GitHub Trending Scraper

Scrape GitHub's Trending page for trending repositories and developers. Track what's hot in open source, filter by language and time range.

Features

• Scrape trending repositories and developers
• Filter by programming language (Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, etc.)
• Filter by time range (daily, weekly, monthly)
• Extract stars, forks, descriptions, languages
• Track star growth (stars gained today/this week/this month)
• Get developer profiles and their popular repos

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
type	string	"repositories"	What to scrape: repositories or developers
language	string	""	Filter by language (e.g., "python", "javascript")
since	string	"daily"	Time range: daily, weekly, monthly
maxResults	number	25	Max results to return

Output (Repositories)

{
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "awesome-project",
  "fullName": "developer/awesome-project",
  "description": "An awesome open source project",
  "language": "Python",
  "stars": 15234,
  "forks": 1203,
  "starsToday": 542,
  "url": "https://github.com/developer/awesome-project",
  "builtBy": [{"username": "dev1", "avatar": "..."}]
}

Output (Developers)

{
  "rank": 1,
  "username": "developer123",
  "name": "John Developer",
  "avatar": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/...",
  "popularRepo": "awesome-project",
  "repoDescription": "An awesome open source project",
  "url": "https://github.com/developer123"
}

Use Cases

• Tech Research: Discover emerging tools and frameworks
• Competitive Intelligence: Monitor trending projects in your space
• Hiring: Find active open source contributors
• Investment Research: Spot fast-growing tech trends early
• Content Creation: Write about trending repositories

Pricing

Pay per result — you only pay for what you scrape. See the Pricing tab for details.

Example

Get trending Python repos this week:

{
  "type": "repositories",
  "language": "python",
  "since": "weekly"
}