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Search repositories

Find repositories via various criteria. This method returns up to 100 results per page.

The q search term can also contain any combination of the supported repository search qualifiers as described by the in-browser repository search documentation and search syntax documentation:

in Qualifies which fields are searched. With this qualifier you can restrict the search to just the repository name, description, readme, or any combination of these.
size Finds repositories that match a certain size (in kilobytes).
forks Filters repositories based on the number of forks.
fork Filters whether forked repositories should be included (true) or only forked repositories should be returned (only).
created or pushed Filters repositories based on date of creation, or when they were last updated.
user or repo Limits searches to a specific user or repository.
language Searches repositories based on the language they’re written in.
stars Searches repositories based on the number of stars.

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Name	Description	Example	Type	Default
Query parameters
order	The sort order if `sort` parameter is provided. One of `asc` or `desc`.		string?	desc
q	The search keywords, as well as any qualifiers.	tetris+language:assembly	string?
sort	The sort field. One of `stars`, `forks`, or `updated`. Default: results are sorted by best match.		string?
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Code	Description	Headers	Body
200			application/json \| example { "total_count": 40, "incomplete_results": false, "items": [{ "id": 3081286, "name": "Tetris", "full_name": "dtrupenn/Tetris", "owner": { "login": "dtrupenn", "id": 872147, "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e7956084e75f239de85d3a31bc172ace?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/dtrupenn", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/dtrupenn/received_events", "type": "User" }, "private": false, "html_url": "https://github.com/dtrupenn/Tetris", "description": "A C implementation of Tetris using Pennsim through LC4", "fork": false, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/dtrupenn/Tetris", "created_at": "2012-01-01T00:31:50Z", "updated_at": "2013-01-05T17:58:47Z", "pushed_at": "2012-01-01T00:37:02Z", "homepage": "", "size": 524, "stargazers_count": 1, "watchers_count": 1, "language": "Assembly", "forks_count": 0, "open_issues_count": 0, "master_branch": "master", "default_branch": "master", "score": 10.309712 }] } { "total_count": 40, "incomplete_results": false, "items": [{ "id": 3081286, "name": "Tetris", "full_name": "dtrupenn/Tetris", "owner": { "login": "dtrupenn", "id": 872147, "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e7956084e75f239de85d3a31bc172ace?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/dtrupenn", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/dtrupenn/received_events", "type": "User" }, "private": false, "html_url": "https://github.com/dtrupenn/Tetris", "description": "A C implementation of Tetris using Pennsim through LC4", "fork": false, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/dtrupenn/Tetris", "created_at": "2012-01-01T00:31:50Z", "updated_at": "2013-01-05T17:58:47Z", "pushed_at": "2012-01-01T00:37:02Z", "homepage": "", "size": 524, "stargazers_count": 1, "watchers_count": 1, "language": "Assembly", "forks_count": 0, "open_issues_count": 0, "master_branch": "master", "default_branch": "master", "score": 10.309712 }] }

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