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Search issues and pull requests
An MCP tool from the GitHub API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Search issues and pull requests Find issues by state and keyword. This method returns up to 100 results per page. When searching for issues, you can get text match metadata for the issue **title**, issue **body**, and issue… [GET /search/issues]
Name on the gateway: github_api__search_issues_and_pull_requests · read-only.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
q required | string | The query contains one or more search keywords and qualifiers. Qualifiers… |
sort | comments | reactions | reactions-+1 | reactions--1 | reactions-smile | reactions-thinking_face | reactions-heart | reactions-tada | interactions | created | updated | Sorts the results of your query by the number of comments, reactions… |
order | desc | asc | Determines whether the first search result returned is the highest number of… |
per_page | integer | The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using… |
page | integer | The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using… |
advanced_search | string | Set to true to use advanced search. Example: http://api.github.com/search/issue… |
search_type | semantic | hybrid | The type of search to perform on issues. When not specified, the default is… |
How to call it
Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:
{
"name": "github_api__search_issues_and_pull_requests",
"arguments": {
"q": "…"
}
}Or connect the GitHub API server directly, which lists 1,221 tools including this one:
claude mcp add --transport http hj-github-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/github-api \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Try asking
Use the search issues and pull requests tool with q set to ….