Search GitHub with one call.
Read GitHub, repos, issues, code and users, without building or maintaining a scraper. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them.
1 credit a call
50 free credits on signup, no card
failed calls: 0 credits
50 free credits on signup, no card
failed calls: 0 credits
1The call
curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \ "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/github/search?query=social+media+api&type=repositories"
This call costs 1 credit. A new account starts with 50 free credits on any platform: create a key in the dashboard and this command runs as-is.
2Why not build this yourself
GitHub's REST API is public, but unauthenticated calls are capped at 60 requests an hour per IP - enough to prototype, not to run anything. Past that you are managing tokens, per-resource rate budgets and pagination yourself. Included so code search sits in the same schema as social.
3What comes backcaptured 2026-08-27
{
"success": true,
"platform": "github",
"data": {
"total": 12587,
"items": [
{
"id": "1138419884",
"platform": "github",
"type": "repo",
"title": "cporter202/social-media-scraping-apis",
"text": "A curated collection of social media scraping APIs and tools for Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, YouTube, Fac...",
"url": "https://github.com/cporter202/social-media-scraping-apis",
"author": "cporter202",
"created_at": "2026-01-20T16:44:05Z",
"metrics": {
"score": 2197
},
"extra": {
"language": "JavaScript",
"topics": [
"facebook-api",
"facebook-scraping",
"linkedin-bot",
"linkedin-scraping",
"social",
"social-media",
"social-media-automation"
],
"forks": 449
}
}
]
},
"credits_used": 1
}Items from GitHub carry: author, created_at, extra, id, metrics, platform, text, title, type, url.
4Characteristics
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| /v1/github/issue | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/issue/comments | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/profile | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/profile/repos | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/repo | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/repo/issues | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/repo/readme | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/repo/releases | 1 credit a call |
| /v1/github/search | 1 credit a call |
| Typical latency | 521 ms, measured 2026-08-27 |
| Coverage | Public repositories, issues, pull requests, users and releases. No private repos. |
| Data | Publicly available content only, nothing behind a login. See the public data notice. |
| Reference | Every GitHub endpoint, its parameters and its price: API reference |
5Other platforms
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