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GitHub Trending Scraper

Scrape GitHub Trending AI projects with this Apify actor. Collect repository name, owner, URL, description, programming language, stars, forks, today's stars, topics, contributors, and ranking. Filter by daily, weekly, or monthly trends and export clean datasets in JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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Developer

Biddut Hossain

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Monthly active users

7 days ago

Last modified

Features

Scrape GitHub Trending repositories
Filter by programming language
Choose trending period:
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
Export clean structured data
Compatible with Apify datasets
No GitHub API required

Input

Example input:

{
  "language": "",
  "since": "daily",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
language	string	Programming language (leave empty for all languages)
since	string	Trending period: daily, weekly, or monthly
maxItems	integer	Maximum repositories to scrape

Output

Each dataset item contains:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "repository": "owner/repository",
  "name": "repository",
  "owner": "owner",
  "url": "https://github.com/owner/repository",
  "description": "Repository description",
  "language": "Python",
  "stars": 52341,
  "forks": 6120,
  "starsToday": 421,
  "topics": [],
  "builtBy": [
    "developer1",
    "developer2"
  ],
  "period": "daily"
}

How It Works

Opens the GitHub Trending page.
Applies the selected language filter.
Applies the selected trending period.
Extracts repository information.
Saves each repository to the Apify dataset.

Requirements

Apify Python Actor
requests
beautifulsoup4
lxml

Installation

Dependencies:

apify
requests
beautifulsoup4
lxml

Example Use Cases

Discover trending AI repositories
Monitor open-source projects
Research popular GitHub repositories
Build developer dashboards
Track programming trends
Collect data for analytics
Create GitHub trend reports

Limitations

Data depends on the current GitHub Trending page.
GitHub may change its HTML structure at any time.
Topics may not be available because GitHub Trending does not display them for every repository.

Legal

This actor scrapes only publicly available information from GitHub Trending. Users are responsible for complying with GitHub's Terms of Service and applicable laws when using the collected data.

License

MIT License

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