Crawling API / GitHubGitHub Scraper.
GitHub Scraper.
Any page, fully rendered.
Send any GitHub URL and get the fully rendered HTML back, through residential proxies with anti-bot handling built in.
Turn it into JSON with the generic extractor.
Live crawl feed · GitHub1.24M req/minStreaming
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01 Live demo
Any GitHub URL in. HTML or JSON out.
The Crawling API, typed live. Get the rendered HTML, or switch to the generic extractor for JSON. Hover to pause and read.
Run your first request in minutes. Up to 10,000 free requests, no credit card.Start free
02 Capabilities
One API, everything GitHub throws at you.
GitHub renders repos client-side and rate limits aggressively. The Crawling API loads the full page in a real browser, reaches it through residential IPs, and hands you clean HTML or JSON.
render
Full JavaScript rendering
A real browser executes the page, so the README, stars, forks, languages and file tree all render and land in the HTML, not just the initial markup.
proxies
140M residential IPs
Every request rotates a residential IP across 30 geographies, so you reach GitHub like a real local visitor.
anti-bot
Blocks handled for you
Rate limits, bot checks and challenge pages are cleared automatically. No personal access tokens to juggle, nothing to maintain.
format
HTML or JSON
Get the full rendered HTML, or add scraper=generic-extractor to return title, content, images and links as structured JSON.
extras
Screenshots and async
The same call can capture a full-page screenshot, or run asynchronously with webhooks and cloud storage.
one token
One API for every site
The Crawling API works on any URL, so the same token covers GitHub and everything else you crawl. See the live demo.
03 Output
Rendered HTML, or clean JSON.
By default you get the rendered HTML. Add the generic-extractor and the same page comes back as typed JSON.
{
"title": "anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: The official Python SDK",
"favicon": "https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg",
"meta": { "description": "The official Python library for the Anthropic API", "keywords": "..." },
"content": "The official Python SDK for the Anthropic API. Installation: pip install anthropic...",
"canonical": "https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python",
"images": [ "..." ],
"og_images": [ "..." ],
"links": [ "..." ]
}
Page
title · string canonical · string favicon · string
Meta
meta.description · string meta.keywords · string
Content
content · string
Media
images · array og_images · array
Links
links · array
04 How it works
From URL to data in one call.
Every GitHub request moves through the same path. You send a URL, we operate everything in between.
01
Send the URL
Pass any public GitHub URL with your token: a repository, an issue, a profile or a search.
02
Rotate a proxy
A residential IP and geography that reach GitHub cleanly, drawn from 140M IPs across 30 regions.
03
Render the page
A real browser loads the repository page so the README, stars, forks, languages and file tree render before capture.
04
Clear anti-bot
GitHub's rate limits and bot checks are handled automatically. No tokens to juggle, nothing to maintain.
05
Return HTML or JSON
The fully rendered HTML comes back, or typed JSON when you add the generic extractor.
05 Use cases
What teams build on GitHub data.
USE / 01OSS
Open-source & developer intelligence
Track repositories, stars, forks, languages and releases to map the open-source landscape and who is building what.
USE / 02Trends
Dependency & trend tracking
Watch topics, search pages and release activity to spot rising libraries, frameworks and tooling early.
USE / 03Recruiting
Recruiting & dev-rel
Mine public profiles and contributions to find maintainers, source talent and reach the right developer communities.
USE / 04Training
Training data for code models
Feed clean README and page text into models, RAG pipelines and coding agents through one API.
USE / 05Security
Security & supply-chain research
Monitor public repositories, issues and dependencies to study packages and supply-chain risk.
USE / 06Coverage
Any URL, one API
Crawl repos, issues, profiles, topics and search, plus any other site you need.
06 Notes
Good to know when scraping GitHub.
Rendered like a real browser
GitHub renders repos client-side; the Crawling API runs a real browser so the README, stars, forks, languages and file tree all load before capture.
HTML by default, JSON on request
You get the full rendered HTML. Add scraper=generic-extractor for parsed title, content, images and links, or parse the HTML yourself.
No GitHub tokens or API limits
You point at the public web page, so there are no personal access tokens to rotate and no REST API rate limits to budget around.
Public repos and profiles only
The Crawling API reads publicly visible pages, with no login, so you get what a logged-out visitor sees.
07 Why Crawlbase
Built to crawl GitHub at scale.
The Crawling API runs on the same network that serves 46,000+ paying customers and 70,000+ developers. No proxies to buy, no browsers to run, nothing to patch when GitHub changes.
99%
Average request success rate
140M
Residential IPs, plus 98M datacenter
30
Geographies for accurate local results
20/s
Requests per second by default, more on request
One token, official SDKs for Python, Node and Ruby, and a 99.99% uptime network underneath.
08 FAQ
GitHub scraping questions.
Send the GitHub URL to the Crawlbase Crawling API with your token. Crawlbase rotates a residential proxy, renders the page in a real browser, clears bot checks, and returns the fully rendered HTML. Add scraper=generic-extractor to get structured JSON instead.
Yes. By default the Crawling API returns rendered HTML; add the generic extractor (scraper=generic-extractor) to receive title, meta, content, images and links as JSON, or parse the HTML yourself.
No. You point the Crawling API at the public web page, so there are no personal access tokens to issue or rotate and no REST API rate limits to budget around. Crawlbase reaches GitHub for you.
Crawlbase routes each request through rotating residential IPs across 30 geographies and clears bot checks automatically. You do not manage proxies or juggle tokens, and there is nothing to maintain when GitHub changes its setup.
Yes. A real browser loads the repository page, so the rendered README, stars, forks, languages and file tree are all present in the HTML, not just the initial markup.
Any public URL: repositories, issues and pull requests, user and organization profiles, topic pages and search results. The same API works on any other site too.
Start free with up to 10,000 requests and no credit card. Paid plans scale with usage, and the same token works across the Crawling API and every Crawlbase scraper.
Start scraping GitHub.
Skip the tokens and rate limits.
Free to begin with up to 10,000 requests. One token for the Crawling API and every scraper.