# GitHub Trending Scraper | Repositories & Developers by Language (`resounding_diplomacy/github-trending-scraper`) Actor

Scrape GitHub trending repositories and developers by programming language and time period. Extract repo names, stars, forks, descriptions, topics, and contributor profiles. Track open source trends daily, weekly, or monthly. Export as JSON or CSV, run via API, or schedule automated runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/resounding\_diplomacy/github-trending-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [alars num](https://apify.com/resounding_diplomacy) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## GitHub Trending Scraper

Scrape GitHub's Trending page to discover the fastest-growing repositories and developers. Filter by programming language, time range, and spoken language, then export structured data with stars, forks, descriptions, contributor avatars, and topic tags. No API key or authentication required.

This actor parses the GitHub Trending HTML directly, extracts rich metadata for each item, and applies optional post-scrape sorting so you can rank results by total stars or stars gained in the period. Export results to JSON, CSV, or via API.

### Features

- Two modes: **repositories** and **developers**
- Filter by programming language (e.g. `python`, `rust`, `go`)
- Time range support: `daily`, `weekly`, or `monthly` trending
- Spoken language code filter for localized trending
- Repository data: author, name, description, language, stars, forks, stars gained in period, top contributors, and topic tags
- Developer data: username, full name, profile URL, avatar, company ("Works for"), and their popular repo
- Post-scrape sorting by total stars or stars gained in the selected period
- Automatic rank assignment after sorting

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `mode` | String | `repositories` | Scrape type: `repositories` or `developers` |
| `language` | String | `""` | Programming language filter (e.g. `python`) |
| `since` | String | `daily` | Time range: `daily`, `weekly`, or `monthly` |
| `spokenLanguageCode` | String | `""` | Spoken language code (e.g. `en`) for localized trending |
| `sortBy` | String | `""` | Post-scrape sort: `stars` (total stars) or `stars-today` (gained in period). Leave empty for default GitHub order |
| `maxItems` | Integer | `100` | Maximum number of items to return |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "mode": "repositories",
    "language": "python",
    "since": "weekly",
    "sortBy": "stars-today",
    "maxItems": 50
}
```

### Output

#### Repository output

```json
{
    "rank": 1,
    "author": "openai",
    "name": "tiktoken",
    "fullName": "openai/tiktoken",
    "url": "https://github.com/openai/tiktoken",
    "description": "Fast BPE tokeniser for use with OpenAI's models",
    "language": "Python",
    "stars": 12000,
    "forks": 800,
    "starsGained": 450,
    "builtBy": [
        { "username": "user1", "avatarUrl": "https://avatars..." }
    ],
    "topics": ["tokenization", "openai", "gpt"]
}
```

#### Developer output

```json
{
    "rank": 1,
    "username": "torvalds",
    "fullName": "Linus Torvalds",
    "profileUrl": "https://github.com/torvalds",
    "avatarUrl": "https://avatars...",
    "worksFor": "",
    "popularRepo": {
        "name": "linux",
        "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux",
        "description": "Linux kernel source tree"
    }
}
```

### Use cases

- **Technology scouting** — discover rising frameworks, libraries, and tools before they go mainstream
- **Market research** — identify trending languages and developer ecosystem shifts
- **Recruiting** — find active top developers by language and region
- **Content creation** — power newsletters, blog posts, and dashboards about trending open source
- **Investment intelligence** — track momentum in specific technology categories
- **Competitive analysis** — monitor repos gaining traction in your domain

### How to use

1. Open the actor on the Apify Store.
2. Select `mode` (repositories or developers).
3. Optionally set a `language`, `since` time range, and `sortBy`.
4. Click **Start** and wait for the run to complete.
5. Export results to JSON, CSV, Excel, or connect via the Apify API.

Schedule recurring runs to track trending repos over time and build a historical dataset of GitHub momentum.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Choose whether to scrape trending repositories or trending developers.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Filter by programming language (e.g. python, javascript, typescript, rust, go). Leave empty for all languages.

## `since` (type: `string`):

Time period for trending results: today, this week, or this month.

## `spokenLanguageCode` (type: `string`):

Filter by spoken language of the repository description. Use ISO language codes (e.g. en for English, zh for Chinese, ja for Japanese, ko for Korean, es for Spanish, de for German, fr for French, pt-BR for Brazilian Portuguese). Leave empty for all spoken languages.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort scraped results by total stars or stars gained today. Default uses GitHub's own ranking.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of items (repos or developers) to return. GitHub shows ~25 per page.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "repositories",
  "language": "",
  "since": "daily",
  "spokenLanguageCode": "",
  "sortBy": "",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("resounding_diplomacy/github-trending-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("resounding_diplomacy/github-trending-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call resounding_diplomacy/github-trending-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=resounding_diplomacy/github-trending-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/2bcgLLDGZKe13hdIE/builds/PPzKTcXM26r4RTa91/openapi.json