How to Use Opire to Find Unclaimed GitHub Bounties (With Real Data From 30 Live Bounties)

Most developers have never heard of Opire. Fewer still know it has a fully public API that returns every active bounty in real-time — no authentication needed. I spent a day building an automated scanner using that API. Here's what I found in 30 live bounties, how the claim mechanism works, and which ones are still up for grabs. What Is Opire? Opire is a platform that lets anyone — maintainers, sponsors, even random users — add cash bounties to GitHub issues. Unlike Algora or IssueHunt, Opire uses a comment-based flow directly on GitHub . You don't need a separate dashboard to participate. The full flow: A sponsor drops @opire-dev create $50 as a comment on any GitHub issue Opire's bot registers the reward Developers post /try to declare intent After a merged PR: post /claim #<issue-number> in the PR body Payment goes out via Stripe What makes it special: it's decentralized . Anyone can fund any issue. The bounty lives on GitHub, not behind a walled garden. The Secret Weapon: Opire's P