GitHub Trending & Repo Search – Stars, Forks & Topics API

Get GitHub's trending repositories for today, this week or this month, for all languages or the ones you pick, and search all of GitHub's repositories, as clean rows: stars, stars gained in the period, forks, language, description, topics, license, website and last push. No GitHub token and no login.

Built for developer-tool and AI trend tracking, open-source scouting, tech newsletters, competitor and ecosystem research, lead lists of companies building in a space, and AI agents that need to know what developers are starring right now.

What you get

• Trending: the Trending list in rank order, with the stars gained today, this week or this month. One list per language (python, rust, typescript …), and an optional spoken-language filter.
• Repository search: up to 1,000 repositories per search, sorted by stars, forks or last update. GitHub's qualifiers work: language:python stars:>1000 topic:llm, pushed:>2026-10-01, org:vercel.
• Search rows add: open issues, topics, license, website, owner type (user or organization), created date, last push, archived and fork flags.
• Monitoring: schedule Trending daily to see what is taking off, or a search with pushed:> or created:> to catch new projects in your niche.
• No personal data: the "Built by" people on Trending are left out, and email addresses in descriptions become [email removed].

Example output rows

A real Trending row (today, all languages):

{
  "source": "trending",
  "rank": 1,
  "repo": "meta/astryx",
  "url": "https://github.com/meta/astryx",
  "description": "An open source design system that's fully customizable and agent ready",
  "language": "TypeScript",
  "stars": 24542,
  "forks": 1917,
  "stars_in_period": 2842,
  "period": "daily",
  "trending_language": "all languages",
  "search": null
}

A real search row (web scraping, most stars):

{
  "source": "search",
  "rank": 1,
  "repo": "unclecode/crawl4ai",
  "url": "https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai",
  "language": "Python",
  "stars": 87225,
  "forks": 9090,
  "open_issues": 331,
  "topics": ["ai", "crawler", "llm", "web-scraping"],
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "owner_type": "User",
  "created": "2024-05-09T09:48:50Z",
  "last_push": "2026-11-10T12:30:15Z",
  "archived": false,
  "fork": false,
  "search": "web scraping"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• $0.40 per 1,000 repositories ($0.0004 per row).
• $0.002 per run start.

Examples: the pre-filled run (today's Trending) costs about $0.006. Trending for 10 languages (about 150 rows) costs about $0.06. A search for the top 1,000 Python repositories costs $0.402. Error rows are never charged.

Input

Field	What it does
includeTrending	Get the Trending list (on by default).
period	daily, weekly or monthly.
trendingLanguages	One Trending list per language. Empty = all languages.
spokenLanguage	Optional two-letter code (en, zh) for Trending.
searches	Repository searches, one per line, with GitHub's qualifiers.
sort	stars, forks, updated or best-match, for searches.
maxResults	Per search, up to 1,000 (default 100).

Good to know

• Trending lists are short: GitHub shows 10 to 25 repositories per list. Pick several languages to get more.
• Searches run one after another: GitHub allows 10 searches a minute without a token, so 10+ searches with many pages take a few minutes. The Actor waits instead of failing.
• Up to 1,000 results per search (GitHub's limit). Narrow with qualifiers such as stars:>100 or created:>2026-01-01 to reach more.
• Not affiliated with GitHub.

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