How to get N commits for a repository that match a certain string with github api?

Asked Apr 21 '21 at 14:08

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The example on the docs shows that to find commits that match a string, + can be used as in:

q=repo:octocat/Spoon-Knife+css

if one would like to look for commits that include css in the Spoon-Knife repo for octocat. I wonder if there's a way I can get N numbers of commits (for example, get only 10, or get 10,000)

I see there are two parameters I might be able to use, but only to get up to 100:

per_page    integer     query          Results per page (max 100).

page        integer     query          Page number of the results to fetch.

Not really sure how to use per_page to get way more commits than 100.

asked Apr 21 '21 at 14:08

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https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/traversing-with-pagination – Bertrand Martel Apr 21 '21 at 17:37
@BertrandMartel what I understand after reading this is that I should query the same url, with per_page=100 (which is max) as many times as I need to reach my desired number. e.g. Loop over 20 times to get 2000 items. Is that correct? – uber Apr 21 '21 at 20:00
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yes that's correct, you increment the page param and set per_page to 100 – Bertrand Martel Apr 21 '21 at 20:02
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but the search api is limited to 1000 results max see [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37602893/github-search-limit-results) – Bertrand Martel Apr 21 '21 at 20:02
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default is most recent first I think, do you have an example ? – Bertrand Martel Apr 21 '21 at 20:53
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The link header for v3 api. See the first link – Bertrand Martel Apr 21 '21 at 21:04

How to get N commits for a repository that match a certain string with github api?

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