diff --git a/backend/api.js b/backend/api.js
index 6014ec8..ba90550 100644
--- a/backend/api.js
+++ b/backend/api.js
@@ -4,37 +4,17 @@ const cheerio = require('cheerio');
 
 const app = express();
 
-app.get('/api/trending', async (req, res) => {
-    try {
-        const { data } = await axios.get('https://github.com/trending');
-        const $ = cheerio.load(data);
-        const trendingRepos = [];
-
-        $('article.Box-row').each((index, element) => {
-            const repo = {
-                name: $(element).find('h1 a').text().trim(),
-                description: $(element).find('p').text().trim(),
-            };
-            trendingRepos.push(repo);
-        });
-
-        res.json(trendingRepos);
-    } catch (error) {
-        console.error('Error fetching trending repositories:', error.message);
-        res.status(500).json({ error: 'Failed to fetch trending repositories', details: error.message });
-    }
-});
-
-#GitHub might block your request if it detects excessive scraping
-app.listen(3000, () => {
-    #cacheing responses
-    let cachedTrendingRepos = null;
+// Cache variables
+let cachedTrendingRepos = null;
 let lastFetchTime = null;
 
+// Define cache duration in milliseconds (10 minutes)
+const cacheDuration = 10 * 60 * 1000;
+
 app.get('/api/trending', async (req, res) => {
-    const cacheDuration = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10 minutes
     const now = Date.now();
 
+    // Check if cached data is valid
     if (cachedTrendingRepos && lastFetchTime && now - lastFetchTime < cacheDuration) {
         return res.json(cachedTrendingRepos);
     }
@@ -45,6 +25,7 @@ app.get('/api/trending', async (req, res) => {
                 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
             }
         });
+
         const $ = cheerio.load(data);
         const trendingRepos = [];
 
@@ -59,6 +40,7 @@ app.get('/api/trending', async (req, res) => {
             trendingRepos.push(repo);
         });
 
+        // Update cache
         cachedTrendingRepos = trendingRepos;
         lastFetchTime = now;
 
@@ -69,10 +51,6 @@ app.get('/api/trending', async (req, res) => {
     }
 });
 
+app.listen(3000, () => {
     console.log('Server is running on http://localhost:3000');
 });
-const { data } = await axios.get('https://github.com/trending', {
-    headers: {
-        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
-    }
-});