livebounty

Find GitHub bounties you can actually collect.

Hunting open-source bounties wastes a shocking amount of time on dead ends. You find a promising 💎 Bounty issue, spend an hour on a fix, go to open the PR — and the repo is archived (read-only, no PRs ever). Or the bounty was awarded eight months ago and the issue just never got closed. Or the "repo" is a farm posting fake $8,000 bounties for add CORS config. Or it's a test repo with a title like gggg. Or 40 people already /attempted it and a PR has claimed the money.

livebounty pulls open bounty issues and keeps only the collectable ones:

• ❌ skips archived / deleted / disabled repos (you can never PR them)
• ❌ skips already-awarded bounties (the "🎉 has been awarded" zombie)
• ❌ skips farm and spam/test repos (gibberish names & titles)
• ❌ skips swarmed issues (a PR already claimed it, or 6+ hunters are on it)
• ✅ shows the rest, cheapest-to-win first, with the dollar amount

No API key. Zero dependencies.

# runs straight from GitHub, no install, no API key:
npx github:Patonchain/livebounty --min 25

# or clone and run:
git clone https://github.com/Patonchain/livebounty && node livebounty/bin/livebounty.mjs

  livebounty — 3 LIVE, collectable bounties (from 41 non-spam open):

  $75      1 attempts · c2  someorg/somerepo #128
     Fix pagination cursor off-by-one in the search API
     https://github.com/someorg/somerepo/issues/128
  ...

Why this exists

I built this after losing hours to a "$50, open" bounty whose repo turned out to be archived — a perfect fix that could never be submitted. The bounty boards are mostly noise; this is the filter I wish I'd had.

Options

flag	meaning
--label "💎 Bounty"	which bounty label to search (Algora's default; try bounty)
--min 25	only show bounties worth at least $25
--json	machine-readable output

Tip jar

livebounty is free and MIT-licensed. If it saved you an hour, tips (USDC/ETH on Base) are hugely appreciated and fund more open tools:

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