# GitHub Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/github/github-search-api/  
**Provider:** GitHub — https://apis.io/providers/github/  
**Base URL:** https://api.github.com/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search/search?apiVersion=2022-11-28

GitHub Search API is one of 350 APIs that [GitHub](https://apis.io/providers/github/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Discovery and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The GitHub Search API lets you programmatically find and filter content across GitHubincluding repositories, code, issues and pull requests, commits, users, topics, and labelsusing a powerful query language with qualifiers (for example by language, stars, forks, org/user, path/filename, label, state, author, or committer).

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/openapi/github-search-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search

## Other GitHub APIs (12)

- [GitHub Events API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-events-api/)
- [GitHub Feeds API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-feeds-api/)
- [GitHub Gists API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-gists-api/)
- [GitHub Issues API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-issues-api/)
- [GitHub Licenses API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-licenses-api/)
- [GitHub Markdown API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-markdown-api/)
- [GitHub Meta API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-meta-api/)
- [GitHub Notifications API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-notifications-api/)
- [GitHub Octocat API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-octocat-api/)
- [GitHub Projects API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-projects-api/)
- [GitHub Repos API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-repos-api/)
- [GitHub User API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-user-api/)

## Tags

Discovery, Search

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