GitHub Trending Scraper — Extract Trending Repos, Developers & Topics

Scrape GitHub Trending page to discover the hottest repositories and developers. Track what's gaining stars across programming languages and time periods.

Why Use This Actor?

• No GitHub API token needed — Scrape trending data without authentication or rate limits
• Daily/Weekly/Monthly trends — Track what's gaining stars across different time periods
• Language filtering — Focus on specific programming languages
• Developer insights — See who's building the most popular projects

Features

• Trending Repositories — Extract repos from GitHub's trending page with stars, forks, and descriptions
• Trending Developers — Get profiles of developers with trending projects
• Language Filtering — Filter by Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, or any language
• Time Range Selection — Daily, weekly, or monthly trending data
• Repository Details — Stars gained today, total stars, forks, language, description
• Topic Discovery — Find trending topics and technologies
• Spoken Language Filter — Filter trending repos by spoken language

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
scrapeType	string	Yes	Choose whether to scrape trending repositories or developers.
timeRange	string	No	Trending period to scrape.
languages	array	No	Filter by programming languages. Leave empty for all languages. Use lowercase...
spokenLanguage	string	No	Filter by spoken language code (e.g., en, zh, es, de, ja). Leave empty for any.
includeReadme	boolean	No	Fetch README content for each repository. Slower but more data.

Output Example

{
  "type": "repository",
  "name": "ai-toolkit",
  "fullName": "example-org/ai-toolkit",
  "url": "https://github.com/example-org/ai-toolkit",
  "description": "A comprehensive toolkit for building AI-powered applications",
  "language": "Python",
  "totalStars": 12450,
  "starsToday": 342,
  "forks": 1893,
  "builtBy": [
    {"username": "dev1", "avatar": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/..."},
    {"username": "dev2", "avatar": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/..."}
  ],
  "trendingPeriod": "daily"
}

Use Cases

• Technology Scouting — Discover new tools and libraries before they go mainstream
• Competitive Analysis — Monitor trending projects in your technology space
• Developer Recruiting — Find active developers building popular open-source projects
• Investment Research — Track emerging technologies and developer interest trends
• Content Creation — Write about trending repos for dev blogs and newsletters
• Market Intelligence — Understand which programming languages and frameworks are gaining momentum

Cost Estimation

Scale	Estimated Cost	Time
Daily trending (25 repos)	~$0.01	~15 seconds
All languages daily	~$0.10	~2 minutes
Weekly trending + developers	~$0.05	~1 minute

Tips for Best Results

1. Run daily to build a historical dataset of trending projects
2. Filter by language to focus on your tech stack
3. Compare daily vs weekly trends to separate viral moments from sustained growth
4. Schedule runs with Apify for automated monitoring

Support

For issues, feature requests, or custom scraping needs, contact us at fatihdagustu20@gmail.com

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