Pricing

Pay per event

Try for free

Go to Apify Store

GitHub Trending Scraper

Try for free

Scrapes GitHub Trending repositories by language, time period (daily/weekly/monthly), and spoken language.

Pricing

Pay per event

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

Max Miller

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

2 hours ago

Last modified

Features

Filter by programming language (Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, etc.)
Filter by time period: today, this week, or this month
Filter by spoken language (ISO 639-1 code)
Returns rank, stars, forks, description, contributors, and trending velocity
Up to 100 results per run

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`language`	string	`""`	Programming language filter (e.g. `"python"`, `"javascript"`)
`since`	string	`"daily"`	Time period: `"daily"`, `"weekly"`, or `"monthly"`
`spokenLanguage`	string	`""`	ISO 639-1 spoken language code (e.g. `"en"`, `"zh"`)
`maxItems`	integer	`25`	Max repositories to return (1–100)

Example Input

{
  "language": "python",
  "since": "weekly",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example Output

{
  "rank": 1,
  "owner": "openai",
  "name": "whisper",
  "fullName": "openai/whisper",
  "url": "https://github.com/openai/whisper",
  "description": "Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision",
  "language": "Python",
  "stars": 68432,
  "forks": 7891,
  "starsGained": 342,
  "starsGainedPeriod": "weekly",
  "contributors": [
    { "username": "openai", "avatarUrl": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/..." }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-14T20:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

Monitor trending repos in your tech stack
Track what's gaining momentum in a language ecosystem
Build developer-facing tools, newsletters, or dashboards
Data source for "what's hot in open source" feeds

Notes

Uses GitHub's public trending page (no API key required). Runs fast — typically under 10 seconds.

Github Trending Scraper

koralisx/github-trending-scraper

Scrape GitHub trending repositories by language and time period.

Koralis X

GitHub Trending Scraper

plantane/github-trending-scraper

Scrape trending repositories and developers from GitHub. Filter by language, time period, and spoken language. Get stars, forks, descriptions, and contributors.

Daniel

GitHub Trending Scraper

leftwinglautus/github-trending-scraper

Scrapes GitHub trending repositories by language and time period. Extracts repo name, author, description, language, stars, forks, and daily star growth.

Moeeze Hassan

GitHub Trending Repositories Tracker

tinymind/github-trending-tracker

GitHub trending repos scraper. Fetches github.com/trending with name, description, stars, forks, language, daily activity. Filter by language or period (daily/weekly/monthly). Clean JSON output. Already running: 7 runs by 2 users.

Bartosz

GitHub Trending Repos Scraper

fred.deichler/github-trending-scraper

Scrapes trending repositories from GitHub Trending page. Returns repo name, description, language, stars, forks, and daily/weekly/monthly star count.

Fred Deichler

GitHub Trending Repos Scraper

parseforge/github-trending-scraper

Scrapes trending repositories from GitHub Trending. Filter by programming language, time period, and spoken language. Returns repo name, description, stars, forks, and today's stars.

ParseForge

GitHub Trending Scraper

gio21/github-trending-scraper

Scrape github.com/trending - the official trending list. Repos or developers. Filter by language, spoken language, time range (daily/weekly/monthly). Returns name, owner, description, stars, today's stars, language. For dev intel and content.

Gio

GitHub Trending Scraper

uxinfra/github-trending-scraper

Scrapes trending repositories from GitHub with real-time data

UXINFRA

GitHub Trending Repositories Scraper

fanciful_geode/github-trending-scraper

Scrape trending repositories from GitHub Trending. Extract repo name, owner, description, stars, forks, language, and current period star gains. Filter by language and time period.

Ernesto de Armas

GitHub Trending Scraper

johnlenflure/github-trending-scraper

Scrape GitHub Trending repositories by language and time range. Get repo names, stars, forks, descriptions, and contributor data for daily/weekly/monthly trends.