	Domain part of the email
isCorporateEmail	boolean	True when the email is on a company domain rather than a free mailbox
emailCandidates	array	Every distinct email found for the developer
firstName	string	First name, split for mail-merge
lastName	string	Last name, split for mail-merge
company	string	Company from the profile
companyClean	string	Company text normalised (leading @ and trailing notes removed)
companyGithubOrg	string	GitHub organisation handle when the company field is an @handle
location	string	Location from the profile
blog	string	Website or blog URL as written on the profile
blogUrl	string	Personal site normalised to an absolute URL
blogDomain	string	Hostname of the personal site
twitterUsername	string	X / Twitter handle
linkedin	string	LinkedIn URL from verified social accounts
linkedinUsername	string	LinkedIn handle parsed from that URL
twitterUrl	string	X / Twitter profile URL
mastodon	string	Verified Mastodon profile URL
bluesky	string	Verified Bluesky profile URL
youtube	string	Verified YouTube channel URL
instagram	string	Verified Instagram profile URL
facebook	string	Verified Facebook profile URL
twitch	string	Verified Twitch channel URL
reddit	string	Verified Reddit profile URL
npm	string	Verified npm profile URL
personalSites	array	Other verified personal or company sites on the profile
socialAccounts	array	All verified social accounts (provider + url)
bio	string	Profile bio
hireable	boolean	Available-for-hire flag
followers	integer	Follower count
following	integer	Following count
publicRepos	integer	Public repository count
publicGists	integer	Public gist count
contributions	integer	Contributions to the source repository
topLanguages	array	Most-used languages across owned repos
topRepos	array	Top owned repos by stars (name:stars)
pinnedRepos	array	Pinned repositories from the public profile
orgs	array	Public organisations the developer belongs to
totalStars	integer	Total stars across owned repositories
lastPushedRepo	string	Most recently pushed own repository
lastPushedAt	string	Timestamp of that push
lastCommitAt	string	Date of the developer's most recent own commit found
lastActiveAt	string	Best available public activity timestamp
userId	integer	Numeric GitHub user id
nodeId	string	GitHub GraphQL node id
accountType	string	User or Organization
siteAdmin	boolean	GitHub staff flag
accountAgeYears	number	Age of the GitHub account in years
isBot	boolean	Whether the account is a bot
accountCreatedAt	string	Account creation date
profileUpdatedAt	string	Profile last-updated date
sourceRepo	string	Repository or org the developer was found in
sourceType	string	contributor, org_member, user_search or username
githubUrl	string	GitHub profile URL
avatarUrl	string	Avatar image URL
aiLeadScore	integer	AI lead score 0 to 100 (opt-in add-on)
aiLeadTier	string	AI lead tier hot/warm/cold (opt-in add-on)
aiLeadRationale	string	One-line rationale for the AI lead score (opt-in)
aiSummary	string	AI-written developer summary (opt-in add-on)

Run via API and CLI

Start a run with the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~github-contributor-contacts-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"repos":["facebook/react"],"maxContributors":25,"includeRepos":true}'

Run with the Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/github-contributor-contacts-scraper \
  --input '{"orgs":["apify"],"onlyWithEmail":true,"maxContributors":50}'

Fetch results

Read the dataset items once the run finishes:

$curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~github-contributor-contacts-scraper/runs/last/dataset/items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN&format=json"

Swap format=json for format=csv or format=xlsx to export to CSV or Excel.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are billed per developer record returned via the result event. Optional AI add-ons (ai_lead_score, ai_profile_summary) bill only when they produce output, and only on paid Apify plans.
• No charge on failure. Empty runs, errors and no-match runs return an informational row and are not billed.
• Free plan cap. Free Apify accounts are capped at 10 records per run. Upgrade for larger jobs.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd and the actor stops emitting billable records once the limit is reached.
• Rate limits. GitHub's public API allows 60 requests per hour without a token and 5,000 per hour with one. Large repositories and searches run faster and further with a githubToken. When the token-free budget runs out, the actor delivers the developers it already collected and tells you when the limit resets, instead of stalling or failing the whole run.

FAQ and troubleshooting

Why are some emails null? Many developers keep their email private on GitHub and use a noreply commit address. We return the public profile email when present and mine public commit metadata for a real address, but we never invent one. Use onlyWithEmail to keep only records where an email was recovered.

Do you use the login-only or private data? No. Everything is public GitHub data (public REST API and public profile pages). No login, cookies or private scopes are used.

How do I search developers by location and language? Set userLanguage, userLocation and minFollowers, or pass a raw userSearchQuery. GitHub user search returns up to 1,000 matches per query.

Can I scrape GitHub without an API token? Yes. The actor works with no GitHub token using GitHub's public data. A token is optional and only raises the rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests per hour for large jobs.

Is this a GitHub email finder or a contributors scraper? Both. It lists repository contributors like a contributors scraper, then enriches each one with a public email, LinkedIn and the full profile like an email finder, so you get a ready-to-use developer email list in a single run.

Can I process many repositories or orgs in one run? Yes. repos, usernames and orgs are lists, and results are deduplicated across all sources.

What is the difference from a plain contributors lister? Beyond the login and contribution count, this actor recovers emails, verified social accounts, top languages, total stars, pinned repos and organisations, so each row is an outreach-ready lead.

Do I need a GitHub token? No, but adding one raises the rate limit from 60 to 5,000 requests per hour, which matters for large repos and searches.

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