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Libraries.io pricing and alternatives: GitHub user repository API

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88% complete: 7 of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe rank 36 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.
Plan: Free one of Libraries.io's 2 plans
Call: GET /api/github/{login}/repositories Libraries.io's only call for this API
API: GitHub user 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 8 key fields we check. Description, Language, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Open issues.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send login to GET /api/github/{login}/repositories. You can also send page and per_page. The call returns the account's repositories.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Libraries.io: GitHub user repository API alternatives

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

This planLibraries.io, freeScrapeCreators, freeReefAPI, free, POST /github/v1/user_reposScavio, freeScrapingIsNotACrime, free
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness88%100%75%75%75%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 pages, once1,000 pages50 pages100 pages, once
Freshnessstoredlivelivelivelive
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 legally able to enter into a binding agreementanyoneanyoneanyone

GitHub user repository API pricing: plans compared

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
  • Open issues
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Platforms · Project · Project Dependencies · Project Dependents · Project Dependent Repositories · Project Contributors · Project SourceRank · Project Search · Repository · Repository Dependencies · Repository Projects · User · User Packages · User Packages Contributions
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet repositories owned by a user.
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
The call
You sendlogin. Optional: page, per_page
MethodGET
Path/api/github/{login}/repositories
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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