You can access the GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "query": "apify",
10    "language": "python",
11    "minStars": 100,
12}
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("straightforward_hydra/github-repo-intelligence-stars-releases-issues").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
19for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues API in JavaScript

GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues API through CLI

GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues OpenAPI definition

GitHub Repo Intelligence — Stars, Releases & Issues API

GitHub Scraper — repos, trending, users (no token)

vincentkirui/github-scraper

Structured GitHub data with no token: search repositories, find trending repos, fetch full repo details, or pull user/org profiles and their repos. Uses the public GitHub REST API.

Vincent Kirui

GitHub Scraper - Repos, Issues, PRs & Contributors

nominated_tupelo/github-scraper

Scrape GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, contributors, releases, and trending repos. Uses the official GitHub REST API. Optional GitHub token for higher rate limits.

kade

GitHub Repo Monitor — Releases, Stars, Issues & Activity

vertaizen/github-repo-monitor

OSS monitoring tool tracking any GitHub repos via the open GitHub REST API — new releases, star velocity, issues, commits & contributors. No scraping, no blocking. Monitor mode returns only NEW activity for release alerts & devtools competitive intel. MCP-ready.

Diego Moragues

GitHub Repo Scraper — Search, Details, Releases & Trending

thriftykiwi/github-repo-scraper

Scrape GitHub repository data using the public REST API and trending page. Search repos by keyword, get repo details, releases, top contributors, and trending repositories. No authentication required — uses GitHub's public API endpoints and page scraping.

Thrifty Kiwi

GitHub Repo Stats: Stars, Forks, Issues & More

scrapemint/github-repo-stats

Get the key numbers for any public GitHub project in bulk. For each repo: stars, forks, watchers, open issues, main language, license, topics, size, and the created and last updated dates. Paste repo names or links. Official GitHub API. No API key needed for small runs.

Ken M

4.0

GitHub Repo Scraper — Search Repos & Get Details

puskin/github-repo-scraper

Search GitHub repositories by keyword, language, or stars. Get detailed repo info including stars, forks, language, topics, and description via the free GitHub REST API — no authentication needed.

Giovanni Bucci

GitHub Scraper - Repos, Users & Issues

fascinating_lentil/github-repos-users-issues-scraper

Scrape GitHub repositories, users, and issues via the official GitHub API. Get stars, forks, languages, topics, issues, user profiles, and follower counts. No login needed (optional token for higher limits).

Md Jakaria Mirza

GitHub Trending Scraper — Repos, Stars & Language Rankings

samwise.agency/github-trending

Scrape GitHub Trending (daily/weekly/monthly, per language) — the list GitHub has no official API for — plus full repo details and repo search via the official REST API. Clean JSON/CSV for dev-tool market research.

samwise.agency

GitHub Scraper: Repos, Owners, Issues & Contributors

glitchbound/github-scraper

Search GitHub repositories with the full search syntax, or pull specific repos, whole organisations and user profiles. Returns stars, forks, language, topics, license, activity dates, plus optional contributors and issues. Official GitHub API: a token is optional, not required.

Daniel Meshulam

GitHub Repo Analyzer — Repository Metrics & Health

perryay/github-repo-analyzer

Extract comprehensive repository metrics from public GitHub repos. Supports single-repo lookup, batch analysis (up to 10 repos), and topic/keyword search. Returns stars, forks, language, topics, license, contributors, open issues, README preview, and timestamps. No authentication required.