GitHub public activity API

The profile's contribution activity timeline (commits, repositories created, pull requests, issues, reviews), one month a page, newest month first, pagi...

GET /v1/github/user/activity

The profile's contribution activity timeline (commits, repositories created, pull requests, issues, reviews), one month a page, newest month first, paging backward through the year.

Cost: 1 credit
Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

Name	Type	Required	Description
`handle`	string	one of	GitHub username. Also accepted as `username`, `login`.
`url`	URL	one of	Profile URL (github.com/<user>). Accepted hosts: `github.com`.
`year`	integer	no	Calendar year (2008 onward); default the current year. Range 2008 to 2100. Example `2025`.

Send at least one of handle, url. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.

Every request also accepts:

cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user/activity" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "handle=gaearon" \4  --data-urlencode "year=2025" \5  --data-urlencode "cursor=7"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "handle": "gaearon",6    "year": "2025",7    "cursor": "7",8}9res = requests.get(10    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user/activity",11    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},12    params=params,13)14body = res.json()1516if body["ok"]:17    print(body["data"])18else:19    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user/activity");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "handle": "gaearon",4  "year": "2025",5  "cursor": "7"6}).toString();7const res = await fetch(url, {8  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },9});10const body = await res.json();1112if (body.ok) {13  console.log(body.data);14} else {15  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);16}

1{2  "nodes": [3    {4      "name": "SocialScrape GitHub public activity",5      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6      "typeVersion": 4.2,7      "position": [8        0,9        010      ],11      "parameters": {12        "method": "GET",13        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user/activity",14        "sendQuery": true,15        "queryParameters": {16          "parameters": [17            {18              "name": "handle",19              "value": "gaearon"20            },21            {22              "name": "year",23              "value": "2025"24            },25            {26              "name": "cursor",27              "value": "7"28            }29          ]30        },31        "sendHeaders": true,32        "headerParameters": {33          "parameters": [34            {35              "name": "x-api-key",36              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"37            }38          ]39        }40      }41    }42  ],43  "connections": {}44}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

200 OKSample response

1{2  "ok": true,3  "credits_charged": 1,4  "credits_remaining": 4999,5  "cached": false,6  "cached_at": null,7  "request_id": "req_918c37a7eb5b316257905e23",8  "data": {9    "object": "list",10    "items": [11      {12        "object": "activity",13        "platform": "github",14        "id": "gaearon:2025-06:1",15        "type": "commits",16        "actor": {17          "id": null,18          "handle": "gaearon",19          "name": null,20          "url": "https://github.com/gaearon",21          "avatar_url": null,22          "verified": null23        },24        "repo": null,25        "created_at": null,26        "extra": {27          "details": [28            {29              "date_text": null,30              "language": null,31              "links": [32                {33                  "text": "gaearon/overreacted.io",34                  "url": "https://github.com/gaearon/overreacted.io"35                },36                {37                  "text": "21 commits",38                  "url": "https://github.com/gaearon/overreacted.io/commits?author=gaearon&since=2025-06-01&until=2025-07-01"39                }40              ],41              "repository": {42                "text": "gaearon/overreacted.io",43                "url": "https://github.com/gaearon/overreacted.io"44              },45              "text": "gaearon/overreacted.io 21 commits"46            },47            {48              "date_text": null,49              "language": null,50              "links": [51                {52                  "text": "vercel/next.js",53                  "url": "https://github.com/vercel/next.js"54                },55                {56                  "text": "1 commit",57                  "url": "https://github.com/vercel/next.js/commits?author=gaearon&since=2025-06-01&until=2025-07-01"58                }59              ],60              "repository": {61                "text": "vercel/next.js",62                "url": "https://github.com/vercel/next.js"63              },64              "text": "vercel/next.js 1 commit"65            },66            {67              "date_text": null,68              "language": null,69              "links": [70                {71                  "text": "bluesky-social/social-app",72                  "url": "https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app"73                },74                {75                  "text": "1 commit",76                  "url": "https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/commits?author=gaearon&since=2025-06-01&until=2025-07-01"77                }78              ],79              "repository": {80                "text": "bluesky-social/social-app",81                "url": "https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app"82              },83              "text": "bluesky-social/social-app 1 commit"84            }85          ],86          "month": "June 2025",87          "summary": "Created 23 commits in 3 repositories"88        }89      },90      {91        "object": "activity",92        "platform": "github",93        "id": "gaearon:2025-06:2",94        "type": "repositories",95        "actor": {96          "id": null,97          "handle": "gaearon",98          "name": null,99          "url": "https://github.com/gaearon",100          "avatar_url": null,101          "verified": null102        },103        "repo": "gaearon/analysis-solutions",104        "created_at": null,105        "extra": {106          "details": [107            {108              "date_text": "Jun 28",109              "language": "Lean",110              "links": [111                {112                  "text": "gaearon/analysis-solutions",113                  "url": "https://github.com/gaearon/analysis-solutions"114                }115              ],116              "repository": {117                "text": "gaearon/analysis-solutions",118                "url": "https://github.com/gaearon/analysis-solutions"119              },120              "text": "gaearon/analysis-solutions"121            }122          ],123          "month": "June 2025",124          "summary": "Created 1 repository"125        }126      }127    ],128    "cursor": "eyJwIjo4fQ",129    "has_more": true,130    "parent": null131  },132  "cursor": "eyJwIjo4fQ",133  "has_more": true134}

Response#

A list of Activity objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

Code	HTTP	Retry	Meaning
`invalid_params`	400	no	A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
`unsupported_url`	400	no	The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
`not_found`	404	no	The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

1{2  "ok": false,3  "error": {4    "code": "not_found",5    "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",6    "retryable": false7  },8  "credits_charged": 0,9  "request_id": "req_b3d77cb0a773a9fa4948fd89"10}

GitHub user (GET /v1/github/user)
GitHub user repositories (GET /v1/github/user/repositories)
GitHub repository (GET /v1/github/repository)
GitHub followers (GET /v1/github/user/followers)
GitHub following (GET /v1/github/user/following)
GitHub contribution calendar (GET /v1/github/user/contributions)
GitHub pull requests by a user (GET /v1/github/user/pull-requests)
GitHub trending repositories (GET /v1/github/trending/repositories)

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