# socially, free: GitHub repository API

> Description, homepage, language, license, default branch, topics, and exact stars, forks, open issues and watchers, from a github.com/owner/repo link.

socially's Free plan for the GitHub repository API costs $0.00 per 1,000 repositories. We check each provider's docs for 10 fields. socially's docs list 8: Description, Language, Topics, License, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues.
We haven't run socially through [our GitHub repository API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 170 plans for GitHub repository APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.431 or less per 1,000 repositories. [47 GitHub repository API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt) [GithubTrends' free plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/githubtrends/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 52.0 out of 100.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 repositories: $0.022. [UAPI's CNY 4.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/uapi/cny-4-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 repositories a month: about $0.73.
[Agent Margin Router's $199 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/agent-margin-router/199-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of repositories, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly/llms.txt) and [Pushbuild](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/pushbuild/top-up/llms.txt) are the best GitHub repository API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/free
- [GitHub repository API in 2026: the 16 best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-github-repository-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.socially.run/v1/posts/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://socially.run/docs/en/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- Sold by: socially (https://socially.run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 80%
- Description: ✓
- Language: ✓
- Topics: ✓
- License: ✓
- Stars: ✓
- Forks: ✓
- Watchers: ✓
- Open issues: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Profile lookup · Batch · Website read · Open Graph card · Username search: fast · Username search: full · Trending topics · YouTube search · News search · Instagram search · TikTok search · Instagram hashtag search · GitHub search

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Description, homepage, language, license, default branch, topics, and exact stars, forks, open issues and watchers, from a github.com/owner/repo link.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: Keep only what you have a lawful basis to store, set a retention period for your use and honor removal requests.
- Use data: The results are yours to use within the acceptable use policy. What you may not do: Target a private individual for harm: stalking, harassment, intimidation, doxxing, blackmail, or locating somebody who does not want to be found. Profile people on protected characteristics, or make a decision with legal or similarly significant effects (employment, credit, housing, insurance, policing) based only on our results. Re-identify or contact somebody who opted out, or route around a suppression. Resell raw results as a people-search or background-check product, or scrape our API to build one. Run email lookups on lists you did not obtain lawfully, on bought lists, or to build a marketing audience without a lawful basis. Work around rate limits, quotas, suppressions, or the three-way outcome, by presenting a lookup we could not check as a fact. Use the results to attack accounts: credential stuffing, account takeover, phishing. Anything unlawful where you are, or where the person is.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 calls a month
- Expires: Monthly credits reset on the 1st, UTC

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 0.17 (10 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: refresh
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/posts/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

description, homepage, language, license, default branch, topics, stars, forks, open issues, watchers

## socially's plans (7)

- [socially, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/19-pack/llms.txt): $9.50 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/79-pack/llms.txt): $7.90 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $349 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/349-pack/llms.txt): $6.98 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/19-monthly/llms.txt): $6.333 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/49-monthly/llms.txt): $4.083 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [socially, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/149-monthly/llms.txt): $2.98 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours

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

- `POST /v1/posts/lookup`: [socially, free](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/free/llms.txt)

## socially's APIs (19)

- [socially GitHub repository API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/free/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn post details API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/socially/free/llms.txt)
- [socially Video search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/socially/free/llms.txt)
- [socially Facebook page API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially Facebook page API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub user repository API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/github-user-repository-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially GitHub user repository API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/github-user-repository-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially Instagram post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially Instagram post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially Instagram profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially Instagram profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn company post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn company post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn company data API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn company data API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially TikTok profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially TikTok profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially TikTok video API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially TikTok video API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially X post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially X post API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially X profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially X profile API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially YouTube channel API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially YouTube channel API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/batch](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-batch/llms.txt)
- [socially YouTube channel video API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/profiles/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/socially/free-post-v1-profiles-lookup/llms.txt)
- [socially Web scraping API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/web/read, Website read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/socially/free/llms.txt)
- [socially Web scraping API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/web/read, Website read, refreshed](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/socially/free-post-v1-web-read-website-read-refreshed/llms.txt)

## socially: GitHub repository API alternatives

[socially alternatives: other GitHub repository API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/socially-alternatives.txt)

We list socially's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to socially in price per 1,000 repositories. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [socially, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socially/149-monthly/llms.txt): $2.98 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [ProLevelMax, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt): $2.70 per 1,000, 90% complete, live
- [Scavio, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/scavio/30-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Anysite, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/anysite/49-monthly/llms.txt): $3.267 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/socialcrawl/49-pack/llms.txt): $3.267 per 1,000, 70% complete, live

## Sources

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

- https://api.socially.run/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/docs/en/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/docs/en/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/aup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/github?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing
- https://socially.run/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=github-repository-api-pricing