🔥 GitHub Trending Scraper

Pull GitHub's trending repositories and developers — by programming language, time period, and spoken language — directly from GitHub's official trending page. Daily, weekly, or monthly.

🚀 Built for tech analysts, AI researchers, recruiters, and content creators tracking what's hot in the developer world.

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✨ What you can do

• 📦 Trending repos — top GitHub repositories with stars, forks, language, descriptions
• 👨‍💻 Trending developers — most followed/discussed devs of the period
• 🌐 Filter by programming language — Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, etc.
• 🕒 Time periods — today, this week, this month
• 🗣️ Spoken language filter — find Chinese, Japanese, Russian-language repos
• 📤 JSON / CSV / Excel export

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🚀 Quick start

1. Click Try for free
2. Pick mode: repositories, developers, or both
3. Pick since: daily / weekly / monthly
4. Optional: filter by programming language(s)
5. Click Start

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📥 Input examples

Top trending Python repos this week

{
    "mode": "repositories",
    "languages": ["python"],
    "since": "weekly"
}

Both repos and devs across multiple languages

{
    "mode": "both",
    "languages": ["typescript", "rust", "go"],
    "since": "daily"
}

All trending repos worldwide today

{
    "mode": "repositories",
    "languages": [],
    "since": "daily",
    "maxItemsPerList": 25
}

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📤 Output

Repository

{
    "type": "repository",
    "rank": 1,
    "name": "awesome-tool",
    "owner": "username",
    "fullName": "username/awesome-tool",
    "description": "Tool that does something great",
    "language": "Python",
    "stars": 12500,
    "forks": 850,
    "starsToday": 245,
    "since": "daily",
    "url": "https://github.com/username/awesome-tool",
    "builtBy": [{ "username": "user1", "avatar": "https://..." }],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-06T08:00:00.000Z"
}

Developer

{
    "type": "developer",
    "rank": 1,
    "username": "torvalds",
    "fullName": "Linus Torvalds",
    "avatar": "https://...",
    "profileUrl": "https://github.com/torvalds",
    "popularRepo": {
        "name": "linux",
        "description": "Linux kernel source tree",
        "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux"
    },
    "since": "weekly",
    "language": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-06T08:00:00.000Z"
}

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🎯 Use cases

Who	Why
🤖 AI researchers	Discover hot ML/AI repos before they're widely known
📰 Tech newsletter writers	Daily content mining for "trending this week" sections
🎯 Recruiters	Find rising stars in specific languages/communities
📊 VCs & scouts	Early signal for investable open-source projects
🏢 DevRel teams	Track ecosystem activity around your tech stack
📈 Indie hackers	Idea mining + competitor watching

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⚙️ Tech notes

• Scrapes the official https://github.com/trending and /trending/developers pages
• No login required, no API key, no rate-limit headaches
• Output is GitHub's own ranking (most-starred in the period for that language)
• Supports all GitHub-supported language slugs

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❓ FAQ

Why scrape the page instead of using GitHub API? GitHub's REST API doesn't expose the curated /trending ranking. The trending pages are public and stable.

Can I run on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules for daily runs at 9 AM your time → never miss a trend.

How fast? ~3-5 seconds per language per list.

Limit on items? GitHub's trending page shows ~25 items max. There's no pagination.