--- title: "Search commits" method: GET path: "/search/commits" tags: ["search"] --- # Search commits `GET /search/commits` Find commits via various criteria on the default branch (usually `main`). This method returns up to 100 results [per page](https://docs.github.com/enterprise-server@3.6/rest/guides/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api). When searching for commits, you can get text match metadata for the **message** field when you provide the `text-match` media type. For more details about how to receive highlighted search results, see [Text match metadata](https://docs.github.com/enterprise-server@3.6/rest/search/search#text-match-metadata). For example, if you want to find commits related to CSS in the [octocat/Spoon-Knife](https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife) repository. Your query would look something like this: `q=repo:octocat/Spoon-Knife+css` ## Query parameters - `q` string, required - `sort` 'author-date' | 'committer-date' - `order` 'desc' | 'asc' - `per_page` integer - `page` integer ## Response `200` Response - object - `total_count` integer, required - `incomplete_results` boolean, required - `items` CommitSearchResultItem[], required - `url` string, uri, required - `sha` string, required - `html_url` string, uri, required - `comments_url` string, uri, required - `commit` object, required - `author` object, required - `name` string, required - `email` string, required - `date` string, date-time, required - `committer` NullableGitUser, nullable, required — Metaproperties for Git author/committer information. - `name` string - `email` string - `date` string - `comment_count` integer, required - `message` string, required - `tree` object, required - `sha` string, required - `url` string, uri, required - `url` string, uri, required - `verification` Verification - `verified` boolean, required - `reason` string, required - `payload` string, nullable, required - `signature` string, nullable, required - `author` NullableSimpleUser, nullable, required — A GitHub user. - `name` string, nullable - `email` string, nullable - `login` string, required - `id` integer, required - `node_id` string, required - `avatar_url` string, uri, required - `gravatar_id` string, nullable, required - `url` string, uri, required - `html_url` string, uri, required - `followers_url` string, uri, required - `following_url` string, required - `gists_url` string, required - `starred_url` string, required - `subscriptions_url` string, uri, required - `organizations_url` string, uri, required - `repos_url` string, uri, required - `events_url` string, required - `received_events_url` string, uri, required - `type` string, required - `site_admin` boolean, required - `starred_at` string - `committer` NullableGitUser, nullable, required — Metaproperties for Git author/committer information. - `name` string - `email` string - `date` string - `parents` object[], required - `url` string - `html_url` string - `sha` string - `repository` MinimalRepository, required — Minimal Repository - `id` integer, required - `node_id` string, required - `name` string, required - `full_name` string, required - `owner` SimpleUser, required — A GitHub user. - `name` string, nullable - `email` string, nullable - `login` string, required - `id` integer, required - `node_id` string, required - `avatar_url` string, uri, required - `gravatar_id` string, nullable, required - `url` string, uri, required - `html_url` string, uri, required - `followers_url` string, uri, required - `following_url` string, required - `gists_url` string, required - `starred_url` string, required - `subscriptions_url` string, uri, required - `organizations_url` string, uri, required - `repos_url` string, uri, required - `events_url` string, required - `received_events_url` string, uri, required - `type` string, required - `site_admin` boolean, required - `starred_at` string - `private` boolean, required - `html_url` string, uri, required - `description` string, nullable, required - `fork` boolean, required - `url` string, uri, required - `archive_url` string, required - `assignees_url` string, required - `blobs_url` string, required - `branches_url` string, required - `collaborators_url` string, required - `comments_url` string, required - `commits_url` string, required - `compare_url` string, required - `contents_url` string, required - `contributors_url` string, uri, required - `deployments_url` string, uri, required - `downloads_url` string, uri, required - `events_url` string, uri, required - `forks_url` string, uri, required - `git_commits_url` string, required - `git_refs_url` string, required - `git_tags_url` string, required - `git_url` string - `issue_comment_url` string, required - `issue_events_url` string, required - `issues_url` string, required - `keys_url` string, required - `labels_url` string, required - `languages_url` string, uri, required - `merges_url` string, uri, required - `milestones_url` string, required - `notifications_url` string, required - `pulls_url` string, required - `releases_url` string, required - `ssh_url` string - `stargazers_url` string, uri, required - `statuses_url` string, required - `subscribers_url` string, uri, required - `subscription_url` string, uri, required - `tags_url` string, uri, required - `teams_url` string, uri, required - `trees_url` string, required - `clone_url` string - `mirror_url` string, nullable - `hooks_url` string, uri, required - `svn_url` string - `homepage` string, nullable - `language` string, nullable - `forks_count` integer - `stargazers_count` integer - `watchers_count` integer - `size` integer — The size of the repository. Size is calculated hourly. When a repository is initially created, the size is 0. - `default_branch` string - `open_issues_count` integer - `is_template` boolean - `topics` string[] - `has_issues` boolean - `has_projects` boolean - `has_wiki` boolean - `has_pages` boolean - `has_downloads` boolean - `archived` boolean - `disabled` boolean - `visibility` string - `pushed_at` string, date-time, nullable - `created_at` string, date-time, nullable - `updated_at` string, date-time, nullable - `permissions` object - `admin` boolean - `maintain` boolean - `push` boolean - `triage` boolean - `pull` boolean - `role_name` string - `temp_clone_token` string - `delete_branch_on_merge` boolean - `subscribers_count` integer - `network_count` integer - `code_of_conduct` CodeOfConduct — Code Of Conduct - `key` string, required - `name` string, required - `url` string, uri, required - `body` string - `html_url` string, uri, nullable, required - `license` object, nullable - `key` string - `name` string - `spdx_id` string - `url` string - `node_id` string - `forks` integer - `open_issues` integer - `watchers` integer - `allow_forking` boolean - `web_commit_signoff_required` boolean - `score` number, required - `node_id` string, required - `text_matches` object[] - `object_url` string - `object_type` string, nullable - `property` string - `fragment` string - `matches` object[] - `text` string - `indices` integer[] ## Other responses - `304` — Not modified --- [API](https://skmtc.net/github/apis/github-v3-rest-api-5.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/github/apis/github-v3-rest-api-5/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/github/github-v3-rest-api-5/versions/50ae54440071/schema)