GitHub Trending Has No API. I Rebuilt It — and It Caught 4 Malware Repos Made Entirely of README Files
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Two days ago my daily GitHub digest pipeline returned nothing. Not "no results" — nothing. curl https://github.com/trending sat there for 19.4 seconds and returned HTTP 000 . No redirect, no block page, no body. Just a dead socket. Trendshift.io answered HTTP 200 in the same minute — with 0 bytes ,…
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- 2026-10-05 04:04 · DEV Community — AI
GitHub Trending Has No API. I Rebuilt It — and It Caught 4 Malware Repos Made Entirely of README Files