How can i search file name in specific Github repository

Question

With Github's search API, i can search for repository's name or user's name.

How can i search the file name in the specific Github repository?

I mean how can i do that: in repo jquery/jquery, i search for "selector" keyword, i will have selector.js, selector-sizzle.js, selector-native.js and selector-folder

Thank you

Answer 1

Another way to get file index's from a repo you can do it the way the file search feature on the web-UI does.

You will however need to replace 1c522832... with a commit hash. Also Github's REST API is weird so you will need -H 'accept: application/json'

curl 'https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree-list/1c52283265a462a100ae63ddf58b4e5884acde86' -H 'accept: application/json' --compressed

Response:

{"paths":[".gitignore",....]}