# ScrapingDaddy, free: GitHub repository API

> Get full details of a GitHub repository: description, owner, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, topics, license and dates.

ScrapingDaddy's GitHub repository API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 repositories. It returns all 10 key fields we check: Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.
We haven't run ScrapingDaddy through [our GitHub repository API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 96 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.431 per 1,000 repositories or less.
[GitHub's $21 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/github/21-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 repositories: as little as $0.0019. GitHub's $21 monthly plan covers up to 10,800,000 repositories a month at no extra cost.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [GitHub](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/github/21-monthly/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-github-repository/llms.txt) are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/free
- [GitHub repository API: 6 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingdaddy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapingdaddy.com/v1/github/repo`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingdaddy.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com/api-reference/github/repo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapingDaddy (https://scrapingdaddy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Description: ✓
- Language: ✓
- Topics: ✓
- License: ✓
- Dates: ✓
- Stars: ✓
- Forks: ✓
- Watchers: ✓
- Open issues: ✓
- Owner: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 repositories: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 182 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get full details of a GitHub repository: description, owner, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, topics, license and dates.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: For as long as your paid subscription remains active, ScrapingDaddy grants you a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, revocable license to access, retrieve, store, analyze, and distribute, whether commercially or otherwise, the publicly available data delivered via ScrapingDaddy's API [...] you may not manipulate or supplement data in any way that misrepresents what was actually returned by our API, or that could reasonably cause harm to any third party. [...] you agree not to use any data obtained through ScrapingDaddy to (a) expose, publish, or exploit private or personally sensitive information, or (b) engage in any activity that violates applicable law, causes harm to individuals, or damages public interest.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of url or owner with repo
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/github/repo

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

repository ID, name, full name, description, owner, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, topics, license, language, created at, updated at, default branch, homepage, size, archived

## ScrapingDaddy's plans (6)

- [ScrapingDaddy, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## ScrapingDaddy's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/github/repo`: [ScrapingDaddy, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrapingdaddy/free/llms.txt)

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- [ChocoData, $19 monthly, Vibe, GET /api/v1/github/repository](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/chocodata/19-monthly-vibe-get-api-v1-github-repository/llms.txt): $0.704 per 1,000, 40% complete, live
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapingdaddy.com/api-reference/github/repo?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
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