# Github Pull Request Scraper Api (`fresh_cliff/github-pull-request-scraper-api`) Actor

Extract GitHub pull requests with commits, reviews, comments & merge data. Monitor PR velocity, track code review metrics, analyze team productivity. Export to JSON/CSV for DevOps analytics, CI/CD automation & reporting. No API token needed. Fast Playwright scraper for developers & managers.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fresh\_cliff/github-pull-request-scraper-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Brennan Crawford](https://apify.com/fresh_cliff) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Integrations
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.99/month + usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#rental-actors

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## GitHub Pull Request Scraper & API

Extract pull requests, reviews, comments, commits, and merge status from any GitHub repository. Monitor PR activity, analyze code review metrics, and track contribution statistics with this fast, production-ready Playwright scraper.

### 🚀 Key Features

- **Comprehensive PR Data**: Extract titles, states, authors, timestamps, labels, and more
- **Detailed Statistics**: Get commits count, changed files, additions/deletions, and review metrics
- **Flexible Filtering**: Filter by PR state (open, closed, merged) and limit results
- **Fast & Reliable**: Built with Playwright for stable, production-ready scraping
- **Export Ready**: Output to JSON or CSV for analytics, dashboards, and integrations
- **No Authentication Required**: Scrape public repositories without GitHub API tokens

### 📊 Use Cases

- **DevOps Analytics**: Track PR velocity, review times, and team productivity
- **Code Review Monitoring**: Monitor PR activity and review patterns
- **Open Source Insights**: Analyze contribution patterns in OSS projects
- **Team Metrics**: Generate reports on code review efficiency
- **Competitive Intelligence**: Track development activity in competitor repositories
- **Research & Analysis**: Study PR trends and collaboration patterns

### 🎯 What Gets Scraped

Each pull request includes:

- **Basic Info**: Title, number, state (Open/Closed/Merged), URL
- **Author Details**: Username and profile URL
- **Timestamps**: Created, updated, merged, and closed dates
- **Statistics**: Comments count, commits count, changed files
- **Code Changes**: Lines added and deleted
- **Metadata**: Labels, reviewers, base/head branches
- **Repository**: Owner and repo name

### 📝 Input Configuration

```json
{
  "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode",
  "state": "all",
  "maxPRs": 50,
  "includeDetails": true
}
````

#### Input Parameters

- **repositoryUrl** (required): Full GitHub repository URL
- **state** (optional): Filter PRs by state - `all`, `open`, or `closed` (default: `all`)
- **maxPRs** (optional): Maximum number of PRs to scrape, 1-500 (default: `50`)
- **includeDetails** (optional): Include detailed stats like commits and file changes (default: `true`)

### 📤 Output Format

```json
{
  "title": "Add support for TypeScript 5.0",
  "number": 12345,
  "state": "Merged",
  "author": "username",
  "author_url": "https://github.com/username",
  "created_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z",
  "merged_at": "2024-01-20T14:45:00Z",
  "comments_count": 15,
  "commits_count": 8,
  "changed_files": 23,
  "additions": 456,
  "deletions": 123,
  "labels": ["enhancement", "typescript"],
  "reviewers": ["reviewer1", "reviewer2"],
  "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/12345",
  "repository": "microsoft/vscode",
  "base_branch": "main",
  "head_branch": "feature/ts5-support"
}
```

### 🔧 How to Use

1. **Create a free Apify account** at [apify.com](https://apify.com)
2. **Search for "GitHub Pull Request Scraper"** in Apify Store
3. **Configure input**: Add repository URL and optional filters
4. **Click Start** and wait for results
5. **Export data**: Download as JSON, CSV, or integrate via API

### ⚡ Performance

- Scrapes **50 PRs in ~2-3 minutes**
- Handles repositories with thousands of PRs
- Optimized for speed with Playwright
- Automatic retry on network errors

### 🛠️ Technical Details

- **Runtime**: Python 3.11 with Playwright
- **Browser**: Chromium (headless)
- **Rate Limiting**: Respectful scraping with delays
- **Error Handling**: Robust error recovery and logging

### 💡 Pro Tips

- Set `includeDetails: false` for faster scraping if you don't need commit/file stats
- Use `state: "open"` to monitor active PRs only
- Increase `maxPRs` for comprehensive historical analysis
- Schedule regular runs to track PR trends over time

### 📊 Integration Examples

#### Slack Notifications

Monitor new PRs and send alerts to your team channel

#### Analytics Dashboards

Feed PR data into Tableau, PowerBI, or custom dashboards

#### CI/CD Pipelines

Trigger workflows based on PR activity

#### Research Projects

Analyze OSS development patterns and collaboration

### 🔒 Privacy & Compliance

- Only scrapes publicly available data
- No authentication or API tokens required
- Respects GitHub's robots.txt
- Compliant with GitHub's Terms of Service for public data

### 🆘 Support

Need help? Have questions?

- [Apify Documentation](https://docs.apify.com)
- [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-python/issues)
- [Apify Discord](https://discord.apify.com)

### 📜 License

This actor is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

***

**Built with ❤️ using [Apify](https://apify.com) and [Playwright](https://playwright.dev)**

**Keywords**: GitHub scraper, pull request scraper, PR analytics, code review metrics, GitHub API alternative, DevOps tools, repository analytics, open source insights, contribution tracking, GitHub data extraction

# Actor input Schema

## `repositoryUrl` (type: `string`):

GitHub repository URL (e.g., https://github.com/owner/repo)

## `state` (type: `string`):

Filter PRs by state

## `maxPRs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pull requests to scrape (default: 50)

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Include detailed stats like commits, changed files, additions/deletions (slower but more complete)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode",
  "state": "all",
  "maxPRs": 50,
  "includeDetails": true
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fresh_cliff/github-pull-request-scraper-api").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fresh_cliff/github-pull-request-scraper-api").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call fresh_cliff/github-pull-request-scraper-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fresh_cliff/github-pull-request-scraper-api",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Github Pull Request Scraper Api",
        "description": "Extract GitHub pull requests with commits, reviews, comments & merge data. Monitor PR velocity, track code review metrics, analyze team productivity. Export to JSON/CSV for DevOps analytics, CI/CD automation & reporting. No API token needed. Fast Playwright scraper for developers & managers.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "1fUi9bC1J9Q5keakv"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/fresh_cliff~github-pull-request-scraper-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-fresh_cliff-github-pull-request-scraper-api",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/fresh_cliff~github-pull-request-scraper-api/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-fresh_cliff-github-pull-request-scraper-api",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/fresh_cliff~github-pull-request-scraper-api/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-fresh_cliff-github-pull-request-scraper-api",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "repositoryUrl"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "repositoryUrl": {
                        "title": "Repository URL",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "GitHub repository URL (e.g., https://github.com/owner/repo)"
                    },
                    "state": {
                        "title": "PR State Filter",
                        "enum": [
                            "all",
                            "open",
                            "closed"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Filter PRs by state",
                        "default": "all"
                    },
                    "maxPRs": {
                        "title": "Maximum PRs to Scrape",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of pull requests to scrape (default: 50)",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "includeDetails": {
                        "title": "Include Detailed Stats",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Include detailed stats like commits, changed files, additions/deletions (slower but more complete)",
                        "default": true
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```