How to Scrape GitHub Issues and Pull Requests for Project Analysis

GitHub Issues and PRs contain valuable project health data. GitHub API (Free, No Key for Basic) async function getIssues ( owner , repo ) { const url = `https://api.github.com/repos/ ${ owner } / ${ repo } /issues?state=all&per_page=100` ; const res = await fetch ( url ); return ( await res . json ()). map ( issue => ({ title : issue . title , state : issue . state , created : issue . created_at , closed : issue . closed_at , comments : issue . comments , labels : issue . labels . map ( l => l . name ), author : issue . user . login })); } Metrics You Can Calculate Issue resolution time — how fast bugs get fixed PR merge time — development velocity Label distribution — bug vs feature vs enhancement Contributor count — project health Activity trend — growing or declining Use Cases Open source project evaluation Technology risk assessment Competitor engineering velocity Community health analysis Developer hiring signals Resources GitHub API Guide 77 Free Scrapers Complete Index Need GitH