List trending GitHub developers · GitHub API
Returns GitHub's trending developers for a time window, optionally for one programming language, with each developer's popular repository.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/github/trending/developers \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- languagequery
- Optional trending coding language filter.
- sincequery
- Trending time window. Default: `daily`.
- The parameter for this GitHub operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the GitHub API in the developer category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs GitHub public data alongside Hacker News, social or web data, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Track what is moving on GitHub for trend-discovery and content-planning agents.
- Compare live GitHub signals with other public social data sources available through the same MCP and HTTP surface.
- Give an AI agent a stable GitHub data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize GitHub responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields on each record in data
A successful List trending GitHub developers call returns data as an array; each record carries these fields.
- ranknumber | null
- Position on the trending developers page.
- usernamestring | null
- GitHub username.
- display_namestring | null
- Display name when available.
- profile_urlstring | null
- Canonical public GitHub profile URL.
- avatar_urlstring | null
- Avatar image URL when available.
- popular_repositoryobject | null
- Popular repository GitHub highlights for this developer.
More GitHub operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Get a GitHub repository
Returns a public GitHub repository: description, topics, license, default branch, languages, stars, forks, watchers and open issues. Returns `not_found` when the repository does not exist.
List trending GitHub repositories
Returns GitHub's trending repositories for a time window (`daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`), optionally for one programming or spoken language, with stars gained in the window.
Get a GitHub user or organization
Returns a public GitHub user or organization profile: name, bio, company, location, blog, follower and repository counts. Returns `not_found` when the account does not exist.
List a GitHub user's public activity
Returns a GitHub user's public activity one month at a time (commits, pull requests, issues, reviews). The cursor pages backward month by month through the selected `year`.
Get a GitHub user's contribution graph
Returns a GitHub user's daily contribution counts and total for one calendar year (default: the current year). Returns `not_found` when the user does not exist.
List a GitHub account's followers
Returns the accounts that follow a GitHub user or organization. Paginate with `cursor`.