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description

This plugin is a GitHub scraper that extracts structured data from public repository pages and user profiles directly in your browser. This extension is developed by Olostep. To get the same output at scale you can use the Olostep API.

About Olostep:
Olostep is a web search, scraping, and crawling API powering the world's leading AI startups and agents. It transforms complex, JavaScript-heavy websites into clean, structured, LLM-ready data. The API returns formats like Markdown, JSON, HTML, PDF, and screenshots. Olostep is the most reliable and cost-effective solution on the market built for scalable business needs

How does the extension work:
Open a supported page, run the extension, then copy or download the extracted data as JSON or CSV. It is built for developers, researchers, recruiters, analysts, open-source teams and AI builders who need quick access to clean repository and profile data without writing a custom scraper. This extension works locally on your browser. You can then run the same flow at scale programmatically with the Olostep API.

What you can extract:
- Repository name, description and URL
- Stars, forks and watchers
- Topics, programming languages and licence details
- README summary
- Profile bio, follower count and social links
- Pinned repositories

Key features:
- Scrape repository pages into structured JSON
- Export data as CSV for spreadsheets and analysis
- Parse user profiles and pinned repositories
- Copy or download results from the browser
- Run extraction from the active tab

Common use cases:
- Open-source research
- Developer sourcing
- Repository analysis
- Technical due diligence
- Competitive intelligence
- AI dataset preparation
- Structured web data collection

Scrape GitHub by Olostep is a lightweight example of structured web data extraction. For teams that need to move beyond single-page browser workflows, Olostep provides a Web Data API for scraping, crawling, mapping, searching and parsing web data at scale.

With Olostep, developers can extract clean Markdown, HTML, PDFs and structured JSON, run batch jobs, use parsers for recurring data extraction, and connect live web data into AI agents, research tools and data pipelines.

Install the extension to start extracting repository and profile data in JSON or CSV, then explore Olostep when you are ready to scale web data workflows via the API beyond the browser. Take it further with the API:

Olostep — Scalable Web Scraping & Data Extraction API - https://www.olostep.com/
Generate Your Olostep API Keys - https://www.olostep.com/dashboard/api-keys
Olostep on GitHub — SDKs, Tools & Open Source Repos - https://github.com/olostep

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GitHub Scraper: Export repository and profile data as structured JSON or CSV from your browser.

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GitHub Scraper: Export data as JSON/CSV

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productivity/developer

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host_permissions

https://github.com/*

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permissions

activeTab, scripting

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description

Short Description

Extract GitHub data as JSON or CSV, then discover Olostep’s Web Data API for scalable scraping and AI workflows.

Full Description

Scrape GitHub by Olostep is a lightweight Chrome extension that turns GitHub repository pages and user profiles into structured JSON or CSV directly from your browser.

Use it to quickly extract GitHub data such as repository names, descriptions, stars, forks, watchers, topics, programming languages, licenses, README summaries, profile bios, follower counts, social links, and pinned repositories.

This extension is designed as a simple example of what structured web data extraction can look like. For developers and teams that need to scrape websites at scale, crawl pages, extract clean Markdown, HTML, PDFs, or structured JSON, and power AI agents with reliable web data, Olostep provides a full Web Data API.

Olostep helps you search, extract, and structure web data from any website through developer-friendly APIs for scrapes, crawls, answers, parsers, batches, and browser automations.

Key features:

Scrape GitHub repository pages into structured JSON
Export GitHub data as CSV
Parse GitHub user profiles and pinned repositories
Copy or download extracted data from the browser
Run local parsing from the active GitHub tab
Discover Olostep for scalable web scraping, crawling, and AI data workflows


Scrape GitHub is useful for open-source research, developer sourcing, repository analysis, technical research, competitive intelligence, and structured GitHub data collection.

When you are ready to move beyond a browser extension, visit olostep.com to build scalable web data pipelines with Olostep’s Web Data API for AI.