# GitHub Trending Discovery - Daily Repositories & Changes — workflow

## Choose this tool

Use GitHub daily Trending lists to assemble an engineering research queue, newsletter candidates or emerging-project watchlists with displayed ranks and star counts.

Useful output columns: `fullName`, `listLanguage`, `rank`, `starsToday`, `stars`, `forks`, `programmingLanguage`, `rankChange`, `comparisonStatus`.

## Practical workflow

Select one language and a small result cap. Review each repository name, description, displayed rank and stars today against the source link. Add literal keyword filters for a focused feed, then compare later saved observations. Evaluate project documentation and activity separately before adopting a tool.

## Check the fit

Daily Trending pages only, not every repository or a complete measure of adoption. Source-defined stars today differs from changes between your observations. Rank and stars are popularity signals, not evidence of revenue, quality, safety or commercial success. Missing repositories are not labeled removed.

## Real output sample

One selected row from a 2026-11-05 run. Selected original scalar fields from one actual saved observation; nested data and private artifact links are omitted.

Run: PsXGP9vV1I7PWf5l3. Summary status: ok. Incomplete: false.

Dated bounded release evidence for this exact input and build. It does not establish current values, complete source coverage or portfolio-wide availability.

```json
{
  "recordId": "2b9ba2783e5411d2c9c9805f34e767aa1575e9b813279181f80509fb84f60bbc",
  "title": "NVIDIA/auto-ontology",
  "fullName": "NVIDIA/auto-ontology",
  "listLanguage": "python",
  "rank": 1,
  "starsToday": 2050,
  "stars": 6067,
  "forks": 479,
  "programmingLanguage": "Python",
  "rankChange": null,
  "comparisonStatus": "not_requested",
  "url": "https://github.com/NVIDIA/auto-ontology",
  "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/trending/python",
  "observedAt": "2026-11-05T09:21:57.420Z"
}
```