github-trending-scraper

Scrape GitHub Trending repositories and save to JSON files. Use when the user wants to fetch GitHub trending projects, get popular repositories, scrape trending lists, or requests "get GitHub trending", "scrape GitHub popular projects", or "fetch trending repos" for daily, weekly, or monthly periods.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/lisniuse/github-trending-skill

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/lisniuse/github-trending-skill ~/.claude/skills/lisniuse-github-trending-skill-github-trending-scraper

manifest: SKILL.md

source content

GitHub Trending Scraper

Scrape GitHub Trending repositories across different time periods (daily, weekly, monthly) and save structured data to JSON files.

Usage

Run the scraper script to fetch trending repositories:

python scripts/github_trending_scraper.py

The script will:

Scrape trending repositories for all three periods (daily, weekly, monthly)
Extract project metadata: name, URL, description, language, stars, forks
Save results to
```
github_trending.json
```
in the current directory
Display statistics about scraped projects

Output Format

The generated JSON file contains:

{
  "update_time": "2026-02-09 10:30:00",
  "data": {
    "daily": [...],
    "weekly": [...],
    "monthly": [...]
  }
}

Each project includes:

```
name
```
: Repository full name (owner/repo)
```
url
```
: GitHub repository URL
```
description
```
: Project description
```
language
```
: Primary programming language
```
stars
```
: Total star count
```
forks
```
: Total fork count
```
stars_daily/weekly/monthly
```
: New stars in the period

Dependencies

Install required packages:

pip install requests beautifulsoup4

Or use the provided requirements file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Customization

To scrape only specific periods, modify the

periods

list in the

main()

function of the script.

To change the output filename, modify the

output_file

variable in the script.