GitHub Explore Scraper - Trending Repos, Stars & Metadata

Scrape GitHub Explore trending repos: name, owner, stars, language, description. Clean JSON, no API key needed.

What you get

Every row contains:

• id
• sourceUrl
• title
• owner
• primaryLanguage
• starCount
• description
• scrapedAt

{
  "id": "modular/modular",
  "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/modular/modular",
  "title": "modular / modular",
  "owner": "modular",
  "primaryLanguage": "Mojo",
  "starCount": "27.5k",
  "description": "The Modular Platform (includes MAX & Mojo)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array	yes	Trending or Explore pages to scrape. Each language and time period is a separate page with its own repositories — add more (github.com/trending/
maxItems	integer	no	Stops the run once this many results have been delivered. You are only charged for results actually returned. Default: 500.
useBrowser	boolean	no	Leave off unless results come back empty. Off is several times faster and cheaper; turn it on only if the site renders its listings with JavaScript. Default: false.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	Datacenter proxies are enough for most targets. Switch to residential only if you see blocks. Default: {"useApifyProxy":true}.

Use cases

• Developer newsletters — a weekly list of what is actually trending, by language.
• Investor and hiring scouting — early traction signals before a project is widely known.
• Training-corpus curation — filter candidate repositories by language and momentum.

Pricing

$3.00 per 1,000 results. You are charged once per record written to the dataset, and never for a result you do not receive — validation failures and duplicates are dropped before billing.

The first 10 results of every run are free, so you can check that the output has the fields you need before paying for any of it.

Notes

• GitHub's REST and GraphQL APIs have no trending endpoint — trending is computed by GitHub and published only as a web page.
• Each language and time period is a separate page with its own repositories. The default input covers Explore plus nine trending views; add more github.com/trending/<language>?since=daily|weekly|monthly URLs for wider coverage.
• GitHub caps each of these pages at roughly 20 repositories and renders no pagination, so breadth comes from the number of URLs, not from paging.

Support

Open an issue on this Actor if a field stops populating or a run returns nothing. Selector drift is a bug, not a fact of life — these parsers are re-tested weekly against the live site.