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

To include forks in the search results, you will need to addfork:true orfork:only to your query. For more information, seeSearching in forks.

Search by repository name, description, or contents of the README file

With thein qualifier you can restrict your search to the repository name, repository description, repository topics, contents of the README file, or any combination of these. When you omit this qualifier, only the repository name, description, and topics are searched.

Search based on the contents of a repository

You can find a repository by searching for content in the repository's README file using thein:readme qualifier. For more information, seeAbout the repository README file.

Besides usingin:readme, it's not possible to find repositories by searching for specific content within the repository. To search for a specific file or content within a repository, you can use the file finder or code-specific search qualifiers. For more information, seeFinding files on GitHub andUnderstanding GitHub Code Search syntax.

Search within a user's or organization's repositories

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

Search by repository size

Thesize qualifier finds repositories that match a certain size (in kilobytes), using greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. For more information, seeUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by number of followers

You can filter repositories based on the number of users who follow the repositories, using thefollowers qualifier with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. For more information, seeUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by number of forks

Theforks qualifier specifies the number of forks a repository should have, using greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. For more information, seeUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by number of stars

You can search repositories based on the number of stars the repositories have, using greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. For more information, seeSaving repositories with stars andUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by when a repository was created or last updated

You can filter repositories based on time of creation or time of last update. For repository creation, you can use thecreated qualifier; to find out when a repository was last updated, you'll want to use thepushed qualifier. Thepushed qualifier will return a list of repositories, sorted by the most recent commit made on any branch in the repository.

Both 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 language

You can search repositories based on the language of the code in the repositories.

Search by topic

You can find all of the repositories that are classified with a particular topic. For more information, seeClassifying your repository with topics.

Search by number of topics

You can search repositories by the number of topics that have been applied to the repositories, using thetopics qualifier along with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. For more information, seeClassifying your repository with topics andUnderstanding the search syntax.

Search by license

You can search repositories by the type of license in the repositories. You must use a license keyword to filter repositories by a particular license or license family. For more information, seeLicensing a repository.

Search by repository visibility

You can filter your search based on the visibility of the repositories. For more information, seeAbout repositories.

Search based on repository custom property

You can filter repositories based on custom properties using theprops. prefixed qualifiers. For more information, seeManaging custom properties for repositories in your organization.

For these qualifiers to work, the search must be limited to a single organization. Otherwise,props. qualifiers are ignored.

Search based on whether a repository is a mirror

You can search repositories based on whether the repositories are mirrors and hosted elsewhere. For more information, seeFinding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub.

Search based on whether a repository is a template

You can search repositories based on whether the repositories are templates. For more information, seeCreating a template repository.

Search based on whether a repository is archived

You can search repositories based on whether or not the repositories are archived. For more information, seeArchiving repositories.

Search based on number of issues withgood first issue orhelp wanted labels

You can search for repositories that have a minimum number of issues labeledhelp-wanted orgood-first-issue with the qualifiershelp-wanted-issues:>n andgood-first-issues:>n. For more information, seeEncouraging helpful contributions to your project with labels.

Search based on ability to sponsor

You can search for repositories whose owners can be sponsored on GitHub Sponsors with theis:sponsorable qualifier. For more information, seeAbout GitHub Sponsors.

You can search for repositories that have a funding file using thehas:funding-file qualifier. For more information, seeDisplaying a sponsor button in your repository.

Further reading

• Sorting search results
• Searching in forks