📈 GitHub Trending Scraper — Repos & Developers

Scrape GitHub Trending repositories and developers. Extract repo names, descriptions, stars, forks, language, and daily/weekly/monthly trends. Discover rising open-source projects and active contributors. Essential for tech scouting, developer research, and staying on top of the OSS ecosystem.

No API key required — scrapes the public GitHub Trending page directly.

🚀 What does this Actor do?

GitHub Trending shows the fastest-growing open-source projects, but it doesn't have an API. This Actor scrapes the trending page and returns structured data for:

• Trending repositories — Get repos gaining the most stars with descriptions, star counts, fork counts, primary language, and star gain for the period
• Trending developers — See which developers are making waves with their trending repos, usernames, and profile links

Filter by programming language (Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, TypeScript, etc.) and time range (daily, weekly, monthly) to focus on exactly what matters to you.

💡 Use Cases

• Tech scouting — Monitor trending repos in your tech stack daily to discover new tools, libraries, and frameworks before they go mainstream
• Content creation — Build weekly "hot repos" roundups for tech blogs, newsletters, or social media by scraping trending data automatically
• Developer intelligence — Track trending developers by language to find top contributors, potential hires, or interesting open-source maintainers

📊 Output Example

{
  "name": "vercel/ai",
  "url": "https://github.com/vercel/ai",
  "description": "Build AI-powered applications with React, Svelte, Vue, and Solid",
  "language": "TypeScript",
  "stars": 28453,
  "forks": 3152,
  "starsToday": 156,
  "builtBy": [
    { "username": "timneutkens", "url": "https://github.com/timneutkens" }
  ],
  "period": "daily"
}

⚙️ Input Tips

Parameter	Tip
mode	repositories for project data, developers for contributor profiles
language	Leave empty for "all languages" or specify one: python, javascript, rust, go, typescript, java, etc.
since	daily for today's hot repos (fast movers), weekly for sustained growth, monthly for established trending
spokenLanguage	Filter by human language of repo documentation — use ISO codes like en, zh, ja (mostly useful for written content)

🔑 Keywords

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