HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Invalid, duplicate or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Invalid worker key.
404	`not_found`	Public source record unavailable; SocialFetch aliases return data.lookupStatus=not_found with HTTP 200.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	GitHub throttled retrieval.
502	`upstream_error` `upstream_challenged` `unsupported_page`	Source retrieval failed or the source contract changed.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `response_too_large` `payload_too_complex` `request_limit`	A fixed safety or resource boundary was reached.
503	`busy`	All worker slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/github/trending" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/github/trending",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/github/trending",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`GitHub request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/github/trending",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={},
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/github/trending", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/github/trending"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "since": "daily",
  "language": null,
  "spoken_language_code": null,
  "repositories": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "owner": "example",
      "repo": "repo",
      "full_name": "example/repo",
      "url": "https://github.com/example/repo",
      "description": "Synthetic repository",
      "language": "TypeScript",
      "language_color": "#123456",
      "stars_count": 1234,
      "forks_count": 56,
      "stars_today": 17,
      "stars_today_text": "17 stars today",
      "built_by": [
        {
          "username": "example",
          "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42"
        }
      ],
      "starsInPeriod": 17,
      "period": "daily"
    }
  ],
  "data": {
    "since": "daily",
    "language": null,
    "spokenLanguageCode": null,
    "repositories": [
      {
        "rank": 1,
        "owner": "example",
        "repo": "repo",
        "fullName": "example/repo",
        "url": "https://github.com/example/repo",
        "description": "Synthetic repository",
        "language": "TypeScript",
        "languageColor": "#123456",
        "starsCount": 1234,
        "forksCount": 56,
        "starsToday": 17,
        "starsTodayText": "17 stars today",
        "builtBy": [
          {
            "username": "example",
            "avatarUrl": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42"
          }
        ],
        "starsInPeriod": 17,
        "period": "daily"
      }
    ],
    "totalResults": 1
  },
  "platform": "github",
  "endpoint": "/v1/github/trending/repositories",
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/trending?since=daily",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_html",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 504,
    "durationMs": 1
  }
}

Invalid, duplicate or unsupported parameters.

{
  "platform": "github",
  "endpoint": "string",
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "since": "daily",
  "language": "string",
  "developers": [
    {
      "rank": 0,
      "username": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "url": "https://example.com/",
      "avatar_url": "https://example.com/",
      "popular_repository": {
        "owner": "string",
        "repo": "string",
        "full_name": "string",
        "url": "https://example.com/",
        "name": "string",
        "description": "string"
      }
    }
  ],
  "data": {
    "since": "daily",
    "language": "string",
    "developers": [
      {
        "rank": 0,
        "handle": "string",
        "displayName": "string",
        "profileUrl": "https://example.com/",
        "avatarUrl": "https://example.com/",
        "popularRepository": {
          "owner": "string",
          "repo": "string",
          "fullName": "string",
          "url": "https://example.com/",
          "name": "string",
          "description": "string"
        }
      }
    ],
    "totalResults": 0
  }
}