gh-search

Search GitHub for repositories, code, issues, and more

TLDR

Search repositories

$ gh search repos [query]

Search issues

$ gh search issues [query]

Search pull requests

$ gh search prs [query]

Search code

$ gh search code [query]

Search commits

$ gh search commits [query]

Search with filters

$ gh search repos [query] --language [python] --stars "[>100]"

SYNOPSIS

gh search type query [options]

gh search provides command-line access to GitHub's powerful search capabilities across repositories, code, issues, pull requests, and commits. It supports GitHub's full search syntax including qualifiers, filters, and boolean operators.Repository search enables finding projects by language, stars, topics, and other metadata. Code search indexes file contents across public repositories, useful for finding implementation examples. Issue and PR search support filtering by state, author, labels, and mentions.

PARAMETERS

--language lang

Filter by programming language (repos, code, issues, prs).

--stars range

Filter by star count (repos only; e.g. `>100`).

--owner user

Filter by repository owner.

--repo owner/repo

Filter by repository (code, issues, prs, commits).

--topic topic

Filter on topic (repos).

--license key

Filter based on license type (repos).

--sort field

Sort fetched results (e.g. stars, forks, updated).

--order asc|desc

Order of results (with --sort).

-L, --limit num

Maximum number of results (default 30).

--json fields

Output JSON with the specified fields.

-w, --web

Open search results in a browser.

SUBCOMMANDS

repos

Search repositories.

issues

Search issues.

prs

Search pull requests.

code

Search code.

commits

Search commits.