GitHub API

GitHub Repository readme API

Get a GitHub repository's README by repository URL, as the Markdown text the maintainers wrote, with its file name, path and size. Use it to learn what a project does, which models and tools it uses, and how to reach its authors.

POST/v1/run/github.repository_readme
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 39 calls
Requests
39
30d
Response
1.4s
median · 30d

Pricing and providers

GitHub Repository readme API pricing: one API, 3 interchangeable providers

The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.

You pay
$12.00
$1.20/1k req, only for what you use. No monthly plan.
Your first 83 requests are free with the $0.10 starting balance.

Try it

Get GitHub repository readme in one request

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Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.

Reference

One request, one response shape.

Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.

Last verified 2026-10-17 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

Request body

JSON, posted to this endpoint.

No fields published for this endpoint.

You send. A small JSON body. The values shown are examples to replace with your own.

Response

JSON, one example value per field.

No fields published for this endpoint.

You get back. Named, typed fields in the same shape whichever source answers.

FAQ

About the GitHub Repository readme API

The AnyAPI GitHub Repository readme API returns GitHub repository readme data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/github.repository_readme. Get a GitHub repository's README by repository URL, as the Markdown text the maintainers wrote, with its file name, path and size. Use it to learn what a project does, which models and tools it uses, and how to reach its authors. AnyAPI routes each request across 3 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of GitHub repository readme calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 1.4 seconds across 39 measured calls.

It costs from $1.20 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet and each call draws it down. Some failed wallet-funded requests incur processing charges that we pass through at cost, with no markup; the error response shows the amount charged.

Get a GitHub repository's README by repository URL, as the Markdown text the maintainers wrote, with its file name, path and size. Use it to learn what a project does, which models and tools it uses, and how to reach its authors. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of GitHub repository readme calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 1.4 seconds across 39 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

Yes. A new AnyAPI account starts with $0.10 of free balance and no card required, which covers 83 GitHub Repository readme calls at $0.0012 each.

AnyAPI asks the next of its 3 sources in the same request, cheapest first, so one source going down does not fail your call.

Send a POST request to https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/github.repository_readme with your AnyAPI key in an "Authorization: Bearer" header and the input as a JSON body. The same key and the same wallet work on every AnyAPI endpoint.

No. You add US dollars to one prepaid AnyAPI balance and each request draws it down. There is no monthly plan and no minimum, and the same balance pays for every AnyAPI endpoint.

Yes. Install @getanyapi/sdk from npm for TypeScript or getanyapi from pip for Python. Both call every AnyAPI endpoint with the same key, and any HTTP client works too.

Yes. An agent can connect to the AnyAPI MCP server at https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp, or create its own free-trial key with one unauthenticated POST to https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup and call this endpoint over HTTP.
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