diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa30cdf..c8bbf93 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Archived repositories are filtered out.
 > :warning: GitHub API are rate limited, and search API in particular has the additional [secondary rate limit](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#secondary-rate-limits). _package-adoption_ implements the [best practices guidelines](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/best-practices-for-integrators#dealing-with-secondary-rate-limits) to deal with it, but you should know that limitations could happen in any case.
 
 > :warning: GitHub search API are not 100% reliable and sometimes return deleted / outdated files or multiple versions of the same file. The library version in the output could be inaccurate for this reason.
-> There is a [known issue](https://github.com/community/community/discussions/20633#discussioncomment-3735796) with package names with a scope containing hyphen character, e.g. `@typescript-eslint/parser`.
+> There is a [known issue](https://github.com/community/community/discussions/20633#discussioncomment-3735796) with package names with a scope containing hyphen character, e.g. `@typescript-eslint/parser`. A slower version of the main scan function will be automatically used to handle this case.
 
 ## Install
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 59fc76b..da40fd0 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "package-adoption",
-  "version": "1.3.8",
+  "version": "1.3.9",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "package-adoption",
-      "version": "1.3.8",
+      "version": "1.3.9",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@octokit/plugin-retry": "^4.0.3",
diff --git a/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrg.ts b/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrg.ts
index 742a70e..d4c0f9f 100644
--- a/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrg.ts
+++ b/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrg.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { readPackageJson } from './readPackageJson';
 import { init, octokit } from './octokitInit';
 import { isStale } from './isRepoStale';
 import { validateConfig } from './validateConfig';
+import { getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower } from './getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower';
 
 /**
  * It takes an organization name and a package name, and returns a list of all the repositories in that
@@ -47,7 +48,13 @@ export const getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrg = async (
 
     for await (const { data: items } of foundPackageJsonFiles) {
       if (items.length === 0) {
-        console.log(`[package-adoption]: No results for ${pkgName}`);
+        // workaround to address github search issue https://github.com/community/community/discussions/20633#discussioncomment-3735796
+        const repositoriesWithPackage =
+          await getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower({ ...config }, octokit);
+        if (repositoriesWithPackage?.length === 0) {
+          console.log(`[package-adoption]: No results for ${pkgName}`);
+        }
+        return repositoriesWithPackage;
       }
 
       for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
diff --git a/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower.ts b/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..959b64f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import path from 'path';
+import { GetResponseDataTypeFromEndpointMethod } from '@octokit/types';
+import { ErrorWithResponse, InputParameters, RelevantRepo } from './types';
+import { readPackageJson } from './readPackageJson';
+import { isStale } from './isRepoStale';
+import { Octokit } from '@octokit/rest';
+
+/**
+ * It takes an organization name and a package name, and returns a list of all the repositories in that
+ * organization that have that package in their package.json file
+ * @param {InputParameters} config - InputParameters
+ * @returns An array of objects with the installation info for the library
+ */
+export const getFilteredReposWithPackageForOrgSlower = async (
+  config: InputParameters,
+  octokit: Octokit
+): Promise<RelevantRepo[] | undefined> => {
+  const { org, daysUntilStale = 365, pkgName } = config;
+  const repositoriesWithPackage: RelevantRepo[] = [];
+
+  type IteratorResponseItemDataType = GetResponseDataTypeFromEndpointMethod<
+    typeof octokit.repos.get
+  >;
+
+  try {
+    /* The plain listForOrg API just returns 30 items (a page), we need paginate iterator to get the whole list */
+    const allRepos = octokit.paginate.iterator<IteratorResponseItemDataType>(
+      'GET /orgs/:org/repos',
+      {
+        org,
+        type: 'all',
+      }
+    );
+
+    for await (const { data: repos } of allRepos) {
+      for (let i = 0; i < repos.length; i++) {
+        const repo = repos[i];
+
+        if (
+          repo.archived === false &&
+          (repo.language === 'TypeScript' || repo.language === 'JavaScript') &&
+          !isStale(repo.pushed_at, daysUntilStale)
+        ) {
+          try {
+            const packageJsonResponse = await octokit.search.code({
+              q: `repo:${org}/${repo.name}+filename:package.json`,
+            });
+            const foundFiles = packageJsonResponse.data.items;
+
+            for (let i = 0; i < foundFiles.length; i++) {
+              const packageJsonFile = foundFiles[i];
+
+              const pathDirParts = packageJsonFile.path.split('/').slice(0, -1);
+
+              const installationPath =
+                pathDirParts?.length > 0 ? path.join(...pathDirParts) : 'root';
+
+              if (
+                // The search matches package-lock too
+                packageJsonFile.name === 'package.json' &&
+                // sometimes GitHub search returns multiple versions of the same file
+                !repositoriesWithPackage.find(
+                  (relevantRepo) =>
+                    relevantRepo.name === repo.name &&
+                    relevantRepo.installationPath === installationPath
+                )
+              ) {
+                const packageJsonData = await readPackageJson({
+                  org,
+                  repoName: repo.name,
+                  pkgName,
+                  packageJsonPath: packageJsonFile.path,
+                  installationPath,
+                });
+                if (packageJsonData) {
+                  repositoriesWithPackage.push(packageJsonData);
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          } catch (error) {
+            const typeSafeError = error as ErrorWithResponse;
+
+            if (typeSafeError.response === null) {
+              console.error(error);
+            } else if (typeSafeError.response.status === 404) {
+              console.error(
+                `[package-adoption]: No package.json found.\n${typeSafeError?.response?.url}\n\n`
+              );
+            } else if (typeSafeError.response.status === 403) {
+              // API rate limit exceeded for user ID
+              console.error(
+                `[package-adoption]: ${typeSafeError?.response?.data.message}\n${typeSafeError?.response?.url}\n\n`
+              );
+            } else {
+              console.error(typeSafeError.response);
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return repositoriesWithPackage;
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error('[package-adoption]:', error);
+  }
+};