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GitHub Search Repositories
Search GitHub public repositories using GitHub's search API. Returns repository metadata including name, description, language, star count, fork count, topics, license, and creation/update dates. Supports filtering by language, topic, stars, forks, and creation date. Useful for finding open-source bioinformatics tools, scientific computing packages, and research codebases. Rate limit: 10 requests/minute unauthenticated.
Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 113msCortexa
Status
The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.
- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 113ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"properties": {
"order": {
"description": "Sort direction: 'desc' (default) or 'asc'",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"per_page": {
"description": "Results per page (default 30, max 100)",
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"q": {
"description": "Search query with optional qualifiers. Examples: 'bioinformatics language:python stars:>100', 'protein structure prediction', 'topic:machine-learning language:python', 'alphafold protein', 'single cell RNA sequencing', 'user:deepmind'",
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"description": "Sort by: 'stars', 'forks', 'help-wanted-issues', 'updated'. Default: best match.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "object"
}Examples (1)
Default GitHub Search Repositories call
public-safeinput
{
"q": ""
}Expected response keys: success
Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_GitHub_search_repositories
- Tool name
- GitHub_search_repositories
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse