Search code inside a Github project

To seach within a repository, add the URL parametes /search?q=search_terms at the root of the repo, for example:

https://github.com/bmewburn/vscode-intelephense/search?q=phpstorm

In the above example, it returns 2 results in Code and 160 results in Issues.

UPDATE

The bookmarklet hack below is broken due to XHR issues and API changes.

Thankfully Github now has "A Whole New Code Search" which does the job superbly.

Checkout this voodoo: Github code search userscript.

Follow the directions there, or if you hate bloating your browser with scripts and extensions, use my bookmarkified bundle of the userscript:

javascript:(function(){var s='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skratchdot/github-enhancement-suite/master/build/github-enhancement-suite.user.js',t='text/javascript',d=document,n=navigator,e;(e=d.createElement('script')).src=s;e.type=t;d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(e)})();doIt('');void('');

Save the source above as the URL of a new bookmark. Browse to any Github repo, click the bookmark, and bam: in-page, ajaxified code search.

CAVEAT Github must index a repo before you can search it.

Abracadabra...

Here's a sample search from the annotated ECMAScript 5.1 specification repository:

Go here: https://github.com/search and enter "pattern repo:user_name/repo_name".

For example, to search for cnn_learner in the fastai repo of user fastai, enter this:

cnn_learner repo:fastai/fastai

That's it. The only annoyance is you'll need an extra click. It will tell you:

We couldn’t find any repositories matching 'cnn_learner repo:fastai/fastai'

because by default it searches for repositories matching that search string...

So just click on the left on "Code" and it will display what you want.

Or get the code search results directly with a URL like this:

https://github.com/search?q=cnn_learner+repo%3Afastai%2Ffastai&type=code

There is a really nice project called github1s @ https://github.com/conwnet/github1s.

Basically you change the url of any repo https://github.com/microsoft/vscode to https://github1s.com/microsoft/vscode and then you can use the built in search function in the editor, to search for anything in a repository.

Simply use SourceGraph.com instead to search in GitHub, or install it's extension:

I search the source code inside of Github Repositories with the free Sourcegraph Chrome Extension ... But I Downloaded Chrome First, I knew other browsers support it though, such as - and maybe just only - Firefox.

I skimmed through SourceForge's Chrome Extension Docs and then also I looked at just what I needed for searching for directory names with Github's Search Engine itself, by reading some of Github's Codebase Searching Doc

GitHub documentation says -

octocat in:file matches code where "octocat" appears in the file contents.

Use your search term(s) and in:file in the Search box.

The Search will create a dropdown that asks you where you want to search.