Github Trending Repositories / Developers

GitHub Trending Repositories & Developers Scraper

Track what’s trending on GitHub in real time.

This actor extracts GitHub Trending repositories or developers by day, week, or month with advanced filtering by language, country, and sponsor status.

Perfect for discovering fast-growing projects, identifying top engineers, and monitoring new open-source trends.

🔍 What This Scraper Does

✅ Trending Repositories

Repository name

Description

Languages

Stars and forks

Builders / contributors

Stars gained over date range

✅ Trending Developers

Username

Profile URL

Most popular repository

Project description

Inputs

• Trending category: Repositories / Developers

• Date range: Daily / Weekly / Monthly

• Code language: the name of the code language used

• Spoken language: for exemple English

• Is Sponsorable: True or False

Outputs

returns a list of objects per trending repositories OR developers

REPOSITORIES:

{
  "name": "psf / black",
  "description": "The uncompromising Python code formatter",
  "description_urls": [],
  "languages": [
    "Python"
  ],
  "forks": "2,466",
  "stars": "39,053",
  "builders": [
    "https://github.com/ambv",
    "https://github.com/JelleZijlstra",
    "https://github.com/ichard26",
    "https://github.com/hugovk",
    "https://github.com/apps/dependabot"
  ],
  "date_range_stars": "108"
}

DEVELOPERS:

{
  "name": "hoshi-hiyouga",
  "url": "https://github.com/hiyouga",
  "popular_repo": "https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory",
  "popular_repo_description": "Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs (ACL 2024)"
}

🧠 Use Cases

This actor is widely used for:

Developer talent discovery

Growth monitoring

Open-source intelligence

Investment signals

AI repository discovery

Product research

Technology adoption tracking

Competitive analysis

✅ Benefits

Supports repositories & developer pages

Works daily / weekly / monthly

Filtering by coding language

Detects sponsor-enabled developers

Structured JSON output

Fully scalable

No GitHub API limits

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