# Github Email Commit Scraper (`saswave/github-email-commit-scraper`) Actor

$0.9 / 1000 results. From a Github repository url, extract all emails from commits. Allow you to generate a list of emails from targeted github repositories

- **URL**: https://apify.com/saswave/github-email-commit-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SASWAVE](https://apify.com/saswave) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Social media
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 44 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 3 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.90 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### GitHub Emails From Commits Scraper

Extract publicly visible email addresses from GitHub commit history.

This actor scans a GitHub repository and extracts email addresses found in commit metadata — helping you analyze contributor identity, map organizations, and detect duplicate accounts.

### ✅ What This Scraper Does

From a GitHub repository URL, this actor:

Scans commit history

Extracts commit author emails

Counts occurrences per email

Returns clean, structured data

Supports large repositories

Works without API keys

Produces deduplicated output

### Inputs

- start url = repository url to scrape emails from commits

### Outputs

returns a list of informations on emails and number of occurence

### 🧠 Use Cases

This tool is useful for:

Contributor analysis

Organization mapping

Developer identity research

Data quality validation

Commit history audits

Duplicate account detection

Security investigations

Research and compliance purposes

### 🔐 Compliance & Ethics Notice

This actor only extracts publicly available emails from commit data.

### 🛟 SUPPORT

Share your runs with the developer team and create issues on error to help us improve actor quality.

You might discover edge case we didn't test yet

We stay available anytime

# Actor input Schema

## `branches` (type: `array`):

Optional, to focus on specific branches and not all, can be empty

## `urls` (type: `array`):

for example: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness

## `max_page` (type: `integer`):

0 = no limit

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "branches": [
    "main",
    "master"
  ],
  "urls": [
    "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness"
  ],
  "max_page": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "branches": [
        "main",
        "master"
    ],
    "urls": [
        "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("saswave/github-email-commit-scraper").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 = {
    "branches": [
        "main",
        "master",
    ],
    "urls": ["https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("saswave/github-email-commit-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "branches": [
    "main",
    "master"
  ],
  "urls": [
    "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness"
  ]
}' |
apify call saswave/github-email-commit-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,saswave/github-email-commit-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OIJkKngC5gZrYZk2J/builds/mHxkBlmOPwLCD3HaV/openapi.json