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title: "SearchAPI.io - GitHub Search API"
description: "SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-github-search on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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The GitHub Search API scrapes search results from github.com/search. A single engine covers every GitHub search vertical, selected with the `type` parameter: `repositories` (default), `users`, `issues`, `pull_requests`, `commits`, `topics`, `discussions`, `packages`, `wikis`, and `marketplace`. Each type returns its own `organic_results` shape. The query (`q`) accepts GitHub's full search qualifier syntax (e.g. `language:ruby stars:>1000 topic:cli` for repositories, or `is:pr is:merged` for issues). GitHub only exposes the first 1,000 results for any query (10 per page, up to page 100); `search_information.total_results` reports the true total match count. The available `sort` values depend on `type`: - `repositories`: `stars`, `forks`, `help_wanted_issues`, `updated` - `users`: `followers`, `repositories`, `joined` - `issues` / `pull_requests`: `created`, `updated`, `comments`, `reactions`, `interactions` - `commits`: `author_date`, `committer_date` - `discussions`: `updated`, `comments`, `reactions`, `interactions` - `packages`: `updated`, `created`, `downloads` - `wikis`: `updated` - `marketplace`: `updated`, `created`, `popularity` - `topics`: not sortable

- **Tool id:** `searchapi-io-github-search`
- **Provider:** [SearchAPI.io](/providers/searchapi-io)
- **Job:** [Github search search](/reference/jobs/search-github-search) (`search.github-search`)
- **Price:** $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `engine` | string | no | Fixed to "github_search" for this endpoint. Example: "github_search" |
| `order` | string | no |   |
| `page` | integer | no |   |
| `q` | string | yes |   |
| `sort` | string | no |   |
| `type` | string | no |   |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 2 real answers:

```txt
{ pagination: { next, current, total_pages }, organic_results: { id, link, name, owner: { id, type, login, avatar_url }, stars, topics: string[], language, position, full_name, has_issues, updated_at, visibility, description, is_archived, is_sponsorable, language_color, has_funding_file, help_wanted_issues_count, good_first_issue_issues_count }[], search_metadata: { id, status, html_url, json_url, created_at, request_url, total_time_taken, parsing_time_taken, request_time_taken }, language_filters: { name, color, query }[], search_parameters: { q, type, engine }, search_information: { page, qu... ...
```

The shape is cut here. Signed in, `looot inspect searchapi-io-github-search` prints all of it.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"searchapi-io-github-search","input":{"q":"<q>","engine":"github_search"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "searchapi-io-github-search",
    input: {
      q: "<q>",
      engine: "github_search",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "searchapi-io-github-search",
        "input": {
            "q": "<q>",
            "engine": "github_search",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:search.github-search` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/search-github-search).