# GitHub Trending Developers

Returns the developers GitHub is currently trending: login, display name, profile url and the repository they are trending for, with its description. Accepts the same language and period filters as the trending repositories endpoint.

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/github-api/github_trending_developers](https://scrappa.co/docs/github-api/github_trending_developers)
- **API group:** GitHub API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/github/trending/developers`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `language` | string | No | Filter by programming language, e.g. python or go. Omit for the all-language trending page. |
| `since` | string | No | Trending window: daily, weekly or monthly. Defaults to daily. |
| `spoken_language_code` | string | No | Filter by the language developers speak, e.g. en. Omit for no filter. |

## Example request

```bash
#!/bin/bash

curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
    "https://scrappa.co/api/github/trending/developers?since=weekly"
```

## Example response

```json
{
    "search_parameters": {
        "engine": "github_trending_developers",
        "since": "weekly"
    },
    "since": "weekly",
    "developers": [
        {
            "login": "octocat",
            "name": "The Octocat",
            "profile_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
            "popular_repository": {
                "name": "project",
                "url": "https://github.com/octocat/project"
            }
        }
    ],
    "result_count": 1
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 422 | Validation Error | A parameter failed validation. |
| 404 | Not Found | GitHub has no public resource at that address. For a repository this also covers a private or renamed repository, which is indistinguishable anonymously. |
| 503 | GitHub Upstream Unavailable | The upstream service is temporarily unavailable. Please retry shortly. |
| 500 | Parser Drift | GitHub returned a response shape this parser does not recognise. The incident has been reported; retrying will return the same result. |
| 406 | Not Acceptable Upstream | GitHub has no JSON representation for this route, or rejected the request headers. Never charged. |

## More Scrappa resources

- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
- [Pricing](https://scrappa.co/pricing)