GitHub seems to use their API to write the trending page and don’t present it back as a particular API. You need to use the Repository Search API. I’ve followed the examples on this page, which could solve your needs by:
# We'll use the `date` command to get the date for "7 days ago"
$ date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'
# => 2013-07-15
curl -G https://api.github.com/search/repositories --data-urlencode "sort=stars" --data-urlencode "order=desc" --data-urlencode "q=language:java" --data-urlencode "q=created:>`date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'`"
And then go from there. You can also make your life a lot easier by installing jq on OS X or other platforms to get prettier output:
curl -G https://api.github.com/search/repositories --data-urlencode "sort=stars" --data-urlencode "order=desc" --data-urlencode "q=language:java" --data-urlencode "q=created:>`date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'`" | jq ".items[0,1,2] | {name, description, language, watchers_count, html_url}"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- -- 77 161k 77 125k 0 0 131k 0 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0100 161k 100 161k 0 0 163k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 163k
{
"name": "vibrant.js",
"description": "Extract prominent colors from an image. JS port of Android's Palette.",
"language": "JavaScript",
"watchers_count": 1466,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jariz/vibrant.js"
}
{
"name": "JSPatch",
"description": "JSPatch bridge Objective-C and JavaScript using the Objective-C runtime. You can call any Objective-C class and method in JavaScript by just including a small engine.",
"language": "Objective-C",
"watchers_count": 830,
"html_url": "https://github.com/bang590/JSPatch"
}
{
"name": "KRVideoPlayer",
"description": "类似Weico的播放器，支持竖屏模式下全屏播放",
"language": "Objective-C",
"watchers_count": 524,
"html_url": "https://github.com/36Kr-Mobile/KRVideoPlayer"
}