hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: GitHub is starting to lockdown some of the previously public data
This data was available via API endpoints, not something that needed scraping.
🔥 Score 42.3
ScrapeSafe: GitHub Data API
Developers lose access to key GitHub metrics as the platform restricts publicly scraped data; ScrapeSafe delivers a reliable, fully documented API that aggregates and serves the same information, eliminating brittle web‑scraping and ensuring compliance.
Quantitative Score Breakdown
complaint frequency
1.5
growth rate
9
competition density
10.5
monetization potential
9
technical feasibility
7.5
search interest
4.8