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Ghost Hunter AI

An Apify Actor that scrapes developer profiles from GitHub, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn, then uses Grok AI to analyze and compare candidates.

Features

• Multi-candidate support - Analyze and compare multiple developers at once
• GitHub scraping - Fetches up to 20 repositories with README contents via GitHub API
• Twitter/X scraping - Collects recent tweets using Apify's Twitter scraper
• LinkedIn scraping - Extracts comprehensive profile data including skills, experience, education
• Grok AI analysis - Send all scraped data to Grok AI with your custom prompt

Input

Candidates Format

[
{
"name":"John Smith",
"githubUserUrl":"https://github.com/johnsmith",
"twitterHandle":"@johnsmith",
"linkedinUrl":"https://linkedin.com/in/johnsmith"
},
{
"name":"Jane Doe",
"githubUserUrl":"https://github.com/janedoe",
"twitterHandle":"janedoe",
"linkedinUrl":""
}
]

All profile fields are optional per candidate - leave empty ("") if not available.

Example Input

{
"candidates":[
{
"name":"Candidate 1",
"githubUserUrl":"https://github.com/user1",
"twitterHandle":"@user1",
"linkedinUrl":"https://linkedin.com/in/user1"
},
{
"name":"Candidate 2",
"githubUserUrl":"https://github.com/user2",
"twitterHandle":"",
"linkedinUrl":"https://linkedin.com/in/user2"
}
],
"grokApiKey":"your-grok-api-key",
"grokPrompt":"Compare these developer candidates for a senior full-stack position. Rank them and explain your reasoning."
}

Output

The actor outputs:

{
"candidatesData":[
{
"name":"Candidate 1",
"github":{
"username":"user1",
"profileUrl":"https://github.com/user1",
"repositories":[...]
},
"twitter":{
"handle":"user1",
"recentTweets":[...]
},
"linkedin":{
"fullName":"...",
"headline":"...",
"skills":[...],
"experiences":[...],
 ...
}
}
],
"grokAnalysis":"Grok's comparison and analysis...",
"totalCandidates":2,
"scrapedAt":"2026-01-17T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Example Prompts

• "Compare these candidates for a senior developer role. Who would be the best fit?"
• "Analyze these developers' open source contributions and rank them by impact"
• "Which candidate has the strongest AI/ML background based on their projects?"
• "Summarize each candidate's expertise in 2-3 sentences"

Data Collected

GitHub

• Repository names, descriptions, languages
• Star counts
• README contents (full text)

Twitter/X

• Recent tweets (up to 10)
• Likes and retweet counts
• Tweet timestamps

LinkedIn

• Full name, headline, about section
• Skills and endorsements
• Work experience with durations
• Education history
• Certifications and awards
• Projects
• Connection/follower counts

Requirements

• Grok API Key - Get one from x.ai
• Apify Account - For running Twitter and LinkedIn scrapers

Cost

The actor uses these Apify scrapers which consume platform credits:

• apidojo/twitter-scraper-lite - For Twitter data
• dev_fusion/Linkedin-Profile-Scraper - For LinkedIn data

GitHub data is fetched directly via the GitHub API (free).

License

MIT