Searching for repositories by topic using the GitHub GraphQL API#

I wanted to use the GitHub GraphQL API to return all of the repositories on the https://github.com/topics/git-scraping page.

At first glance there isn’t a GraphQL field for that page - but it turns out you can access it using a GitHub search:

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topic:git-scraping sort:updated-desc

An oddity of GitHub search is that sort order can be defined using tokens that form part of the search query!

Here’s a GraphQL query tested here that returns the most recent 100 git-scraping tagged repos, sorted by most recently updated.

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{
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  search(query: "topic:git-scraping sort:updated-desc", type: REPOSITORY, first: 100) {
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    repositoryCount
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    nodes {
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      ... on Repository {
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        nameWithOwner
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        description
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        updatedAt
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        createdAt
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        diskUsage
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      }
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    }
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  }
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}