GitHub Scraper

Extract trending repositories, star counts, contributor data, and code snippets from GitHub. Built on spider-browser .

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target
github.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

github-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://github.com/trending");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const repos = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article.Box-row").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("h2 a")?.textContent?.trim().replace(/\s+/g, "");
    const desc = el.querySelector("p")?.textContent?.trim();
    const stars = el.querySelector("[href$='/stargazers']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const lang = el.querySelector("[itemprop='programmingLanguage']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const today = el.querySelector(".float-sm-right")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) repos.push({ name, desc, stars, lang, today });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: repos.length, repos: repos.slice(0, 25) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for github.com.

Structured JSON from github.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/github.com/

Repo nameDescriptionStarsForksLanguageToday stars

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/github.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/github.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/github.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

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