Searching gists

Search gists

You can search for gists globally across all of GitHub.

Qualifier	Example
>n	cat stars:>100 finds gists with the word "cat" that have more than 100 stars.
user:USERNAME	user:octocat gets all gists created by @octocat.
anon:true	cat anon:true includes anonymous gists in your search for cat-related gists.
NOT	NOT cat excludes all results containing cat.
fork:only	cat fork:only matches all fork repositories containing the word "cat."

Filter content

Gist search looks through the file contents by default. You can also filter the results based on the content.

Qualifier	Example
filename:FILENAME	filename:.bashrc finds all gists with a ".bashrc" file.
language:LANGUAGE	cat language:html finds all gists with the word "cat" with a HTML file.
extension:EXTENSION	join extension:coffee finds all instances of "join" in gists with a coffee extension.
size:>n	system size:>1000 finds all instances of "system" in gists containing a file larger than 1 MB.