# Changelog of GitHub Trending Scraper (`automation-lab/github-trending-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/github-trending-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/github-trending-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-12

*Features*

- Added an optional encrypted GitHub token input for higher API limits and more reliable metadata and README enrichment on recurring runs. Anonymous runs and existing output remain unchanged.

*Reliability*

- GitHub API error messages are no longer returned as README content when a rate limit is reached.

### 2026-06-21

*Features*

- Added public task examples to help you start common scraping workflows faster.

### 2026-03-03

*Features*

- Initial release. Scrape trending repositories from GitHub — stars, forks, language, description, and contributors.