GitHub Trending Repositories Scraper

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Scrape trending repositories from GitHub Trending. Extract repository name, owner, description, programming language, star counts, fork counts, contributors, and topics.

Features

• Daily / Weekly / Monthly trending — configurable time range
• Language filtering — filter by any programming language (python, javascript, rust, etc.)
• Spoken language filtering — filter by documentation/spoken language
• Rich data — extracts 15+ fields per repository including language color, active contributors, period star gains
• Topics — captures repository topics/tags
• Proxy support — optional (GitHub is generally accessible without proxy)

Input Parameters

Example INPUT.json

{
"since":"daily",
"language":"python",
"maxItems":25
}

Output Fields

Example Output

{
"rank":1,
"name":"awesome-llm",
"owner":"someuser",
"fullName":"someuser/awesome-llm",
"url":"https://github.com/someuser/awesome-llm",
"description":"A curated list of LLM resources",
"language":"Python",
"languageColor":"#3572A5",
"stars":45200,
"forks":3100,
"starsToday":1200,
"topics":["llm","machine-learning","ai"],
"contributors":[{"avatarUrl":"https://avatars.github.com/...","login":"user1"}],
"since":"daily",
"languageFilter":"python",
"scrapedAt":"2025-05-15T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Notes

• GitHub Trending shows approximately 25 repositories per page
• No authentication required
• Generally accessible without proxy
• Data refreshes daily; run regularly to track trending over time