Platforms
GitHub

GitHub Scraper API

Pull GitHub users, repositories and developer activity as JSON. Failed requests are free.

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Data

What you get from GitHub.

Users

Name, location and follower count.

Trends

Trending developers and trending repositories.

Repositories

Name, description, language, stars, forks and open issues.

Developer activityContribution calendar, activity and pull requests.

Uses

What you can build with GitHub data.

Evaluate repositories

Compare stars, forks and open issues across repositories.

Find developers

Follow trending developers, then check their repositories and activity.

Spot trends

Follow trending repositories as they appear.

Example

Your first request.

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Send a requestPass a handle, URL or keyword with your key.
Use the JSONThe same shape comes back from every platform.

1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user" \2  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3  --data-urlencode "handle=torvalds"

1import os2import requests34params = {5    "handle": "torvalds",6}7res = requests.get(8    "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user",9    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10    params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15    print(body["data"])16else:17    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/github/user");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3  "handle": "torvalds"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11  console.log(body.data);12} else {13  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}

200 OKSample response

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_61963aec2e8934ef860d4a93",
  "data": {
    "object": "profile",
    "platform": "github",
    "id": "1024025",
    "handle": "torvalds",
    "name": "Linus Torvalds",
    "headline": null,
    "url": "https://github.com/torvalds",
    "kind": "person",
    "bio": null,
    "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1024025?v=4",
    "banner_url": null,
    "verified": null,
    "is_private": null,
    "external_url": null
    ...
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}