Query strings don't work for search endpoint

[Pawper]

Please avoid duplicates

• I checked all open bugs and none of them matched my problem.

Reproducible test case

https://runkit.com/pawper/619c82dc8a8edf0008cafe71

Please select the environment(s) that are relevant to your bug report

• TypeScript
• Enterprise
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• Node
• Deno

Version

octokit@1.7.0

What happened?

Not sure if this is a case of me doing it wrong or if it's not working as intended. I'm trying to get a list of my repositories with the subject portfolio-project and it's returning 0 results (should be 1). I did also try the query string in the documentation (GitHub Octocat in:readme user:defunkt) and that returned 0 results as well. I'm assuming the example should return results.

Would you be interested in contributing a fix?

• yes

[Chocrates]

A couple issues with your code @Pawper
You don't need to encode the search string, and the q= is redundant. This should work

const { Octokit } = require("octokit");
const octokit = new Octokit()

async function generateHtml() {
  const queryString = 'user:pawper topic:portfolio-project'
  console.log(queryString)
  let search = await octokit.request('GET /search/repositories', { q: queryString });
  console.log(search)
}

generateHtml()