Find a Repository

In addition to searching by name there are various modifiers you can use to refine your search:

• [-]lang:string

  Require (or exclude) the specified programming language

• [-]topic:string

  Require (or exclude) the repositories to be tagged with the specified topic

• license:string

  Filter repositories by a specific license (supported licenses listed below)

• stars:number

  Filter by number of Github stars

• watchers:number

  Filter by number of Github watchers

• openissues:number

  Filter by number of open Github issues

• created:date

  Filter by the date the repository was first created on Github

• lastcommit:date

  Filter by the the last commit date to the default branch

• english:boolean

  Filter repositories to only show ones where the description suggests the primary language is English (the logic for finding English repositories is... not very smart)

• active:boolean

  Only show repositories that have had at least 1 commit to the default branch in the last 12 months

• nameonly:boolean

  By default we search for keywords in both the repository name and owner name, set this to true to just search repository names

• order:string

  Order the results by a given field, this can be one of: stars, stars_asc, watchers, watchers_asc, forks, forks_asc, lastcommit, created

Date and number properties both support range filters: i.e:

• stars:>100
• stars:<=1000
• stars:50..100
• created:>2022
• created:2023-01..2023-02

Available licenses to search for:

• 0bsd
• afl-3.0
• agpl-3.0
• apache-2.0
• artistic-2.0
• bsd-2-clause
• bsd-3-clause
• bsd-3-clause-clear
• bsd-4-clause
• bsl-1.0
• cc-by-4.0
• cc-by-sa-4.0
• cc0-1.0
• cecill-2.1
• cern-ohl-p-2.0
• cern-ohl-s-2.0
• cern-ohl-w-2.0
• ecl-2.0
• epl-1.0
• epl-2.0
• eupl-1.1
• eupl-1.2
• gfdl-1.3
• gpl-2.0
• gpl-3.0
• isc
• lgpl-2.1
• lgpl-3.0
• lppl-1.3c
• mit
• mit-0
• mpl-2.0
• ms-pl
• ms-rl
• mulanpsl-2.0
• ncsa
• odbl-1.0
• ofl-1.1
• osl-3.0
• other
• postgresql
• unlicense
• upl-1.0
• vim
• wtfpl
• zlib

• Repositories that contain react in the project title, have at least 100 stars and are mit licensed, sorted by last commit date react license:mit stars:>=100 order:lastcommit
• Repositories that have had a commit to the primary branch in 2023 and are tagged with the chatgpt topic, sorted by stars lastcommit:>=2023 topic:chatgpt order:stars
• Repositories that were created in January or February 2017 and have at least 250 watchers, order by the date created (newest first) created:2017-01..2017-02 watchers:>=250 order:created
• Repositories that were created in 2018, have had a commit within the last 12 months, are written primarily in javascript but don't have the react topic created:2018 active:true lang:javascript -topic:react
• Repositories that have greater than 10,000 stars but haven't had a commit within the last 12 months stars:>10000 active:false
• Repositories that contain facebook in just the repository name, not the user name facebook nameonly:true