GitHub Releases Scraper

Fetch release history for any repo with assets, sizes and download counts.

$0.005 per page
200 free credits
Maintained by Hyperscrape

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https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/github-releases-scraper?repos=cli%2Fcli

About

Extracts the release history of public GitHub repositories via the official REST API (api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases) — no API key needed.

Each item is one release: tag, title, publish date, prerelease/draft flags, author, release-notes excerpt, tarball/zipball links, and the full list of binary assets with file size, content type, individual download counts and a per-release totalDownloads sum — great for tracking adoption of CLI tools and desktop apps.

Inputs

repos — repositories as owner/name (full GitHub URLs also accepted).
maxReleasesPerRepo — how far back to go (newest first).
includePrereleases / includeDrafts — filter flags.

Source: official public JSON API. Unauthenticated rate limit is 60 requests/hour; set a GITHUB_TOKEN env var on the runner to raise it.

Input

`repos`* array	Repositories as owner/name (or full GitHub URLs), one per line.
`maxReleasesPerRepo` integer	Maximum releases to collect per repository (newest first).(default: 10)
`includePrereleases` boolean	Also return releases marked as pre-release.(default: true)
`includeDrafts` boolean	Also return draft releases (only visible with a token that can see them).(default: false)

{
  "repos": [
    "cli/cli",
    "ollama/ollama"
  ],
  "maxReleasesPerRepo": 5
}

Output fields

repotagnameurlpublishedAtisPrereleaseauthorassetsassetsCounttotalDownloadsnotesExcerpttarballUrlzipballUrl

Authenticated API (optional)

Only for account features — saved datasets, schedules, higher limits. API reference

curl -X POST \
  https://hyperscrape.com/api/v1/scrapers/github-releases-scraper/runs?waitForFinish=120 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"repos":["cli/cli","ollama/ollama"],"maxReleasesPerRepo":5}'

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