how to search github.com for multiple topics

topics-search.txt

Github.com ui .currently does not natively supoport search for multiple topic tags as of now. However their api allows you to query multiple tags. Below is a simple example to query github.com with ecs and go topic tags.

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.mercy-preview+json" \
https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=topic:ecs+topic:go

Response from the github can be rather verbose so lets filter only relavant info such repo url and description.

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.mercy-preview+json" \
https://api.github.com/search/repositories\?q\=topic:ecs+topic:go | jq '.items[] | {url:.url, description:.description}'

Nice 👍

I'm able to search GitHub like topic:go topic:ecs and I seem to get only results that include both topics. I got the tip from your gist, thanks! 👍

I'm able to search GitHub like topic:go topic:ecs and I seem to get only results that include both topics. I got the tip from your gist, thanks! 👍

thanks, that's a good idea!

Awesome . Thanks !

thanks

@chmac This is great.

This is how it looks like

And this is the matching url https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Agui+topic%3Aterminal+topic%3Acurses

Your answers are AND operator between topics.
How about the OR operator between topics? any ideas on that?

I'd like to use the OR operator for topics @behnam7171, but I haven't found a way yet

OR operator is not supported in REST API, you have to issue multiple calls and combine the result. @behnam7171 @arivasnxt

@behnam7171 @arivasnxt @schnell18

With the in qualifier you can restrict your search to the repository name, repository description, repository topics, contents of the README file, or any combination of these.

react OR angular OR python in:topics

react OR angular OR python in:topics

Thanks for the information! The method works for topics less than 7, otherwise github API complains: More than five AND / OR / NOT operators were used.

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seems like there is a better way of calling github api. check this out:
https://github.com/octokit/octokit.js
it works with github graphql

👍 I tried openai and backup. 🙂

With GitHub CLI, it looks like this can be done with:

gh search repos --topic ecs --topic go

or if you want JSON and/or additional fields:

gh search repos --topic ecs --topic go --json url,description,stargazersCount,createdAt,updatedAt

AND is implied with multiple --topic parameters and the default sort order is the number of stars