GitHub Trending Repos Scraper
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GitHub Trending Repos Scraper
Scrape trending repositories from GitHub Trending. Filter by language and date range (daily/weekly/monthly). Get repo names, descriptions, stars, forks, languages, and contributor info. Perfect for tech trend monitoring, market research, and AI training data.
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Hacker News Scraper — Apify Actor
Extract stories from Hacker News with filtering by points and keywords.
Features
- Fetch top, new, or best stories
- Filter by minimum points score
- Filter by keywords in story titles (comma-separated)
- Structured output: title, URL, points, author, comment count, timestamp
- Uses official Firebase API — no scraping, no blocks
Input
| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
storyType | enum | top | Story feed: top / new / best |
limit | int | 30 | Max stories to fetch (≤100) |
minPoints | int | 0 | Minimum upvotes filter |
keywords | string | — | Comma-separated keywords (e.g. AI,Python,YC) |
Output (one row per story)
{"id": 43254321,"title": "Show HN: Example Project","url": "https://example.com","author": "username","points": 342,"comment_count": 87,"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254321","type": "story","time": 1748217600}
Use Cases
- 📰 Tech trend monitoring — what's trending on HN right now
- 🏢 Startup intelligence — track Show HN launches
- 🤖 AI training data — collect curated tech news content
- 📊 Competitive analysis — monitor developer sentiment
Example
# CLI via Apify APIcurl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/wsgcjj~hacker-news-scraper/runs" \-H "Content-Type: application/json" \-d '{"storyType":"top","limit":10,"minPoints":100,"keywords":"AI,LLM"}'
Limits
- 100 stories max per run (Firebase API limit)
- Free API — no API key or proxy needed