GitHub Trending JavaScript Repos Scraper

Shared on August 19, 2025

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Write a script to scrape today's trending JavaScript repositories from GitHub trending page (https://github.com/trending/javascript). Extract repository name, author, stars, and description. Save results as CSV.

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Sample Output

Example output generated from this coding session

github-trending-javascript.csv

1.28 KB • text/csv

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name	author	stars	description
Fabric	danielmiessler	33092	Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.
awesome-mac	jaywcjlove	87284	 Now we have become very big, Different from the original idea. Collect premium software in various categories.
express	expressjs	67531	Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
Sigma-Web-Dev-Course	CodeWithHarry	9807	Source Code for Sigma Web Development Course
SillyTavern	SillyTavern	17400	LLM Frontend for Power Users.
yjs	yjs	19886	Shared data types for building collaborative software
server	UnblockNeteaseMusic	7200	Revive unavailable songs for Netease Cloud Music (Refactored & Enhanced version)
youtube	code-charity	3897	Open YouTube & Video browser-extension [top~1] Enrich your experience&choice!🧰200+options; clever features📌set&forget📌Longest-standing. Join🧩us?👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 ⋮ {playback\|content discovery\|player\|extra buttons\|distractions\|related videos\|shorts\|ads\|quality\|codec\|full tab\|full screen}
uBlock	gorhill	57757	uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

Conversation

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💭 Reasoning

The user wants me to create a script to scrape GitHub's trending JavaScript repositories and save the results as CSV. I need to:

First understand the existing codebase structure
Plan the task using TodoWrite
Navigate to the GitHub trending page to understand the DOM structure
Write a Playwright script that extracts the required data
Save the results as CSV
Test the solution

Let me start by exploring the existing codebase and then plan the task.

Update Tasks5 tasks

Explore existing Playwright project structure and dependenciespending

Navigate to GitHub trending page and analyze DOM structurepending

Create Playwright script to scrape repository datapending

Implement CSV export functionality for scraped datapending

Test the complete scraping scriptpending

List Directory/home/user/project

Read File/home/user/project/package.json

Read File/home/user/project/main.js

Read File/home/user/project/utils.js

Update Tasks5 tasks

Explore existing Playwright project structure and dependenciescompleted

Navigate to GitHub trending page and analyze DOM structurein progress

Create Playwright script to scrape repository datapending

Implement CSV export functionality for scraped datapending

Test the complete scraping scriptpending

Navigateopen https://github.com/trending/javascript in new tab

Screenshotcapture page

Inspect ElementFirst repository item container

Inspect ElementRepository name and author link

Inspect ElementStars count for repository

Execute JSExtract all repository data from trending page

Update Tasks5 tasks

Explore existing Playwright project structure and dependenciescompleted

Navigate to GitHub trending page and analyze DOM structurecompleted

Create Playwright script to scrape repository datain progress

Implement CSV export functionality for scraped datapending

Test the complete scraping scriptpending

Edit File/home/user/project/main.js

Update Tasks5 tasks

Explore existing Playwright project structure and dependenciescompleted

Navigate to GitHub trending page and analyze DOM structurecompleted

Create Playwright script to scrape repository datacompleted

Implement CSV export functionality for scraped datacompleted

Test the complete scraping scriptin progress

Terminalcd /home/user/project && npm start

Read File/home/user/project/output/github-trending-javascript.csv

Update Tasks5 tasks

Explore existing Playwright project structure and dependenciescompleted

Navigate to GitHub trending page and analyze DOM structurecompleted

Create Playwright script to scrape repository datacompleted

Implement CSV export functionality for scraped datacompleted

Test the complete scraping scriptcompleted

Script successfully created! I've updated the existing Playwright project to scrape today's trending JavaScript repositories from GitHub. The script:

Navigates to GitHub's trending JavaScript page
Extracts repository name, author, star count, and description
Saves results to
```
output/github-trending-javascript.csv
```

The scraper found 9 trending repositories and successfully saved them to CSV format. You can run it anytime with

npm start

Frequently Asked Questions

Key insights from this conversation

What is this conversation about?

We built a script to scrape today's trending JavaScript repos on GitHub and save repo name, author, stars, and description to CSV.

What was accomplished?

A Playwright-based scraper navigates to the trending page, extracts fields, and writes them to output/github-trending-javascript.csv (found 9 repos).

What technologies/tools were used?

Node.js, Playwright, CSV output; npm start runs the scraper.

How can I use or reuse the results?

Run npm start to fetch today’s trends; the CSV is saved at output/github-trending-javascript.csv for easy reuse.