GitHub

GitHub Trending Developers API

github.com/trending/developers — windowed ranks with popularRepo + followers (2 credits).

Scrapes github.com/trending/developers (source: "github.com/trending/developers") for developers ranked in a since=daily|weekly|monthly window — not REST /search/users with followers:>1000 (all-time most-followed). Each row: rank, login, name, url, avatar, popularRepo/popularRepoUrl/popularRepoDescription, plus followers, following, bio, company, location, publicRepos, ownerType hydrated from GET /users/{login}. No Search relevance score field. Flat 2 credits. Page usually ≤25 rows (no cursor).

Docs: https://captapi.com/apis/github-trending-developers

get/v1/github/trending-developers

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.captapi.com
  • URL: https://api.captapi.com/v1/github/trending-developers
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • API key in header X-API-Key

Query parameters

sincestring

Trending window: daily (default), weekly, or monthly — matches github.com/trending/developers?since=.

languagestring

Optional programming-language slug → /trending/developers/{language}.

limitinteger

Max items to return (default 25, max 100). Flat 2 credits per call.

cacheboolean

Set true to serve from the 24h response cache (0 credits on hit). Default false — always fetch fresh.

Response

Success. The data object for this endpoint.

successunknown required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 3 revisions of this API.