GitHub Trending Scraper

Pulls today's, this week's, or this month's trending GitHub repositories with full structured data. Filter by language. Pair with the AI Sales Personalizer for personalized outreach to maintainers.

What you get back per repository

Field	Description
name	Repository name
owner	Owner (user or org)
description	One-line repo description
language	Primary programming language
stars	Total stars (lifetime)
stars_period	New stars in the selected window (today / this week / this month)
forks	Total forks
repo_url	Direct repo URL on GitHub
owner_url	Owner profile URL (good for outreach research)

Pricing

• Preview mode: $0 (5 results, no charges, use to verify)
• Standard: $0.01 per repository returned

A daily run with no language filter returns ~25 repos = $0.25. A weekly run returns ~25 repos = $0.25. Combined monthly cost for daily monitoring: ~$7.50.

Common use cases

Developer Relations teams at devtools companies use GitHub Trending to identify maintainers of popular OSS projects, then send personalized outreach offering free Pro tier access, integration partnerships, or feature requests.

Recruiters at AI/devtools companies use trending repos as a signal of active maintainers worth headhunting, particularly in trending languages like Rust, Go, and Python.

Investors and scouts monitor trending repos as a leading indicator of which OSS projects might commercialize next (Hashicorp, Docker, Vercel, Vercel's Next.js, and Anthropic's MCP all surfaced via GitHub trending years before they became mainstream).

Partnership teams at platforms like Vercel, Supabase, and Cloudflare watch trending repos to identify integration candidates.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free with preview_mode ticked.
2. Pick the time window: daily (today's hot repos), weekly, or monthly.
3. (Optional) Filter by language: javascript, typescript, python, rust, go, etc.
4. Hit Start.

The pipeline: combine with AI Sales Personalizer

This actor returns repo URLs. Run them through AI Sales Personalizer with a developer-tools seller pitch and get back 25 personalized cold openers per day, ready for outreach.

Cost: $0.25 (this scraper) + $3.75 (25 personalizations at $0.15) = $4/day for a fresh, personalized devrel pipeline. Or $120/month for a daily refresh.

Compare to a devrel SDR ($8,000+/month) or a Clay/Smartlead subscription ($149+/month).

Sister actors

• AI Sales Personalizer: turns repo URLs into personalized cold openers
• Show HN Lead Scraper: complementary launch-discovery feed
• ProductHunt Daily Launches Scraper: complementary launch-discovery feed

Pairing all three gives ~250 fresh B2B targets per week for under $8.

What this actor does NOT do

• It does not extract email addresses (use Clearbit or Apollo for that)
• It does not crawl the repo's source code or issues
• It does not access private repositories

Tips

1. Run daily for the freshest signal. GitHub trending changes daily based on star velocity.
2. Filter by language for sharper targeting. A devtools company selling to TypeScript developers wants language: typescript.
3. Combine daily + weekly + monthly windows for full coverage. Daily catches breakout repos. Monthly catches stable popular projects.

FAQ

Q: Is this allowed by GitHub? GitHub's trending page is public and indexable. We respect User-Agent norms and do not rate-spam the endpoint.

Q: Why not the GitHub API? The official GitHub API does not expose "trending" as an endpoint. The trending page is generated by GitHub's internal algorithm and only available via the website.

Q: How often does the data refresh? GitHub recomputes trending every few hours. Running this actor once daily is sufficient for most use cases.

Tags

github github-trending leads lead-generation devrel developer-relations recruiting tech-recruiting b2b oss-discovery

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Built by Emily Ward, Sydney. Pairs natively with the AI Sales Personalizer.

Integrations

This actor works out of the box with every Apify-supported integration:

• API: call via Apify API or any official SDK (Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET). Returns a clean dataset URL.
• Schedule: set a daily, weekly, or custom cron cadence in Apify Console. Combine with notification for fresh feeds.
• Webhooks: wire ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED to Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, or any HTTPS endpoint.
• MCP: this actor is discoverable through Apify's hosted MCP server at mcp.apify.com for Claude, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and other MCP clients.
• n8n / Make / Zapier: native HTTP-Request integration. Trigger the actor on schedule, pipe results to Google Sheets, Airtable, your CRM, or any database.

Try it free

Every Apify user gets $5/month in free platform credits (around 250 events at this actor's per-event price). Run preview mode first to confirm output shape before scaling.

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What's New

• 2026-06-03: Metadata, categories, and SEO refreshed. Latest version live on Apify Store.

Last Updated

2026-06-03