How many user limit searches will github have?

Question

I'm trying to search the repository using github api, and I wonder how many people limit the number of people I can search.

For example, I'm trying to write an api as below, and I'm wondering how many people "user:XXX" is here.

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:taetaetae+user:black9p+user:asuraiv

I want you to help me with how many people are supported and if there are related documents.

Thank you.

Answer 1

For the search api, you are limited by the maximum size of the search query which is 256 characters :

The Search API does not support queries that:

• are longer than 256 characters (not including operators or qualifiers).
• have more than five AND, OR, or NOT operators. These search queries will return a "Validation failed" error message.

But if you want to reduce the number of request, you can use GraphQL api and the following request using aliases:

query { 
  user0: user(login: "taetaetae") {
    name
    login
    createdAt
  }
  user1: user(login:"black9p"){
    name
    login
    createdAt
  }
  user2: user(login:"asuraiv"){
    name
    login
    createdAt
  }
}

You could also use fragments :

query { 
  user0: user(login: "taetaetae") {
    ...UserFragment
  }
  user1: user(login:"black9p"){
    ...UserFragment
  }
  user2: user(login:"asuraiv"){
    ...UserFragment
  }
}
fragment UserFragment on User {
  name
  login
  createdAt
}

Output :

{
  "data": {
    "user0": {
      "name": "taetaetae",
      "login": "taetaetae",
      "createdAt": "2015-02-12T02:27:40Z"
    },
    "user1": {
      "name": "Seongduck Paek",
      "login": "black9p",
      "createdAt": "2018-01-07T11:53:13Z"
    },
    "user2": {
      "name": "Ju Pyo Hong",
      "login": "asuraiv",
      "createdAt": "2017-08-04T16:23:09Z"
    }
  }
}

Try this in the explorer