GitHub Search API

The GitHub Search API is a dedicated REST interface designed to query repositories, code, commits, issues, and users across the entire GitHub platform.

Developers use the GitHub Search API to locate specific platform resources by sending GET requests to endpoints under api.github.com/search (such as /search/repositories or /search/code). The API parses complex query parameters (like language, stars, or creation date) to return up to 1,000 highly relevant results per search. Because search operations are resource-intensive, GitHub enforces a strict, separate rate limit for these endpoints: authenticated requests are capped at 30 queries per minute, while unauthenticated requests are limited to 10 per minute.

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search