logiover/github-repository-scraper-sample-data

GitHub Repository Scraper

Scrape GitHub repositories by search query - stars, forks, language, topics, owner, license and activity dates. Track trending projects, competitor repos or developer activity.

What the actor scrapes

🐙 GitHub Repository Scraper — Repo Search, Stars, Topics & Trending Data to JSON & CSV Scrape public repositories from GitHub using the official GitHub Search API. This GitHub scraper turns any search query into a clean, structured dataset of repositories — with stars, forks, language, topics, owner, license and activity dates — with no blocking and no browser. Export GitHub repo data to JSON, CSV or Excel. Built for scheduled, recurring runs, it lets you trac

Who this is for

This sample is useful for anyone working in other, developer tools, business who wants a quick look at the shape of the data before running the live actor at scale. Treat it as a static snapshot — counts, prices and timestamps reflect the moment the sample was captured and will drift over time.

Source

Live source: This dataset is a static sample. For fresh, customizable extractions, run the live Apify actor: logiover/github-repository-scraper

Fields

• id — unique identifier for the record
• fullName — field captured by the actor
• name — name of the entity
• owner — field captured by the actor
• ownerType — field captured by the actor
• description — textual description
• url — canonical URL of the item
• homepage — field captured by the actor
• language — content language code
• topics — field captured by the actor
• stars — field captured by the actor
• forks — field captured by the actor
• openIssues — field captured by the actor
• watchers — field captured by the actor
• license — field captured by the actor
• isArchived — boolean flag
• createdAt — creation timestamp
• updatedAt — last update timestamp
• pushedAt — timestamp
• scrapedAt — timestamp the row was scraped

Sample preview

[
  {
    "id": 54346799,
    "fullName": "public-apis/public-apis",
    "name": "public-apis",
    "owner": "public-apis",
    "ownerType": "Organization",
    "description": "A collective list of free APIs",
    "url": "https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis",
    "homepage": "https://APILayer.com/?utm_source=Github&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Public-apis-repo",
    "language": "Python",
    "topics": [
      "api",
      "apis",
      "dataset",
      "development",
      "free"
    ],
    "stars": 435015,
    "forks": 47665,
    "openIssues": 1327,
    "watchers": 435015,
    "license": "MIT License",
    "isArchived": false,
    "createdAt": "2016-03-20T23:49:42Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-14T20:16:14Z",
    "pushedAt": "2026-05-12T04:34:58Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T20:35:04.531Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 13491895,
    "fullName": "EbookFoundation/free-programming-books",
    "name": "free-programming-books",
    "owner": "EbookFoundation",
    "ownerType": "Organization",
    "description": ":books: Freely available programming books",
    "url": "https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books",
    "homepage": "https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/",
    "language": "Python",
    "topics": [
      "books",
      "education",
      "hacktoberfest",
      "list",
      "resource"
    ],
    "stars": 388297,
    "forks": 66300,
    "openIssues": 80,
    "watchers": 388297,
    "license": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
    "isArchived": false,
    "createdAt": "2013-10-11T06:50:37Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-14T19:34:19Z",
    "pushedAt": "2026-05-12T18:22:15Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-14T20:35:04.586Z"
  }
]

Snapshot stats

• Row count in this sample: 50
• Data quality flag at capture time: EXISTING_USED

License & Attribution

Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). If you use this data, please credit the source actor and link back to its Apify Store page: logiover/github-repository-scraper.

The sample is provided as-is for evaluation and research. Source websites retain their own terms of service — downstream users are responsible for complying with them when running the live actor or redistributing scraped content.