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Libraries.io pricing and alternatives: GitHub repository API

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70% complete: 7 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe rank 38 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 repositories: $0.15.Scrappa, Litescrape and ScrapeCreators are the best GitHub repository API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Libraries.io's 2 plans
Call: GET /api/github/{owner}/{name} Libraries.io's only call for this API
API: GitHub repository API one of Libraries.io's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get repositories from Libraries.io's copy of GitHub. Libraries.io doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • 7 of the 10 key fields we check. Description, Language, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Open issues.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send owner and name to GET /api/github/{owner}/{name}. The call returns the repository's details.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Libraries.io: GitHub repository API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 repositories.

This planLibraries.io, freeScrappa, freeLitescrape, free, 5 free calls, GET /api/github/repositoryScrapeCreators, freeAnyAPI, free trial key
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness70%100%70%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month5 calls, once100 calls, onceabout 41 calls, once
Freshnessstoredunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone aged 13 or over with a Libraries.io account, a human ("Accounts registered by 'bots' or other automated methods are not permitted")anyone 18 or overanyoneanyone legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

Every GitHub repository API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. libraries.io
  2. libraries.io/api
  3. libraries.io/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description
  • Language
  • Topics, not in the answer
  • License
  • Dates
  • Stars
  • Forks
  • Watchers, not in the answer
  • Open issues
  • Owner, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Platforms · Project · Project Dependencies · Project Dependents · Project Dependent Repositories · Project Contributors · Project SourceRank · Project Search · Repository Dependencies · Repository Projects · User · User Repositories · User Packages · User Packages Contributions
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet info for a repository. Currently only works for open source repositories.
Data
Freshnessstored
Use dataYou may not use the service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. [...] Data provided by the Service is licensed to you under version 4.0 of the Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike license (CC BY-SA). This license grants permissive rights for users to use the data commercially, and to create and distribute derivative works, but places certain conditions on redistribution of the data, including on attribution and the terms the data can be redistributed under. Full details of the permissions granted and conditions set by the license can be found here. You may comply with Sec. 3(1)(A)(i) of CC BY-SA by using the text 'includes data gathered by Libraries.io' in your publication or 'powered by Libraries.io' if providing a service. [...] You agree not to misuse or interfere with the normal operation of the service. Examples of such interference or unauthorized access can include: (i) scanning or searching the services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, documented interfaces intended for such purposes, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in these terms, our robots.txt, or in a separate written agreement, (ii) disruption of the use or access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, overloading, flooding, or spamming the services, or (iii) circumventing any rate limits in place on the service, such as those described in our documentation.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendowner, name
MethodGET
Path/api/github/{owner}/{name}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 13 or over with a Libraries.io account, a human ("Accounts registered by 'bots' or other automated methods are not permitted")
The 48 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, description, is fork, created at, updated at, pushed at, homepage, size, stars, language, has issues, has wiki, has pages, forks, mirror URL, open issues, default branch, subscribers, repository ID, source name, license, private, contributions count, readme file, changelog file, contributing file, license file, code of conduct file, threat model file, audit file, status, last synced, rank, host type, host domain, name, SCM, fork policy, pull requests enabled, logo URL, keywords, maintenance stats refreshed, code of conduct URL, contribution guidelines URL, security policy URL, funding URLs, interesting, GitHub contributions count

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