GitHub Scraper
Get GitHub Repositories
Retrieves a user's public repositories with repo metadata like description, language, stars, forks, topics, license, visibility, default branch, and timestamps. Pass username, handle, or url. Supports pagination with cursor, plus GitHub's type, sort, and direction parameters.
1 creditNo API key neededEndpoint
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| urlstring · optional | string | optional | GitHub user URL, e.g. https://github.com/kentcdodds. Example: |
| sortstring · optional | string | optional | Sort by created, updated, pushed, or full_name. Defaults to updated. One of: |
| typestring · optional | string | optional | Repository type. Defaults to owner. GitHub also supports all and member. One of: |
| limitnumber · optional | number | optional | Maximum number of results to return from this request. Leave empty for everything this request returns. This trims the response — it does not fetch more; use the returned cursor for the next batch. The price is the same either way. |
| cursornumber · optional | number | optional | Cursor from the previous response. Defaults to 1. Default: |
| handlestring · optional | string | optional | GitHub username/handle of the user you want the repositories for |
| directionstring · optional | string | optional | Sort direction: ascending or descending. One of: |
Response schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"properties": {
"cursor": {
"type": "number"
},
"limitApplied": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "True when a Limit trimmed the results; there were more in this response."
},
"repositories": {
"type": "array"
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}
