GitHub Repositories Scraper - Search & Intelligence
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from $2.00 / 1,000 results
GitHub Repositories Scraper - Search & Intelligence
Search public GitHub repositories with advanced qualifiers and export stars, forks, issues, topics, license, language, owner, timestamps, archive status, and canonical URLs. Built for research, benchmarking, and data pipelines.
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GitHub Repositories Scraper
Search public GitHub repositories with GitHub's documented REST API and export decision-ready repository metadata as JSON, CSV, or Excel. Advanced GitHub qualifiers work directly, while an optional token raises the upstream request allowance without changing the output contract.
What you get
- Repository and owner identity, canonical URLs, description, homepage, and default branch
- Stars, forks, issues, watchers, size, language, topics, license, and visibility
- Fork, archived, and disabled status plus creation, update, and push timestamps
- Query provenance and API rate-limit logging in a 256 MB HTTP Actor
Output fields
Common fields are repositoryId, nodeId, name, fullName, description, url, apiUrl, homepage, owner, ownerType, ownerUrl, language, topics, licenseSpdx, defaultBranch, stars, forks, openIssues, watchers, sizeKb, isFork, isArchived, isDisabled, visibility, createdAt, updatedAt, pushedAt, searchQuery, and source.
Example output
Input parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
queries | GitHub repository search expressions, including advanced qualifiers. |
sort | Best match, stars, forks, help-wanted issues, or recent updates. |
order | Ascending or descending order. |
maxResultsPerQuery | Maximum repositories saved for each query. |
maxResults | Maximum unique repositories saved across all queries. |
apiToken | Optional secret GitHub token for higher request limits. |
Use cases
Open-source landscape analysis, developer-tool lead generation, dependency research, acquisition sourcing, ecosystem maps, maintainer discovery, competitive benchmarking, technology adoption research, and repository monitoring.
Limitations
GitHub exposes at most 1,000 search results for a single query. Split broad research into precise qualifiers. Without a token, GitHub applies a smaller search quota. This Actor exports public repository metadata only; it does not clone code, access private repositories, or infer security quality from popularity.
Compared to alternatives
Thirdwatch uses the official API, supports native advanced qualifiers, preserves query provenance, and charges $0.002 per result at the base tier—well below the $0.01-$0.02 observed on leading alternatives. Start with the GitHub Repositories Scraper, browse all Thirdwatch Actors, or read the GitHub repository-data guide.
FAQ
Do I need a GitHub token? No for small public searches. Add one when running many queries or scheduled monitoring.
What is charged? One result event for each unique public repository saved. Overlap between queries is not charged twice.
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Last verified: 2026-07
