TrendScope

A Chrome extension that extracts business intelligence from GitHub's trending repositories. One-click scraping of trending repos with READMEs, compiled into an analysis prompt for Claude.ai.

Features

• Scrapes GitHub trending page (daily/weekly/monthly)
• Fetches README and metadata for each repo via GitHub API
• Generates a comprehensive analysis prompt
• One-click copy to Claude.ai

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository
2. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
3. Enable "Developer mode" (toggle in top right)
4. Click "Load unpacked" and select the trendscope folder
5. The extension icon will appear in your toolbar

Usage

1. Navigate to github.com/trending
2. Click the floating "TrendScope" button in the bottom-right corner
3. Open the extension popup and click "Fetch READMEs"
4. Wait for enrichment to complete
5. Click "Open in Claude" to copy the prompt and open Claude.ai
6. Paste the prompt (Ctrl+V / Cmd+V) and get your analysis

Settings

• GitHub Token: Optional personal access token for higher rate limits (60/hr → 5000/hr)
• README max chars: Maximum characters per README (default: 3000)
• Max repos: Maximum number of repos to process (default: 25)

Rate Limits

Without a GitHub token: 60 requests/hour With a GitHub token: 5000 requests/hour

Each repo requires 2 API calls (metadata + README), so 25 repos = 50 requests.

File Structure

trendscope/
├── manifest.json        # Extension manifest (V3)
├── background.js        # Service worker
├── content.js           # Content script (DOM scraping)
├── popup.html/js/css    # Extension popup
├── results.html/js/css  # Full-page data viewer
├── prompt-builder.js    # Prompt generation
└── icons/               # Extension icons

Privacy

• No data is sent to any server except GitHub's API
• All data is stored locally in your browser
• No analytics or tracking

License

MIT