GitHub and HuggingFace AI Research Monitor

Track public AI research signals from GitHub and HuggingFace in one scheduled Actor. It uses public unauthenticated endpoints and does not require a GitHub token, HuggingFace token, private repository access, or user credentials.

What it monitors

GitHub

• Public AI-related repositories from topic searches
• Public GitHub Trending pages for daily, weekly, or monthly momentum
• Stars, forks, issues, language, topics, license, and update timestamps

HuggingFace

• Trending public models
• Trending public datasets
• Trending daily papers
• Downloads, likes, tags, pipeline/library metadata, and publication timestamps

Repeat monitoring

The Actor stores a compact public snapshot in a named Apify key-value store. Each record includes:

• change_type: new, stars_changed, forks_changed, downloads_changed, likes_changed, metadata_changed, or unchanged
• change_detected: whether the signal changed since the previous run
• change_summary: machine-readable reasons
• previous_signal_hash: the previous public metadata fingerprint
• first_seen: the first date this source identity was observed; it is preserved across runs

Set onlyChanges to true for a scheduled feed. If the scan succeeds but nothing changed, the dataset contains a no_changes status record instead of failing silently.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
sources	string[]	github, huggingface	Public sources to query
max_items_per_source	integer	50	Maximum items per source category
time_period	string	daily	GitHub Trending window: daily, weekly, or monthly
github_topics	string[]	AI topics	GitHub topic filters
huggingface_categories	string[]	empty	Match public HF tags, pipeline names, or titles
trackChanges	boolean	true	Persist and compare snapshots
onlyChanges	boolean	false	Emit only new or changed records

Rate limits and limitations

GitHub Search is used without authentication and is subject to GitHub's public unauthenticated rate limits. The Actor catches individual source errors and still returns records from healthy sources. HuggingFace and GitHub data may change between runs; this is a monitoring feed, not a historical archive.