github-trending

Scrape and display GitHub trending repositories with language and time-period filtering. Access GitHub trending repositories and developers data. GitHub does NOT provide an official trending API. The trending page at github.com/trending must be scraped directly or use the GitHub Search API as an alternative. Scrape github.com/trending directly using Cheerio: Use GitHub's Search API to find recently created repos with high stars: Note: The Search API has rate limits (10 requests/minute unauthenticated, 30/minute with token). - Provides two approaches: direct web scraping of github.com/trending using Cheerio, or GitHub Search API as an official alternative - Extracts repository metadata including owner, name, description, programming language, star count, forks, and stars gained in the selected period - Supports filtering by programming language and time range (daily, weekly, monthly) - Includes ready-to-use Next.js API route and React hook for server-side caching and client integration - No Official API : GitHub's trending page has no official API - scraping is the only option - Rate Limiting : Respect GitHub's servers - cache aggressively - HTML Structure Changes : GitHub may change their HTML - monitor for breakages - User-Agent : Always include a User-Agent header - Server-Side Only : Do scraping server-side to avoid CORS issues - GitHub Trending Page : - GitHub Search API :