cli-web-gh-trending

CLI for GitHub Trending repositories and developers. Installed at: cli-web-gh-trending.

Quick Start

# List trending repos today
cli-web-gh-trending repos list --json

# List trending Python repos this week
cli-web-gh-trending repos list --language python --since weekly --json

# List trending developers
cli-web-gh-trending developers list --json

Always use --json when parsing output programmatically.

Commands

repos list

List trending GitHub repositories with optional language and time-range filters.

cli-web-gh-trending repos list [OPTIONS] --json

Key options:

Output fields:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "owner": "langchain-ai",
  "name": "open-swe",
  "full_name": "langchain-ai/open-swe",
  "description": "An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent",
  "language": "Python",
  "stars": 6777,
  "forks": 854,
  "stars_today": 955,
  "url": "https://github.com/langchain-ai/open-swe",
  "contributors": ["bracesproul", "aran-yogesh"]
}

developers list

List trending GitHub developers with optional language and time-range filters.

cli-web-gh-trending developers list [OPTIONS] --json

Key options:

Output fields:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "login": "njbrake",
  "name": "Nathan Brake",
  "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33383515",
  "profile_url": "https://github.com/njbrake",
  "popular_repo": "njbrake/agent-of-empires",
  "popular_repo_desc": "A strategy game powered by AI agents"
}

Agent Patterns

# Get top 5 trending Python repos this week
cli-web-gh-trending repos list --language python --since weekly --json | python -c "
import json, sys
repos = json.load(sys.stdin)
for r in repos[:5]:
    print(f\"{r['rank']}. {r['full_name']} — {r['stars_today']} stars today\")
"

# Find trending repos in any language, monthly
cli-web-gh-trending repos list --since monthly --json

# Top developer this week with their popular repo
cli-web-gh-trending developers list --since weekly --json | python -c "
import json, sys
devs = json.load(sys.stdin)
top = devs[0]
print(f\"{top['name']} ({top['login']}) — {top['popular_repo']}\")
"

# Trending repos filtered by spoken language (Chinese repos)
cli-web-gh-trending repos list --spoken-language zh --json

# Count trending repos by language (run default list and inspect)
cli-web-gh-trending repos list --json

Notes

• Auth: Not required — GitHub Trending is public data.
• Read-only: GitHub Trending has no write operations (it's a discovery feature).
• Rate limiting: GitHub may rate-limit scrapers. Avoid making many rapid requests.
• Result count: Developers always returns 25. Repos may return 15-25 depending on GitHub's current page.
• Language codes: Use lowercase language names as they appear on GitHub (e.g., c++ not cpp).
• contributors field in repos output is currently always [] (GitHub's HTML no longer renders "Built by" with the expected structure). Field is present but empty.
• popular_repo_desc in developers output may be null for most entries.