What is github-trending?

A tool for reading GitHub Trending, the page that lists repositories gaining attention on GitHub, and extracting details about them.

It finds trending repositories for daily, weekly, or monthly periods, with optional programming-language filters, descriptions, languages, stars, and links.

It avoids manually checking the page and organizes the results by language and time period.

github-trending — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by DamiMartinez

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add DamiMartinez/scrapeagent --skill github-trending

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DamiMartinez/scrapeagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/damimartinez/scrapeagent/github-trending/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/damimartinez/scrapeagent/github-trending)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/damimartinez/scrapeagent/github-trending"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/damimartinez/scrapeagent/github-trending/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/damimartinez/scrapeagent/github-trending"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/damimartinez/scrapeagent/github-trending.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 533 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00053	$0.00533
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00213
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00107
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00053

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7d01e4e6ac54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-trending scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

scrapeagent/skills/github-trending/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Overview

Scrapes https://github.com/trending for trending repositories. GitHub requires JavaScript rendering — use playwright.

Parameters

language (optional): programming language, e.g., python, javascript, rust, go
since (optional): time period — daily (default), weekly, monthly

URL Construction

All repos: https://github.com/trending
By language: https://github.com/trending/python
By period: https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
Combined: https://github.com/trending/python?since=weekly

Ask the user for filters before scraping. Use defaults if not specified.

Instructions

Construct the URL based on user-specified language and/or period
Use playwright to navigate to the URL (GitHub requires JS)
Wait for .Box-row elements to appear
For each article.Box-row extract:
- rank: position in list (1-based index)
- repo: h2 a text — clean whitespace, format as owner/repo
- url: h2 a href — prepend https://github.com if relative
- description: p.col-9 text — strip whitespace (may be empty)
- language: [itemprop="programmingLanguage"] text (may be empty)
- stars: a[href$="/stargazers"] text — extract number, remove commas
- forks: a[href$="/forks"] text — extract number, remove commas
- stars_today: .d-inline-block.float-sm-right text — extract number
Save with columns: rank, repo, url, description, language, stars, forks, stars_today

Notes

GitHub uses JS rendering — always use playwright, never fetch
stars_today may say "X stars today" or "X stars this week/month" depending on since
Empty description is normal — save as empty string
Typically returns 25 repos per page

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 7d01e4e6ac54

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-trending is a skill published in the GitHub repository DamiMartinez/scrapeagent (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 533 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Research

github-trending next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
github-trendingDamiMartinez/scrapeagent	Skill	12	7mo ago	Apache-2.0	A	53	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	today	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	314k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	103	Claude Code