GitHub Contributor Contacts & Developer Emails Scraper

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"
}

The most complete GitHub scraper for developer leads. It returns every contact field a public GitHub profile exposes (email, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, blog, company, location), recovers emails from public commit history, adds derived signals (top languages, total stars, pinned repos, organisations), and gives you four ways to find developers plus nine filters to target exactly the people you need.

📥 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

This is a GitHub scraper, GitHub email finder and developer lead generation tool in one. Point it 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 (profile email plus emails mined from public commit metadata), verified social accounts (LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, personal site), and derived signals (top languages, total stars across owned repos, top repos, pinned repos, and the organisations the developer belongs to).

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/github-email-scraper	bovi/github-profile-email-enricher	automation-lab/github-contributors-scraper	scrapesage/github-scraper
Find by repo contributors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Find by org members	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Find by GitHub user search	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Email from public commits	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Verified LinkedIn / X / Bluesky / Mastodon	Yes	No	X only	No	No
Pinned repos	Yes	No	No	No	No
Top languages + total stars	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Public organisations	Yes	No	No	No	No
onlyWithEmail / onlyHireable / minFollowers filters	Yes	No	No	No	Partial
minContributions filter	Yes	No	No	No	No
Commit date window (since / until)	Yes	No	No	No	No
Exclude bot accounts	Yes	No	No	No	No
Never charges failed or empty runs	Yes	Charges even with no email	Charges even with no email	Yes	Yes
AI lead score + summary (opt-in)	Yes	No	No	No	Lead score only
Approx. adoption (total users)	Growing (100+ runs)	~137	~17	~2	~6
Approx. price per 1,000 records	~$17 to $20	~$1	~$4.75	~$0.02	~$2.20

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.

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
onlyWithEmail	boolean	no	Return only developers with a recovered email	false
onlyHireable	boolean	no	Return only developers with the hireable flag set	false
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
company	string	Company from the profile
location	string	Location from the profile
blog	string	Website or blog URL
twitterUsername	string	X / Twitter handle
linkedin	string	LinkedIn URL from verified social accounts
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
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. The actor backs off and retries automatically when GitHub throttles.

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 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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