GitHub Trending Fetcher

A lightweight Python CLI tool to fetch and display trending GitHub repositories without authentication.

Features

• Fetch GitHub trending repositories (all languages or specific)
• Filter by daily, weekly, or monthly
• Display stars, forks, language, and description
• Save results to JSON
• No authentication required (uses public GitHub API)

Installation

pip install requests

Usage

python trending.py                    # Today's trending (all languages)
python trending.py --lang python --period weekly   # Weekly Python trending
python trending.py --limit 20 --output results.json  # Save top 20 to JSON

Example Output

======================================================================
        🔥 GitHub Trending (Today) - All Languages
======================================================================

 1. opencodeai/opencode
    ⭐ 12.3k | 🍴 1.2k | 📁 Python
    Efficient code editing model
    🔗 https://github.com/opencodeai/opencode

 2. some-repo/example
    ⭐ 8.5k | 🍴 600 | 📁 TypeScript
    Description here
    🔗 https://github.com/some-repo/example

API Used

GitHub Search API (public, 5000 req/hr rate limit for unauthenticated)

License

MIT