Search Repositories by Webpage

[timbmg]

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Is there a way to search for repos that have set a website from a specific domain?

[MrAzeeeem23]

Yes, you can search for repositories that have a website set from a specific domain using GitHub's advanced search or the GitHub REST API.

O 1: Using GitHub Search (limited)

GitHub's search doesn't directly let you filter by website domain, but you can try searching in repository metadata using:

in:readme yourdomain.com

or

yourdomain.com in:description

This finds repos where your domain is mentioned in the README or description, which is often where the "website" link appears.

Example:

site:github.com yourdomain.com

Try this in Google or DuckDuckGo to find GitHub repos linking to a specific domain.

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O 2: GitHub REST API (Recommended for Precision)

You can use the GitHub API to list repositories and filter by homepage field, which stores the website URL for each repo.

Here's a basic script example using Node.js and GitHub REST API v3:

const axios = require("axios");

const searchRepos = async () => {
  const query = 'org:YOUR_ORG_NAME'; // or user:USERNAME
  const token = 'YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN'; // personal access token
  const headers = { Authorization: `token ${token}` };
  
  const res = await axios.get(`https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=${query}&per_page=100`, { headers });
  
  const matching = res.data.items.filter(repo =>
    repo.homepage && repo.homepage.includes('yourdomain.com')
  );

  console.log(matching.map(repo => ({
    name: repo.full_name,
    homepage: repo.homepage
  })));
};

searchRepos();

[timbmg]

Thank you!

So it seems it is not possible to find repos by the value in the website field, but I can just filter the results, right?

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