GitHub Trending Scraper 🔥

Scrape the hottest repositories and developers on GitHub Trending — by language and time range. No API key. No token. No rate-limit headaches.

Track what the developer world is starring right now. This actor turns the GitHub Trending page into clean, structured JSON: repositories with total stars, forks, language and stars gained in the period, plus trending developers with their most popular repo. Filter by any programming language and by daily / weekly / monthly windows.

Fast, datacenter-proxy friendly (works without proxies too), and priced to undercut everyone else.

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💡 Why use this actor?

• No API key — parses public HTML, so there's nothing to configure and no GitHub token to burn.
• Trend velocity — get stars_period (stars gained today/this week/this month), the single most important signal that the GitHub API does not expose.
• Language filters — track python, rust, typescript, go, or all languages at once.
• Two modes — trending repositories and trending developers.
• Cheap — see pricing below. Built to be the lowest-cost option on the Store.

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🎯 Use cases

Use case	How this helps
Developer trend tracking	Watch which repos and tools are exploding in popularity day by day.
VC / OSS sourcing	Discover fast-growing open-source projects and their creators before they hit the mainstream.
Tech radar	Feed a weekly digest of trending repos-by-language into your internal newsletter or dashboard.
Competitor intel	Monitor when competitors' repos or maintainers start trending.
Content & marketing	Auto-generate "Top trending repos this week" roundups.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	repositories (default) or developers.
languages	array	Languages to fetch. Use "" for all languages. Prefill: ["", "python", "javascript"].
since	select	Time range: daily (default), weekly, or monthly.
maxItems	integer	Max items in total (default 100, max 1000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "repositories",
  "languages": ["", "python", "rust"],
  "since": "daily",
  "maxItems": 100
}

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📤 Output

Repository item

{
  "type": "repository",
  "full_name": "tirth8205/code-review-graph",
  "owner": "tirth8205",
  "name": "code-review-graph",
  "url": "https://github.com/tirth8205/code-review-graph",
  "description": "Local-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI.",
  "language": "Python",
  "stars": 20947,
  "forks": 2161,
  "stars_period": 551,
  "since": "daily",
  "rank": 1,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T10:00:00+00:00"
}

Developer item

{
  "type": "developer",
  "username": "assafelovic",
  "name": "Assaf Elovic",
  "url": "https://github.com/assafelovic",
  "popular_repo": "gpt-researcher",
  "popular_repo_desc": "An autonomous agent that conducts deep research.",
  "since": "daily",
  "rank": 1,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T10:00:00+00:00"
}

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💰 Pricing

This actor is intentionally cheap — roughly $0.50 per 1,000 items on top of the platform usage it consumes. GitHub Trending is lightweight to scrape (one HTML request per language), so runs are fast and inexpensive. Built to undercut every other GitHub-trending option on the Store.

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⚔️ Comparison

	This actor	GitHub REST/GraphQL API	Generic HTML scrapers
API key required	❌ No	✅ Yes (token)	❌ No
stars_period (trend velocity)	✅ Yes	❌ No	⚠️ Rarely
Developer trending mode	✅ Yes	❌ No	⚠️ Rarely
Language + time-range filters	✅ Yes	⚠️ Complex queries	⚠️ Varies
Cost	💚 Cheap	Rate-limited	Varies

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🏷️ Keywords

github trending · github scraper · trending repositories · trending developers · open source intelligence · dev intel · vc sourcing · tech radar · star growth · no api key

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Not affiliated with GitHub. Scrapes only publicly available data from the GitHub Trending page. Use responsibly and in accordance with GitHub's Terms of Service.