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🔥 GitHub Trending Scraper

Pull GitHub's trending repositories and developers — by programming language, time period, and spoken language — directly from GitHub's official trending page. Daily, weekly, or monthly.

🚀 Built for tech analysts, AI researchers, recruiters, and content creators tracking what's hot in the developer world.

✨ What you can do

• 📦 Trending repos — top GitHub repositories with stars, forks, language, descriptions
• 👨‍💻 Trending developers — most followed/discussed devs of the period
• 🌐 Filter by programming language — Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, etc.
• 🕒 Time periods — today, this week, this month
• 🗣️ Spoken language filter — find Chinese, Japanese, Russian-language repos
• 📤 JSON / CSV / Excel export

🚀 Quick start

1. Click Try for free
2. Pick mode: repositories, developers, or both
3. Pick since: daily / weekly / monthly
4. Optional: filter by programming language(s)
5. Click Start

📥 Input examples

Top trending Python repos this week

{
"mode":"repositories",
"languages":["python"],
"since":"weekly"
}

Both repos and devs across multiple languages

{
"mode":"both",
"languages":["typescript","rust","go"],
"since":"daily"
}

All trending repos worldwide today

{
"mode":"repositories",
"languages":[],
"since":"daily",
"maxItemsPerList":25
}

📤 Output

Repository

{
"type":"repository",
"rank":1,
"name":"awesome-tool",
"owner":"username",
"fullName":"username/awesome-tool",
"description":"Tool that does something great",
"language":"Python",
"stars":12500,
"forks":850,
"starsToday":245,
"since":"daily",
"url":"https://github.com/username/awesome-tool",
"builtBy":[{"username":"user1","avatar":"https://..."}],
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-06T08:00:00.000Z"
}

Developer

{
"type":"developer",
"rank":1,
"username":"torvalds",
"fullName":"Linus Torvalds",
"avatar":"https://...",
"profileUrl":"https://github.com/torvalds",
"popularRepo":{
"name":"linux",
"description":"Linux kernel source tree",
"url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux"
},
"since":"weekly",
"language":null,
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-06T08:00:00.000Z"
}

🎯 Use cases

⚙️ Tech notes

• Scrapes the official https://github.com/trending and /trending/developers pages
• No login required, no API key, no rate-limit headaches
• Output is GitHub's own ranking (most-starred in the period for that language)
• Supports all GitHub-supported language slugs

❓ FAQ

Why scrape the page instead of using GitHub API? GitHub's REST API doesn't expose the curated /trending ranking. The trending pages are public and stable.

Can I run on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules for daily runs at 9 AM your time → never miss a trend.

How fast? ~3-5 seconds per language per list.

Limit on items? GitHub's trending page shows ~25 items max. There's no pagination.