# Github User  Scraper (`hello.datawizards/github-user-info-scraper`) Actor

Extract GitHub user profiles with github-User-Info-Scraper. Get repositories, followers, bio, organizations, websites, and popular projects in JSON. Ideal for developer research, open-source tracking, community insights, and portfolio analysis with Apify Proxy support.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hello.datawizards/github-user-info-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [datawizards](https://apify.com/hello.datawizards) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 23 total users, 0 monthly users, 96.9% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

***

### 👤 github-User-Info-Scraper

Effortlessly extract GitHub user profiles with the **github-User-Info-Scraper** Apify Actor. This tool fetches detailed user data, including repository counts, bio, followers, and popular repositories, using GitHub profile URLs. Perfect for developer research, community analysis, or open-source project tracking.

> ⚠️ **Note:** Activate **Apify Proxy** to prevent scraping blocks. Running without a proxy may result in limited data or failures.

***

### 🚀 How github-User-Info-Scraper Works

- Run the **github-User-Info-Scraper** to retrieve structured GitHub user profile data.
- Provide a GitHub profile URL in the **`github_urls`** field (e.g., `"https://github.com/mark"`).
- Optionally, set an **`item_limit`** to control the number of profiles scraped.
- Enable **Apify Proxy** in `proxyConfiguration` to ensure reliable scraping.
- Receive clean JSON results, ready for developer analytics, portfolio reviews, or automation.

***

### 🧾 Input Configuration

Use this sample input to get started:

```json
{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "github_urls": "https://github.com/mark",
  "item_limit": 10
}
```

- **`github_urls`**: The GitHub user profile URL to scrape.
- **`item_limit`** (optional): Maximum number of profiles to process.
- **`proxyConfiguration`**: Enable Apify Proxy with the Residential group for best results.

***

### 📦 Output Sample

The scraper returns an array of user profile data, including:

- Repository URL and full name
- Repository count, followers, and following
- Bio, organization, website, and Twitter details
- Popular repositories with names, descriptions, and star counts

Here’s a sample output:

```json
[
  {
    "repository_url": "https://github.com/mark",
    "full_name": "Mark Josef",
    "repository_count": "40",
    "profile_description": "",
    "bio": "",
    "followers": "92",
    "following": "26",
    "organization": "Division by Zero, LLC",
    "website": "http://mcphage.com/",
    "twitter": null,
    "popular_repositories": [
      {
        "name": "shard",
        "description": "A lightweight snippet sharing & loading system, built on top of Gists.",
        "stars": 22
      },
      {
        "name": "autosaves",
        "description": "Smart, skinnable HTML elements that automatically save to the database",
        "stars": 9
      },
      {
        "name": "company_ruby_quiz",
        "description": "Company Ruby Quiz",
        "stars": 9
      },
      {
        "name": "DrawRace",
        "description": "A flash AS2 prototype of a 2D top-down racing game with course editor.",
        "stars": 6
      },
      {
        "name": "string_formatter",
        "description": "StringFormatter: a library for defining custom strf-style methods for your objects",
        "stars": 5
      },
      {
        "name": "Bloxley-Tutorials",
        "description": "Tutorials for using the Bloxley Framework",
        "stars": 5
      }
    ]
  }
]
```

***

### 📌 Use Cases

- **Developer Research**: Analyze GitHub user profiles for hiring or collaboration.
- **Open-Source Analysis**: Track popular repositories and contributor activity.
- **Community Insights**: Study follower and following metrics for network analysis.
- **Portfolio Review**: Collect data on developer projects and skills.

***

### 📞 Support

For custom outputs, desired modifications, or bug reporting, reach out to us:

- 📧 **<hello.datawizard@gmail.com>**
- 🔗 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/data-wizards-aa8080342)

> 💡 **Tip:** Use the subject **“github-User-Info-Scraper Support Request”** for faster assistance.

