Create a Chrome GitHub Search Shortcut

create-a-chrome-git-hub-search-shortcut.md

Create a Chrome search shortcut for your GitHub

If you only want to search in a specific repository, follow the Instruction-1 that David tweeted Winterbottom. For searching in whole repositories of organiation/user follow the Instruction-2

Instructions-1: search in a specific repository

1. Open Chrome > Settings
2. Search "manage search engines" and click into it
3. Click "Add"

4. Give "search engine" a name. e.g GitHub - Some repo
5. Give "keyword" a shortcut e.g gh
6. Give "URL with %s in place of query" the URL below:

https://github.com/search?q=%s+repo%3A[ORG]%2F[REPO]&type=Code

Replace `[ORG]` with your organisation/username and `[REPO]` with the name of your repository.

e.g for Django:

https://github.com/search?q=%s+repo%3Adjango%2Fdjango&type=Code

7. Click "Add".

8. Search! e.g Type "gh NameOfComponent" in your address bar.

Instructions-2: search in all repository of your organization/user

follow the instruction below and use the following URL in step 6.

6. Give "URL with %s in place of query" the URL below:

https://github.com/search?type=code&q=org%3A[ORG]+%s

Replace `[ORG]` with your organisation/username with the name of your organization/user.

e.g for Django:

https://github.com/search?type=code&q=org%3Adjango+%s

7. Click "Add".

8. Search! e.g Type "g NameOfComponent" in your address bar.