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Github Trending Repos

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Github Trending Repos

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GitHub Trending Repositories Scraper

A reliable, high-performance, and lightweight web scraper designed to extract trending repositories, their statistics, creators, programming languages, and descriptions from GitHub's live database. Perfect for developers, researchers, and autonomous AI agents looking to monitor what is current and hot on GitHub.

Features

  • Trending Discovery: Pulls the newest, highest-performing, or most starred repositories matching recent creation ranges.
  • Detailed Metadata: Captures repo names, full descriptions, stars, forks, main programming language, direct link, and owner name.
  • Resilient & Fast: Backed by stable, optimized endpoints for maximum speed and 100% uptime without anti-bot blockage.
  • Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Charged strictly based on actual scraped repos, ensuring transparent and cost-effective billing.

Input Parameters

The Actor accepts the following input in JSON format:

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
max_itemsIntegerNo10The maximum number of trending repositories to scrape in a single run.

Example Input

{
"max_items": 5
}

Output Schema

The scraped data is pushed directly to your default Apify dataset in JSON format with the following fields:

FieldTypeDescription
nameStringThe name of the repository.
full_nameStringThe owner and repo name (e.g. owner/repo).
descriptionStringDescription of the repository.
starsIntegerThe number of stars (stargazers count) the repo has.
forksIntegerThe number of forks the repo has.
urlStringDirect URL to the GitHub repository.
ownerStringThe login username/organization name of the repository owner.
languageStringThe primary programming language used.
created_atStringThe ISO timestamp of repository creation.

Example Output

{
"name": "hermes-agent",
"full_name": "nousresearch/hermes-agent",
"description": "An autonomous agent platform powered by Nous Research.",
"stars": 12450,
"forks": 840,
"url": "https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent",
"owner": "nousresearch",
"language": "Python",
"created_at": "2026-06-01T12:00:00Z"
}

Pricing Configuration

This Actor utilizes Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) monetization model.

  • Primary Event: repo-scraped
  • Cost: $0.005 per successfully scraped repository.
  • You only pay for what is successfully extracted and delivered to your dataset!