About searching for discussions

You can search for discussions globally across all of GitHub, or search for discussions within a particular organization or repository. For more information, seeAbout searching on GitHub.

Search by the title, body, or comments

With thein qualifier you can restrict your search for discussions to the title, body, or comments. You can also combine qualifiers to search a combination of title, body, or comments. When you omit thein qualifier, GitHub searches the title, body, and comments.

Search within a user's or organization's repositories

To search discussions in all repositories owned by a certain user or organization, you can use theuser ororg qualifier. To search discussions in a specific repository, you can use therepo qualifier.

Search by open or closed state

You can filter discussions based on whether they're open or closed using theis qualifier.

Search based on whether a discussion was answered

You can search for a discussion that has been answered using theis qualifier.

Search based on whether a discussion is locked

You can search for a discussion that has been locked using theis qualifier. For more information, seeModerating discussions.

Filter by repository visibility

You can filter by the visibility of the repository containing the discussions using theis qualifier. For more information, seeAbout repositories.

Search by author

Theauthor qualifier finds discussions created by a certain user.

Search by commenter

Thecommenter qualifier finds discussions that contain a comment from a certain user.

Search by user who has answered a discussion

Theanswered-by qualifier finds discussions where a certain user's comment was marked as an answer.

Search by a user that's involved in a discussion

You can use theinvolves qualifier to find discussions that involve a certain user. The qualifier returns discussions that were either created by a certain user, mention the user, or contain comments by the user. Theinvolves qualifier is a logical OR between theauthor,mentions, andcommenter qualifiers for a single user.

Search by number of comments

You can use thecomments qualifier along with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers to search by the number of comments. For more information, seeUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by when a discussion was created or last updated

You can filter discussions based on times of creation, or when the discussion was last updated. For discussion creation, you can use thecreated qualifier; to find out when an discussion was last updated, use theupdated qualifier.

Both qualifiers take a date as a parameter. Date formatting must follow theISO8601 standard, which isYYYY-MM-DD (year-month-day). You can also add optional time informationTHH:MM:SS+00:00 after the date, to search by the hour, minute, and second. That'sT, followed byHH:MM:SS (hour-minutes-seconds), and a UTC offset (+00:00).

When you search for a date, you can use greater than, less than, and range qualifiers to further filter results. For more information, seeUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by category

You can filter discussions by specific discussions categories.

Search by label

You can filter discussions by specific labels that are applied to discussions.

Further reading

• Sorting search results