GitHub’s search supports a variety of different operations. Here’s a quick cheat sheet for some of the common searches.
For more information, visit our search help section.
Basic search
| This search |
Finds repositories with… |
| cat stars:>100 |
Find cat repositories with greater than 100 stars. |
| user:defunkt |
Get all repositories from the user defunkt. |
| tom location:"San Francisco, CA" |
Find all tom users in "San Francisco, CA". |
| join extension:coffee |
Find all instances of join in code with coffee extension. |
| NOT cat |
Excludes all results containing cat. |
Repository search
Repository search looks through the projects you have access to on GitHub. You can also filter the results:
| This search |
Finds repositories with… |
| cat stars:>100 |
Find cat repositories with greater than 100 stars. |
| user:defunkt |
Get all repositories from the user defunkt. |
| pugs pushed:>2013-01-28 |
Pugs repositories pushed to since Jan 28, 2013. |
| node.js forks:<200 |
Find all node.js repositories with less than 200 forks. |
| jquery size:1024..4089 |
Find jquery repositories between the sizes 1024 and 4089 kB. |
| gitx fork:true |
Repository search includes forks of gitx. |
| gitx fork:only |
Repository search returns only forks of gitx. |
Code search
Code search looks through the files hosted on GitHub. You can also filter the results:
| This search |
Finds repositories with… |
| install repo:charles/privaterepo |
Find all instances of install in code from the repository charles/privaterepo. |
| shogun user:heroku |
Find references to shogun from all public heroku repositories. |
| join extension:coffee |
Find all instances of join in code with coffee extension. |
| system size:>1000 |
Find all instances of system in code of file size greater than 1000kbs. |
| examples path:/docs/ |
Find all examples in the path /docs/. |
| replace fork:true |
Search replace in the source code of forks. |
Issue search
Issue search looks through issues and pull requests on GitHub. You can also filter the results:
| This search |
Finds issues… |
| encoding user:heroku |
Encoding issues across the Heroku organization. |
| cat is:open |
Find cat issues that are open. |
| strange comments:>42 |
Issues with more than 42 comments. |
| hard label:bug |
Hard issues labeled as a bug. |
| author:mojombo |
All issues authored by mojombo. |
| mentions:tpope |
All issues mentioning tpope. |
| assignee:rtomayko |
All issues assigned to rtomayko. |
| exception created:>2012-12-31 |
Created since the beginning of 2013. |
| exception updated:<2013-01-01 |
Last updated before 2013. |
User search
User search finds users with an account on GitHub. You can also filter the results:
| This search |
Finds repositories with… |
| fullname:"Linus Torvalds" |
Find users with the full name "Linus Torvalds". |
| tom location:"San Francisco, CA" |
Find all tom users in "San Francisco, CA". |
| chris followers:100..200 |
Find all chris users with followers between 100 and 200. |
| ryan repos:>10 |
Find all ryan users with more than 10 repositories. |
