# Known Trending Sites & Quirks

Use this when choosing or verifying a source for trending GitHub repository reports.

## Confirmed Sources

- `https://github.com/trending`
  - Strengths: official, no auth needed, lists daily/weekly/monthly via URL params.
  - Weakness: rendered with JS; `curl` alone may miss content. Reliable fallback: scrape `<article>` tags or switch to the GitHub REST API.

- `https://ossinsight.io/trending`
  - Strengths: daily/weekly/monthly/3-month tabs, backed by GitHub events.
  - Weakness: Next.js client-rendered shell; server HTML often shows a loading skeleton. Verify with a screenshot or API probe before treating it as “no data”.

## Heuristic Matching

If the user remembers a partial name like “Git… Starts/Stats/Stars/Rank”:
1. Try the source list above first.
2. Only then brute-force likely domains, and keep it short.