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Find GitHub repository through the API without knowing the owner

I am trying to crawl through a list of repositories from a requirements.txt file to get information (e.g. licenses) about the associated repositories I want to be using.

Thus, I do not have the full_name of the repository neither the owner information. e.g. I need to find:

 https://github.com/schutera/HeartSeg-Dataset

Without knowing schutera

Currently I am trying by requesting https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=name:HeartSeg-Dataset but this gives me empty items:

{
  "total_count": 0,
  "incomplete_results": false,
  "items": [

  ]
}

I also found the option to do a search in:name, but I can not wrap my head around how to use this properly:

HeartSeg in:name matches repositories with "HeartSeg" in the repository name. But yeah well, how?

Solution

  • It is me again. So I have not been too far off with what I already did and presented in my question:

    the in:name is properly used as such https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=HeartSeg-Dataset+in:name

    works like a charm, and the remainder is dictionary crunching. Thanks for reading this far.