Searching for packages

About searching for packages

You can search for packages globally across all of GitHub Enterprise Server, or search for packages within a particular organization. For more information, see About searching on GitHub.

You can only search for packages on GitHub Enterprise Server, not GitHub.com, even if GitHub Connect is enabled.

• This article contains links to example searches on the GitHub.com website, but you can use the same search filters with GitHub Enterprise Server. In the linked example searches, replace github.com with the hostname for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

• For a list of search syntaxes that you can add to any search qualifier to further improve your results, see "Understanding the search syntax".
• Use quotations around multi-word search terms. For example, if you want to search for issues with the label "In progress," you'd search for label:"in progress". Search is not case sensitive.

Searching within a user's or organization's packages

To find packages owned by a certain user or organization, use the user or org qualifier.

Qualifier	Example
user:USERNAME	user:codertocat matches packages owned by @codertocat
org:ORGNAME	org:github matches packages owned by the GitHub organization

Filtering by package visibility

To filter your search by whether a package is public or private, use the is qualifier.

Qualifier	Example
is:public	is:public angular matches public packages that contain the word "angular"
is:private	is:private php matches private packages that contain the word "php"