# GitHub Trending Repos — Daily / Weekly / Monthly by Language (`v0iddo/github-trending-repos`) Actor

Pull the GitHub Trending repository list — daily, weekly, or monthly — filtered by programming language and spoken language. One row per repo with full\_name, description, language, total stars, stars gained in the period, top contributors. No auth.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/v0iddo/github-trending-repos.md
- **Developed by:** [vøiddo](https://apify.com/v0iddo) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 github trending repo entries

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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 Repos

Pull the GitHub Trending list — daily, weekly, or monthly — by
programming language and spoken language. One row per repo with owner,
description, language, total stars, stars gained in the period, sample
contributors. No auth.

### What you get

```
{
  "snapshotAt":            "2026-06-03T07:55:11+00:00",
  "period":                "daily",
  "languageFilter":        "python",
  "spokenLanguageFilter":  null,
  "rank":                  1,
  "owner":                 "microsoft",
  "repo":                  "markitdown",
  "fullName":              "microsoft/markitdown",
  "url":                   "https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown",
  "description":           "Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.",
  "programmingLanguage":   "Python",
  "languageColor":         "#3572A5",
  "stars":                 53241,
  "forks":                 2710,
  "starsInPeriod":         1265,
  "contributorsSample":    ["afourney", "gagb", "sugatoray"]
}
```

### How to use

**Input.**

```json
{
  "periods":         ["daily", "weekly", "monthly"],
  "languages":       ["python", "rust", "typescript"],
  "spokenLanguages": ["en"]
}
```

`periods` — `daily`, `weekly`, or `monthly`. Empty = `daily`.

`languages` — GitHub language slugs. Common: `python`, `typescript`,
`javascript`, `rust`, `go`, `c++`, `c%23` (C#), `unknown`. Empty = all
languages.

`spokenLanguages` — ISO 639-1 codes for README spoken language. Useful
to filter out non-English-readme noise. Empty = all.

### Pricing

PAY\_PER\_EVENT · `$0.001 per repo_entry` · 1 000 entries = $1.

### Buyer

- Dev-tool marketers tracking competing OSS launches.
- VC associates watching "what's heating up on GitHub this week".
- Newsletter writers building a Monday digest.
- Hiring teams sourcing engineers who are launching popular OSS.

### Source

`https://github.com/trending` — GitHub's server-rendered trending page.
No auth, no rate-limit headers (GitHub is generous for HTML). Actor
paces 0.6 s between pages.

# Actor input Schema

## `periods` (type: `array`):

Which trending windows to pull. Valid: `daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`. Empty = `daily`.

## `languages` (type: `array`):

GitHub language slugs to filter by. Examples: `python`, `typescript`, `rust`, `go`, `c++`, `unknown` (for repos with no detected language). Empty = all languages.

## `spokenLanguages` (type: `array`):

Filter by README spoken language code. Examples: `en`, `zh`, `ja`. Empty = all.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "periods": [
    "daily"
  ],
  "languages": [],
  "spokenLanguages": []
}
```

# 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("v0iddo/github-trending-repos").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("v0iddo/github-trending-repos").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).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 v0iddo/github-trending-repos --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,v0iddo/github-trending-repos"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/P6CVcxXeHQJGdhNFB/builds/hWtJYASITJhdB4mQI/openapi.json