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Searching for user's repositories leads to "Unprocessable Entity" failure #24572
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I’m trying to get the public repositories of a given Github user using the repository Search API. For some of the users it works properly, but for some I receive the following: For example, the following query will trigger the error: https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:ironshay Going via the web UI (https://github.com/ironshay?tab=repositories) leads to a message that the user has no public repositories, which is what I expected the search API to return as well. Can you please provide details regarding this error and why it happens? Thanks |
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For whoever is interested in this, it seems that this error can appear if you search for a user that has only private repositories and no public repositories whatsoever. So as I understand, you have several response options:
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I don't know why this is marked as an answer without a resolution? I have private repository so how can I resolve this without having to make it public. |
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For whoever is interested in this, it seems that this error can appear if you search for a user that has only private repositories and no public repositories whatsoever.
So as I understand, you have several response options:
User has no private repositories - you will receive a response with his public repositories.
User has private repositories and public repositories - you will receive a response with his public repositories.
User has only private repositories - you will receive this “Validation failed” error.
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