only the first #### search results are available

GitHub REST API · GET /search/repositories · HTTP 422

Status: ✅ verified:server:prod · first seen 2026-10-20 · last confirmed 2026-10-27 · 104 confirmations from 2 vantages

Search returns at most 1,000 results per query: a page past them (per_page 100, page 11) returns HTTP 422 Only the first 1000 search results are available.

What to do

  1. No client-side fix known (by design).

Dimensions

env: prod · plan: any · region: any · account_state: anonymous

Evidence

Probe af:github:probe:search-beyond-1000 (declarative, source) · official doc: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search/search#about-search

Observations: none from reporters yet.

Machine access

curl -s https://apifacts.dev/v0/check \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"target":{"method":"GET","url":"https://api.github.com/search/repositories"},"error":{"status":422,"body_excerpt":"only the first #### search results are available"}}'

YAML: facts/github/search-first-1000-results.yaml

Data: CC BY 4.0 · apifacts registry · This page is generated; edit the YAML, not the page.