GitHub Repository & User Search (Official API)
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from $3.00 / 1,000 results
GitHub Repository & User Search (Official API)
Search GitHub repositories and users/organizations with the official REST API. Get topics, stars, forks, languages, last push, license and organization profile. No email extraction. Works without a token.
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from $3.00 / 1,000 results
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Search GitHub repositories and users/organizations through the official GitHub REST API and get clean, structured rows: topics, stars, forks, primary language, license, last push date and the public organization profile.
Works without a token. Add your own GitHub token (optional, stored as a secret) for higher rate limits.
What you get
Repositories mode — one row per repository:
fullName, htmlUrl, description, homepage, language, topics, stars, forks, openIssues, license, isFork, isArchived, createdAt, updatedAt, pushedAt, ownerLogin, ownerType, and for organization-owned repos an organization object (name, description, website, location, verified flag, public repo count, followers).
Users & organizations mode — one row per account:
login, accountType, htmlUrl, avatarUrl, and for organizations the same organization profile object.
Privacy by design
- No email addresses are collected — not from profiles, not from commits, not from organizations.
- For individual users only public account identifiers (login, profile URL, avatar) are returned; names, bios and locations of individuals are not fetched.
- GitHub's Acceptable Use Policies forbid using GitHub data for spam, unsolicited email, or selling personal information (for example to recruiters). Do not use this Actor for those purposes.
Example queries
GitHub search syntax is supported as-is:
| Goal | Mode | Query | Sort |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular scraping projects | repositories | topic:web-scraping stars:>500 | stars |
| Active Python LLM repos | repositories | topic:llm language:python pushed:>2026-01-01 | updated |
| Repos of one organization | repositories | org:apify | stars |
| Japanese organizations | users | type:org location:japan | followers |
Rate limits
The Actor follows GitHub's published limits: search allows 10 requests/minute without a token and 30/minute with one, and other REST calls 60/hour without a token. The Actor paces search pages, reads the x-ratelimit-* headers, waits when the reset is near, and otherwise stops cleanly with a warning in the SUMMARY record. GitHub returns at most 1,000 results per search query. Without a token, organization lookups are capped at 10 per run by default.
Pricing
Pay per event: you pay per result row delivered to the dataset, plus a small Actor start event.
FAQ
Do I need a GitHub token? No. The default input runs anonymously. A fine-grained token with no extra permissions is enough to raise limits.
Can it get emails of developers? No, by design.
Is this scraping? No — it only uses api.github.com endpoints documented by GitHub.
