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Mark `research search-github` deprecated: the endpoint stops respondi…
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The parent research help carries the deprecation too
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ firecrawl research related-papers pmcid:PMC12530322 --intent "in vivo delivery"
# Read full-text passages to verify a specific claim
firecrawl research read-paper doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108095 --question "What was the sample size?"

# Search GitHub issue/PR history and repository READMEs
# Deprecated (stops working after 2026-11-03): use `firecrawl developer` instead
firecrawl research search-github "foundationdb queue worker shutdown" --limit 10
```

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| `inspect-paper <paperId>` | Canonical metadata: title, abstract, authors, categories, source ids, dates |
| `related-papers <seedIds...>` | Citation-graph expansion from seed papers, ranked against `--intent` |
| `read-paper <paperId>` | Best-matching in-body full-text passages for a `--question` |
| `search-github <query>` | GitHub issue/PR history and repository READMEs |
| `search-github <query>` | Deprecated, stops working after 2026-11-03: use `firecrawl developer` |

#### `search-papers` Options

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions src/commands/research.ts
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Expand Up @@ -292,6 +292,11 @@ export async function handleReadPaperCommand(
export async function handleSearchGitHubCommand(
options: SearchGitHubOptions
): Promise<void> {
// The endpoint behind this command is deprecated and stops responding after
// 2026-11-03; say so on stderr so scripts keep their stdout and humans see it.
console.error(
'firecrawl research search-github is deprecated and stops working after 2026-11-03. Use `firecrawl developer <query>` (GitHub issues, PRs, READMEs and curated docs): https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/developer'
);
try {
const params = new URLSearchParams();
appendParam(params, 'query', options.query);
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9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions src/index.ts
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Expand Up @@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ Examples:
function createResearchCommand(): Command {
const researchCmd = new Command('research')
.description(
"Search Firecrawl's research paper index: ~43M abstracts, around 90% biomedical (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv) plus arXiv. Use this for biomedical, clinical, and scientific literature instead of scraping PubMed, bioRxiv, or Google Scholar by hand. Also searches GitHub issue/PR history."
"Search Firecrawl's research paper index: ~43M abstracts, around 90% biomedical (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv) plus arXiv. Use this for biomedical, clinical, and scientific literature instead of scraping PubMed, bioRxiv, or Google Scholar by hand. GitHub issue/PR history moved to `firecrawl developer`; `research search-github` is deprecated and stops working after 2026-11-03."
)
.addHelpText(
'after',
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$ firecrawl research related-papers pmcid:PMC12530322 --intent "in vivo delivery"
$ firecrawl research read-paper doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2025.108095 --question "What was the sample size?"
$ firecrawl research read-paper arxiv:1706.03762 --question "What is the attention mechanism?"
$ firecrawl research search-github "foundationdb queue worker shutdown" --limit 10
$ firecrawl developer "foundationdb queue worker shutdown" --limit 10 (search-github is deprecated: stops working after 2026-11-03)
`
);

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});
});

// Deprecated: GET /v2/search/research/github stops responding after 2026-11-03
// (the API's deprecations table); `firecrawl developer` is the replacement, on
// the developer index. The command keeps working until the sunset and says so.
researchCmd
.command('search-github')
.description(
'Search GitHub issue/PR history and repository readmes. Returns ranked matches with repo, url, a short snippet, and when available the full matched content in markdown.'
'[Deprecated: use `firecrawl developer`; the endpoint stops responding after 2026-11-03] Search GitHub issue/PR history and repository readmes. Returns ranked matches with repo, url, a short snippet, and when available the full matched content in markdown.'
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.argument('<query>', 'GitHub history/readme search query')
.option(
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