Difference between repositories listed in UI and API search result

GitHub API Development and Support
#1

I see some odd behavior regarding repositories search API.

Checking some random user, I can see that he has 29 repositories listed in his Github user page:https://github.com/adidi?tab=repositories

When trying to run a query that gets all of his repositories, I get only 14 (total count): https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:adidi

Both requests were performed from the browser without any authentication, so there is no permission issue involved.

Do you know what can cause this?

Thanks,

Ilia

#2

For whoever is interested, the issue is that forked repositories are filtered out by default.

From the documenation:

To include forks in the search results, you will need to add fork:true or fork:only to your query.
For more information, see “Searching in forks.”

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#3

query for total repos

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:adidi+fork:true

and private repos are invisible.