GitHub Search Scraper Scrape GitHub search results at scale: repositories, marketplace listings, GitHub Actions, integrations, and public metadata. This actor lets you automate GitHub search queries and extract structured data from GitHub Marketplace listings, repository actions, and integration pages Ideal for product research, competitor analysis, market intelligence, and software discovery. ## 🔍 What This Scraper Can Extract Depending on your GitHub query, this actor returns structured results across different GitHub resources: ## ✅ GitHub Marketplace Listings App and integration name Owner / publisher Install count Verification status Categories Description (short & full) Pricing availability Links (docs, website, privacy policy, TOS) ## ✅ GitHub Actions & Automations Action name Repository owner Description Stars Dependents count Action metadata Usage ranking Repository ID ## ✅ Search Highlights Matched query terms Category classification Marketplace type Ownership verification Integration metadata ## How to extract cookies from your browser - install EditThisCookie chrome extension - login to your account and go to your linkedin feed page - Use the extension and click "export" - Paste the cookies in the input "cookies" from the actor The apify documentation has a tutorial on how to do it with screenshots, https://docs.apify.com/tutorials/log-in-by-transferring-cookies#export-your-cookies go to the export your cookies section ## Output Output can change depending on the type of your search, start a test run and check output results json { "type": "marketplace_listing", "id": "6181", "state": "verified", "name": "Metabob-app", "free": false, "primary_category": "AI Assisted", "secondary_category": "Code review", "is_verified_owner": true, "slug": "metabob-app", "owner_login": "MetabobProject", "resource_path": "/marketplace/metabob-app", "installation_count": 3004, "full_description": "Review your code using AI to detect problems and vulnerabilities before code gets merged.\n", "short_description": "AI-powered code review and analysis tool for Python", "extended_description": null, "listing_logo_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/ml/6181?s=400&v=4", "recommended": false, "marketplace_listing": { "listing": { "id": 6181, "state": 3, "name": "Metabob-app", "slug": "metabob-app", "short_description": "AI-powered code review and analysis tool for Python", "full_description": "## Review your code using AI to detect problems and vulnerabilities before code gets merged.", "extended_description": "## AI-assisted code review\nUncover bugs, security problems, and style issues. Unlike linters and rules-based static code analysis tools, Metabob not only pinpoints errors specific to a single line but also detects logical and context-based problems such as unhandled edge cases, race conditions, memory leaks, and many more! Metabob's AI detects problems from hundreds of different categories.\n\nWhen Metabob is configured to your repository, the analysis will automatically run when a Pull Request is made! Metabob explains the detected problems in natural language.\n\nTo view the results from Metabob's analysis, open the Pull Request and the results will appear under the \"Checks\" tab. ", "primary_category_id": 39, "secondary_category_id": 10, "privacy_policy_url": "https://metabob.com/privacy-policy.html", "tos_url": "https://metabob.com/user-terms.html", "company_url": "https://metabob.com/", "status_url": "", "support_url": "https://metabob.com/contact-us.html", "documentation_url": "", "pricing_url": null, "bgcolor": "ffffff", "light_text": false, "learn_more_url": null, "installation_url": null, "how_it_works": null, "hero_card_background_image_id": 0, "direct_billing_enabled": false, "by_github": false, "listable_type": "Integration", "listable_id": 47250, "copilot_app": false } } }, { "type": "repository_action", "id": "9757", "name": "Setup Python", "free": null, "primary_category": "Utilities", "secondary_category": null, "is_verified_owner": true, "slug": "setup-python", "owner_login": "actions", "resource_path": "/marketplace/actions/setup-python", "highlights": { "description": null, "name.ngram": [ "Setup <em>Python</em>" ] }, "description": "Set up a specific version of Python and add the command-line tools to the PATH\n", "stars": 1737, "dependents_count": 1198830, "icon_svg": "<svg width=\"91\" height=\"91\" viewBox=\"0 0 91 91\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\">\n<path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M91 45.5C91 70.6289 70.629 91 45.5 91C20.371 91 0 70.6289 0 45.5C0 20.3711 20.371 0 45.5 0C70.629 0 91 20.3711 91 45.5ZM33.2774 70.9818L70.876 45.916C71.1728 45.7181 71.1728 45.2819 70.876 45.084L33.2774 20.0182C32.9451 19.7967 32.5 20.0349 32.5 20.4343V70.5657C32.5 70.9651 32.9451 71.2033 33.2774 70.9818Z\" fill=\"#FFFFFF\"/>\n</svg>\n", "repository_action": { "repository_action": { "id": 9757, "path": "action.yml", "name": "Setup Python", "description": "Set up a specific version of Python and add the command-line tools to the PATH", "icon_name": "code", "color": "0366d6", "featured": false, "repository_id": 192625525, "rank_multiplier": 1, "slug": "setup-python" } } } ## 🧠 Use Cases This actor is perfect for: SaaS market research Developer tools discovery GitHub competitor monitoring GitHub integration analysis Feature comparison AI tools research Market trend analysis Automation exploration ## ✅ Advantages Works on GitHub Marketplace and Actions Supports large-scale extraction Authentication supported via cookies Structured JSON output Easy to automate with Apify Works without GitHub API limits ## 🛟 SUPPORT Share your runs with the developer team and create issues on error to help us improve actor quality. 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