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Best GitHub user repository API in 2026

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Scrappa, ScrapingIsNotACrime and ScrapeCreators are the best GitHub user repository API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 4 providers and rank all 4 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan and each part of the plan's score. We rank 39 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $0.0024. Scrappa charges for each page of results. We count 100 repositories on each page to get the $0.0024 price.

Every GitHub user repository API provider we score, ranked

  1. Scrappa, $500 pack: Overall score 95.7, Data score 100, $0.0024 per 1,000 repositories
  2. ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack: Overall score 49.1, Data score 21, $0.017 per 1,000 repositories
  3. ScrapeCreators, $47 pack: Overall score 47.8, Data score 61
  4. AnyAPI, top-up from $10: Overall score 41.3, Data score 47

  1. #1 Scrappa: GitHub user repository API

    Scrappa, $500 pack

    It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, Dates, Stars, Forks.

    Overall score
    95.7
    $ per 1,000
    $0.0024
    Price score
    100
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 39
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 repositories than this plan: 0
    Data score
    100
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 2,423 other calls
    Performance score
    88
    • This call's median time on 1 November 2026, minus the baseline: 0.928 s
    • ScrapeCreators, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.818 s
    • On 1 November 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9992 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 100 out of 100.

  2. #2 ScrapingIsNotACrime: GitHub user repository API

    ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack

    It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, Dates, Stars, Forks.

    Overall score
    49.1
    $ per 1,000
    $0.017
    Price score
    57
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 39
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 repositories than this plan: 19
    Data score
    21
    Cost to get started score
    72
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $199
    Bundle score
    97
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: GET /instagram/profile/{username} · GET /instagram/profile/{username}/contact and 31 more
    Performance score
    59
    • This call's median time on 1 November 2026, minus the baseline: 1.393 s
    • ScrapeCreators, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.818 s
    • On 1 November 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.2089 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 21 out of 100.

  3. #3 ScrapeCreators: GitHub user repository API

    ScrapeCreators, $47 pack

    It returns all 8 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Open issues.

    Overall score
    47.8
    Price score
    0
    • $ per 1,000 repositories: none. The provider's pages give this plan's price, but not how many repositories it pays for.
    • $ per 1,000 accounts the provider can't find: the provider's pages don't say
    Data score
    61
    Cost to get started score
    82
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $47
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 199 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 1 November 2026, minus the baseline: 0.818 s
    • ScrapeCreators, the fastest benchmarked provider: 0.818 s
    • On 1 November 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 accounts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6105 out of 1 on those 20 accounts. That gives this plan a Data score of 61 out of 100.

The Data score on GitHub user repository APIs

This score, out of 100, shows how many of an account's repositories a provider's call returns. The score also shows how many fields the provider's call returns for each repository. We ask for the first page of each account's repositories, using the account's username. We also read each account's list of repositories on GitHub, within minutes of calling the providers. For each account, we look at the first 100 repositories. We match each repository the call returned to the account's list on GitHub by its name. We count the repositories the provider's call returned, up to 100. We take the number of repositories the account has from the account's list on GitHub, up to 100. We count the repositories that had each field, such as the stars and the license. We divide each field's count by the highest count we saw, from any provider or from the account's list on GitHub. We don't count a provider's value when two other providers agree on a different value. We skip a provider's 0 when two other providers give a count above 0. A live repository changes between calls. We don't check the last push, the update time or a count above 0 against the other providers' answers. When we compare a provider with the others, we count the account's list on GitHub as one more provider. We leave out a part we can work out from the owner and the name, such as the repository's web address. We leave out a part that is the same on every repository we called. We average the results for the repositories and the fields for each account. We average those account results over all accounts. Each account counts the same. An account with no repository in the answer counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer accounts with the other providers on those same accounts. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy accounts. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer accounts than the benchmark has.

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