trending-repos

A CLI tool to fetch and display trending GitHub repositories, filtered by time range and programming language.

Installation

From PyPI

pip install trending-repos

From source

git clone https://github.com/abab754/trending-repos.git
cd trending-repos
python -m venv myenv
source myenv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

trending-repos [OPTIONS]

Options

Examples

# Top 10 trending Python repos from the past week (defaults)
trending-repos

# Top 5 repos from the past day
trending-repos --duration day --limit 5

# Top 20 JavaScript repos from the past month
trending-repos --duration month --limit 20 --language javascript

# Top trending Go repos from the past year
trending-repos -d year -l 15 -lang go

Example output

Trending repos · last week · language: python · top 3
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#1  some-user/awesome-repo
    ★ 4,231 stars  |  Python
    A really awesome Python project

#2  another-user/cool-tool
    ★ 2,108 stars  |  Python
    A cool tool that does cool things

#3  user/project
    ★ 987 stars  |  Python
    No description

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Notes

• Uses the GitHub Search API. No authentication required, but unauthenticated requests are limited to 10 requests per minute.
• Language names must match GitHub's canonical names (e.g. javascript not js, c++ not cpp).