***

### 👤 github-User-Info-Scraper

Effortlessly extract GitHub user profiles with the **github-User-Info-Scraper** Apify Actor. This tool fetches detailed user data, including repository counts, bio, followers, and popular repositories, using GitHub profile URLs. Perfect for developer research, community analysis, or open-source project tracking.

> ⚠️ **Note:** Activate **Apify Proxy** to prevent scraping blocks. Running without a proxy may result in limited data or failures.

***

### 🚀 How github-User-Info-Scraper Works

- Run the **github-User-Info-Scraper** to retrieve structured GitHub user profile data.
- Provide a GitHub profile URL in the `github_urls` field (e.g., `"https://github.com/mark"`).
- Optionally, set an `item_limit` to control the number of profiles scraped.
- Enable **Apify Proxy** in `proxyConfiguration` to ensure reliable scraping.
- Receive clean JSON results, ready for developer analytics, portfolio reviews, or automation.

***

### 🧾 Input Configuration

Use this sample input to get started:

```json
{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "github_urls": "https://github.com/mark",
  "item_limit": 10
}
```

- `github_urls`: The GitHub user profile URL to scrape.
- `item_limit` (optional): Maximum number of profiles to process.
- `proxyConfiguration`: Enable Apify Proxy with the Residential group for best results.

***

### 📦 Output Sample

The scraper returns an array of user profile data, including:

- Repository URL and full name
- Repository count, followers, and following
- Bio, organization, website, and Twitter details
- Popular repositories with names, descriptions, and star counts

```json
[
  {
    "repository_url": "https://github.com/mark",
    "full_name": "Mark Josef",
    "repository_count": "40",
    "profile_description": "",
    "bio": "",
    "followers": "92",
    "following": "26",
    "organization": "Division by Zero, LLC",
    "website": "http://mcphage.com/",
    "twitter": null,
    "popular_repositories": [
      {
        "name": "shard",
        "description": "A lightweight snippet sharing & loading system, built on top of Gists.",
        "stars": 22
      },
      {
        "name": "autosaves",
        "description": "Smart, skinnable HTML elements that automatically save to the database",
        "stars": 9
      },
      {
        "name": "company_ruby_quiz",
        "description": "Company Ruby Quiz",
        "stars": 9
      },
      {
        "name": "DrawRace",
        "description": "A flash AS2 prototype of a 2D top-down racing game with course editor.",
        "stars": 6
      },
      {
        "name": "string_formatter",
        "description": "StringFormatter: a library for defining custom strf-style methods for your objects",
        "stars": 5
      },
      {
        "name": "Bloxley-Tutorials",
        "description": "Tutorials for using the Bloxley Framework",
        "stars": 5
      }
    ]
  }
]
```

***

### 📌 Use Cases

- **Developer Research**: Analyze GitHub user profiles for hiring or collaboration.
- **Open-Source Analysis**: Track popular repositories and contributor activity.
- **Community Insights**: Study follower and following metrics for network analysis.
- **Portfolio Review**: Collect data on developer projects and skills.

***

### 📞 Support

For custom outputs, desired modifications, or bug reporting, reach out to us:

- 📧 **hello.datawizard@gmail.com**
- 🔗 LinkedIn

> 💡 **Tip:** Use the subject **“github-User-Info-Scraper Support Request”** for faster assistance.

***

# Actor input Schema

## `github_urls` (type: `string`):

Input the Github users profile urls that you want to scrape

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Specifies proxy servers that will be used by the scraper in order to hide its origin.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "github_urls": "https://github.com/rahul",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "github_urls": "https://github.com/rahul",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hello.datawizards/github-user-info-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "github_urls": "https://github.com/rahul",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hello.datawizards/github-user-info-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "github_urls": "https://github.com/rahul",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call hello.datawizards/github-user-info-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hello.datawizards/github-user-info-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/fuUvYxhGtgAWpz27K/builds/xnTyR5V56mcssl6i7/openapi.json