Search Issues And Pull Requests
Find issues by state and keyword. This method returns up to 100 results per page.
When searching for issues, you can get text match metadata for the issue title, issue body, and issue comment body fields when you pass the text-match media type. For more details about how to receive highlighted
search results, see Text match metadata.
For example, if you want to find the oldest unresolved Python bugs on Windows. Your query might look something like this.
q=windows+label:bug+language:python+state:open&sort=created&order=asc
This query searches for the keyword windows, within any open issue that is labeled as bug. The search runs across repositories whose primary language is Python. The results are sorted by creation date in ascending order, which means the oldest issues appear first in the search results.
Note: For user-to-server GitHub App requests, you can't retrieve a combination of issues and pull requests in a single query. Requests that don't include the is:issue or is:pull-request qualifier will receive an HTTP 422 Unprocessable Entity response. To get results for both issues and pull requests, you must send separate queries for issues and pull requests. For more information about the is qualifier, see "Searching only issues or pull requests.".
To learn more, visit the GitHub documentation.
Basic Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Query | The query contains one or more search keywords and qualifiers. Qualifiers allow you to limit your search to specific areas of GitHub. The REST API supports the same qualifiers as the web interface for GitHub. To learn more about the format of the query, see Constructing a search query. See "Searching issues and pull requests" for a detailed list of qualifiers. |
| Return All Pages | Automatically fetch all resources, page by page. |
Advanced Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Order | Determines whether the first search result returned is the highest number of matches (desc) or lowest number of matches (asc). This parameter is ignored unless you provide sort. |
| Page | Page number of the results to fetch. |
| Per Page | The number of results per page (max 100). |
| Sort | Sorts the results of your query by the number of comments, reactions, reactions-+1, reactions--1, reactions-smile, reactions-thinking_face, reactions-heart, reactions-tada, or interactions. You can also sort results by how recently the items were created or updated, Default: best match. |
Example Output
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"incomplete_results": false,
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"assignee": null,
"author_association": "COLLABORATOR",
"body": "...",
"closed_at": null,
"comments": 15,
"comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/batterseapower/pinyin-toolkit/issues/132/comments",
"created_at": "2009-07-12T20:10:41Z",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/batterseapower/pinyin-toolkit/issues/132/events",
"html_url": "https://github.com/batterseapower/pinyin-toolkit/issues/132",
"id": 35802,
"labels": [
{
"color": "ff0000",
"id": 4,
"name": "bug",
"node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWw0",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/batterseapower/pinyin-toolkit/labels/bug"
}
],
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"locked": true,
"milestone": {
"closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
"closed_issues": 8,
"created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
"creator": {
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"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"gravatar_id": "",
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
"id": 1,
"login": "octocat",
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
"site_admin": false,
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
"type": "User",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
},
"description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
"due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z",
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
"id": 1002604,
"labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
"node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
"number": 1,
"open_issues": 4,
"state": "open",
"title": "v1.0",
"updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1"
},
"node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUzNTgwMg==",
"number": 132,
"pull_request": {
"diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
"patch_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
"url": "https://api/github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347"
},
"repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/batterseapower/pinyin-toolkit",
"score": 1,
"state": "open",
"title": "Line Number Indexes Beyond 20 Not Displayed",
"updated_at": "2009-07-19T09:23:43Z",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/batterseapower/pinyin-toolkit/issues/132",
"user": {
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"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/events{/privacy}",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/gists{/gist_id}",
"gravatar_id": "",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Nick3C",
"id": 90254,
"login": "Nick3C",
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjkwMjU0",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/orgs",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/received_events",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/repos",
"site_admin": true,
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C/subscriptions",
"type": "User",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Nick3C"
}
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"total_count": 280
}
}
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