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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/openvsx-api/v1/search" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/openvsx-api/v1/search", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/openvsx-api/v1/search");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/openvsx-api/v1/search",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 20,
        "query": "python",
        "total": 630,
        "results": [
            {
                "id": "meta.pyrefly",
                "name": "pyrefly",
                "install": "code --install-extension meta.pyrefly",
                "version": "1.0.0",
                "namespace": "meta",
                "description": "Python autocomplete, typechecking, code navigation and more! Powered by Pyrefly, an open-source language server",
                "display_name": "Pyrefly - Python Language Tooling",
                "open_vsx_url": "https://open-vsx.org/extension/meta/pyrefly",
                "average_rating": 4.428571428571429,
                "download_count": 64406180
            },
            {
                "id": "ms-python.python",
                "name": "python",
                "install": "code --install-extension ms-python.python",
                "version": "2026.4.0",
                "namespace": "ms-python",
                "description": "Python language support with extension access points for IntelliSense (Pylance), Debugging (Python Debugger), linting, formatting, refactoring, unit tests, and more.",
                "display_name": "Python",
                "open_vsx_url": "https://open-vsx.org/extension/ms-python/python",
                "average_rating": 3.8,
                "download_count": 47751386
            },
            {
                "id": "ms-python.debugpy",
                "name": "debugpy",
                "install": "code --install-extension ms-python.debugpy",
                "version": "2026.6.0",
                "namespace": "ms-python",
                "description": "Python Debugger extension using debugpy.",
                "display_name": "Python Debugger",
                "open_vsx_url": "https://open-vsx.org/extension/ms-python/debugpy",
                "average_rating": 5,
                "download_count": 46685438
            },
            {
                "id": "ms-python.vscode-python-envs",
                "name": "vscode-python-envs",
                "install": "code --install-extension ms-python.vscode-python-envs",
                "version": "1.30.0",
                "namespace": "ms-python",
                "description": "Provides a unified python environment experience",
                "display_name": "Python Environments",
                "open_vsx_url": "https://open-vsx.org/extension/ms-python/vscode-python-envs",
                "average_rating": 3,
                "download_count": 30804020
            },
            {
                "id": "ms-toolsai.jupyter",
                "name": "jupyter",
                "install": "code --install-extension ms-toolsai.jupyter",
                "version": "2025.9.1",
                "namespace": "ms-toolsai",
                "description": "Jupyter notebook support, interactive programming and computing that supports Intellisense, debugging and more.",
                "display_name": "Jupyter",
 
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