# GitHub Trending Scraper — Repos, Stars & Language Rankings (`samwise.agency/github-trending`) Actor

Scrape GitHub Trending (daily/weekly/monthly, per language) — the list GitHub has no official API for — plus full repo details and repo search via the official REST API. Clean JSON/CSV for dev-tool market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/samwise.agency/github-trending.md
- **Developed by:** [samwise.agency](https://apify.com/samwise.agency) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 83.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## GitHub Trending Scraper — Repos, Stars & Language Rankings

GitHub famously has **no official API for its Trending page**. This Actor fills that gap: daily/weekly/monthly trending lists per language, plus full repo details and star-sorted repo search via the official REST API.

**What you can extract:**

- 🔥 **Trending repos** — by language and period, with rank, stars, forks, stars-this-period
- 🔬 **Repo details** — topics, license, issues, watchers, timestamps, archived flag
- 🔍 **Repo search** — GitHub qualifiers supported (`language:python stars:>1000`)
- ⭐ **Optional API enrichment** of trending rows

### Quick start

1. Click **Run** — default grabs today's overall trending list
2. Add languages (python, rust, typescript) or your competitors' repos
3. Schedule daily + diff runs = "who's rising in my ecosystem" alerts

### Sample output

```json
{
    "type": "trending-repo",
    "rank": 1,
    "repo": "significant-gravitas/autogpt",
    "url": "https://github.com/significant-gravitas/autogpt",
    "description": "An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous.",
    "language": "Python",
    "stars": 172341,
    "forks": 45102,
    "starsThisPeriod": 412,
    "trendingLanguage": "all",
    "trendingPeriod": "daily"
}
```

### Use cases

- **DevRel & dev-tool marketing** — track what's rising in your ecosystem
- **VCs** — trending velocity as early deal signal
- **Newsletters** — automated "trending this week in Rust" sections
- **Engineering** — monitor dependencies and competitors

### Pricing

Pay per result row delivered.

### FAQ

**Do I need a GitHub token?** No for trending. Optional free token raises API limits for big search/detail runs.

**Data sources?** github.com/trending (public page) and the official GitHub REST API.

# Actor input Schema

## `trendingLanguages` (type: `array`):

Languages for the trending list (e.g. python, typescript, rust). Add an empty string for all languages.

## `trendingPeriod` (type: `string`):

Time window for the trending list.

## `repos` (type: `array`):

owner/name (e.g. apify/crawlee) or full GitHub URLs.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

GitHub repo search, sorted by stars. Supports qualifiers like 'language:python stars:>1000'.

## `enrichTrendingWithApi` (type: `boolean`):

Adds topics, license, issues, created date to each trending repo (one API call per repo).

## `githubToken` (type: `string`):

Optional personal access token to raise API rate limits (needed only for large API-based runs). Create at github.com/settings/tokens — no scopes needed.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cost cap per trending list / search query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "trendingLanguages": [
    ""
  ],
  "trendingPeriod": "daily",
  "repos": [],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "enrichTrendingWithApi": false,
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 25
}
```

# 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 = {
    "trendingLanguages": [
        ""
    ],
    "repos": [],
    "searchQueries": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("samwise.agency/github-trending").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 = {
    "trendingLanguages": [""],
    "repos": [],
    "searchQueries": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("samwise.agency/github-trending").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 '{
  "trendingLanguages": [
    ""
  ],
  "repos": [],
  "searchQueries": []
}' |
apify call samwise.agency/github-trending --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/U9F2pn0Rwq2SnQVtG/builds/hBc2zn9yhjkZuw1mH/openapi.json