Search

Learn and practice the functionalities of search in the GitHub API.

Overview

GitHub has integrated search for numerous types including users, repositories, pull requests, commits, and code. We can search globally across GitHub by choosing “All GitHub” in the search drop-down menu located on the top of a page. Apart from that we can also search locally within a particular repository or organization.

This time we’ll search using API endpoints. GitHub uses the ElasticSearch cluster to index projects whenever a new change is made. Issues or pull requests are indexed at the time of creation or modification.

Search codes

This is a complex feature, and to reduce its complexity, there are some restrictions. These restrictions are as follows:

  • Files smaller than 384KB are searchable.
  • The default branch is searchable.
  • At least one search timeThe time required to locate and identify the desired record. is required while searching the source code.

We need to construct a search query to find our desired result. Let’s suppose we need to search for all the repositories owned by Laura that contain the word programming and python in the README file. Our query looks like ...