How to Scrape GitHub Repository — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

#github #webscraping #api #python

If you need to pull GitHub Repository data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the GitHub Repository Scraper - Stars, Topics, Trending, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no GitHub Repository login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

fullName
owner
language
stars
forks
openIssues
description
updatedAt
id
name
ownerType
url
homepage
topics

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/github-repository-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install github-repository-scraper

const scrape = require("github-repository-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install github-repository-scraper

from github_repository_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`searchQuery`	string	Search Query
`language`	string	Language (optional)
`sort`	string	Sort By
`order`	string	Order
`maxRepos`	integer	Max Repositories
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy Configuration

Common use cases

Build a fresh GitHub Repository dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed GitHub Repository records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date GitHub Repository data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.