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The /repositories/ endpoint searches for code repositories across GitHub and GitLab in a single request. Internally, it runs two separate searches — one scoped to site:github.com and one to site:gitlab.com — and concatenates the results into a single array. This makes it convenient for discovering open-source projects without having to query each platform separately.
Because the endpoint runs two searches internally, the response can contain up to 2 × limit results — limit URLs from GitHub and limit URLs from GitLab. The actual count depends on how many results each search returns.

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Request

GET /repositories/?query={query}&limit={limit}

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Parameters

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query
string
required
The repository search query. Use project names, technology names, programming languages, or topic keywords. URL-encode spaces as + or %20.
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limit
integer
required
Maximum number of results to return per platform. The total response may contain up to 2 × limit URLs.

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Response

Returns a JSON array of URL strings. GitHub results appear first, followed by GitLab results.
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[*]
string
A URL to a repository page on GitHub (github.com/...) or GitLab (gitlab.com/...).

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Example

curl "http://localhost:8000/repositories/?query=python+web+scraper&limit=3"
Response
[
  "https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy",
  "https://github.com/psf/requests-html",
  "https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup",
  "https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart",
  "https://gitlab.com/droberin/scrapy-plugins",
  "https://gitlab.com/example/web-spider"
]

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Error response

500
{ "error": "Repository search failed" }

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Use case

This endpoint is useful for building datasets of open-source code repositories. Pair it with the GitHub API or a git clone script to retrieve repository contents, README files, or source code for training code-focused LLMs.

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