HotRepo

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotrepo": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hotrepo.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

12 tools

• get_trending

  Get a HotRepo trending board: the repositories on GitHub Trending (or HotRepo's new-repository board) for one UTC day, ranked by stars gained (new boards use measured Stars/hour), each with HotRepo's one-line review. From 2026-11-01 boards list only repositories with a…

• get_repo

  Read HotRepo's full review of a repository (Markdown), with its stats, topic, daily trending history (the all-languages board; each day's best_github_rank_that_day is the best position it reached on GitHub's page that day, null before 2026-10-24) and Hacker News threads…

• search_repos

  Search repositories that HotRepo has reviewed, newest reviews first. Use get_repo for the full review. Free returns at most 10 results per call.

• list_topics

  List HotRepo's topics (each reviewed project belongs to exactly one, by what it helps people do) with the number of reviewed projects in each.

• get_topic

  List reviewed repositories in one topic, most recently trending first. Free returns at most 10 per call.

• get_monthly_report

  Get a HotRepo monthly report: the repositories that gained the most stars on the daily trending board during a month, the most notable new repositories, and leaders per topic, with an editorial introduction.

• get_weekly_digest

  Get a HotRepo weekly digest, the weekly email also published on hotrepo.ai/weekly: an editorial introduction (a headline and a few themes), the week's 10 biggest gainers, notable new repositories, and each day's top gainer. stars_that_week is the highest star count seen…

• list_favorites

  List the repositories the API key's owner has favorited on hotrepo.ai, most recently favorited first, with HotRepo's one-line review when one is published. Use get_repo for the full review. Favorites are added on the website's project pages, not through this server.

• get_similar_repos

  [Pro] Find reviewed repositories similar to a given one: alternatives and related projects, ranked by how closely HotRepo's one-line review, the GitHub description, name and GitHub topics match (projects in the same HotRepo topic score a little higher). Only repositories…

• get_star_history

  [Pro] A repository's star growth over its whole life: stars at the end of each month, stars added on each of the last 30 days, stars gained over the last 7 / 30 / 90 / 365 days, and the days it was on GitHub's all-languages daily Trending page with its best position that…

• compare_repos

  [Pro] Compare 2 to 5 repositories side by side: stars, forks, age, language, license, HotRepo topic and one-line review, days on GitHub's all-languages daily Trending (HotRepo's records start 2026-05-10) and best position there (real positions from 2026-10-24), recent…

• get_favorite_releases

  [Pro] New releases of the repositories the API key's owner has favorited on hotrepo.ai that HotRepo found in the last 30 days (by when HotRepo picked them up, up to the 50 most recent; a release published earlier but found late is included), sorted by release date…

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