REST API for code search seems to work incorrectly

[sedol1339]

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Hello! I have the following queries:

pytest repo:aio-libs/yarl
unittest repo:aio-libs/yarl
content:unittest repo:aio-libs/yarl
pytest OR unittest repo:aio-libs/yarl
pytest path:*.py repo:aio-libs/yarl

When searching with the https://github.com/search page, they return 25, 1, 1, 25, 12 results accordingly.

However, if I run these queries using REST API, the last 3 queries return wrong count of results:

for Q in "pytest" "unittest" "content:unittest" "pytest OR unittest" "pytest path:*.py"
do
  curl --get -L -s \
    -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
    -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
    --data-urlencode "q=$Q repo:aio-libs/yarl" \
    "https://api.github.com/search/code" | grep total_count
done

Counts: 25, 1, 0, 1, 0

Or with Pygithub which uses REST API:

import os
from github import Github, Auth
github = Github(auth=Auth.Token(os.getenv('GITHUB_TOKEN')))
for query in [
    'pytest repo:aio-libs/yarl',
    'unittest repo:aio-libs/yarl',
    'content:unittest repo:aio-libs/yarl',
    'pytest OR unittest repo:aio-libs/yarl',
    'pytest path:*.py repo:aio-libs/yarl',
]:
    results = list(github.search_code(query=query))
    print(len(results))

Counts: 25, 1, 0, 1, 0

Are my queries incorrect, or is this a bug?

[sedol1339]

Any updates? Or is there another place to report bugs?

[sedol1339]

Up pls answer or suggest a place to report bugs

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