Developer Builds Hydra, a Fault-Tolerant GitHub Trending API with Four Data Sources

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A developer built and launched Hydra, a self-healing GitHub Trending API hosted at hydra9.dev, to solve the single-point-of-failure problem common in existing scrapers. The system pulls data from four independent sources so that if one fails due to HTML changes or rate limiting, the service remains operational. A Celery beat task runs every 15 minutes to snapshot trending data into a PostgreSQL database, enabling historical analytics that GitHub's official page does not provide. The API exposes endpoints for tracking new stars, dropped repositories, velocity, and point-in-time history. The project runs on a single 6GB VPS and is available for self-hosting via Docker Compose.

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