# RubyGems Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/search-api/  
**Provider:** RubyGems — https://apis.io/providers/rubygems/  
**Base URL:** https://rubygems.org/api/v1  
**Documentation:** https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/

RubyGems Search API is one of 9 APIs that [RubyGems](https://apis.io/providers/rubygems/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Ruby, Search, and Discovery. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

The RubyGems Search API allows developers to search for gems by matching a query string against gem names and descriptions. Returns paginated results of active gems.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rubygems/refs/heads/main/openapi/rubygems-search-api-openapi.yml

## Other RubyGems APIs (8)

- [RubyGems Gems API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/gems-api/)
- [RubyGems Downloads API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/downloads-api/)
- [RubyGems Activity API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/activity-api/)
- [RubyGems Webhooks API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/webhooks-api/)
- [RubyGems Dependencies API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/rubygems-dependencies-api/)
- [RubyGems Owners API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/rubygems-owners-api/)
- [RubyGems Profiles API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/rubygems-profiles-api/)
- [RubyGems Versions API](https://apis.io/apis/rubygems/rubygems-versions-api/)

## Tags

Ruby, Search, Discovery

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