How to search gists.

Search my gists.md

Enter this in the search box along with your search terms:

Get all gists from the user santisbon.
user:santisbon

Find all gists with a .yml extension.
extension:yml

Find all gists with HTML files.
language:html

Find all gists with a ".bash_profile" file.
filename:.bash_profile

Excludes all results containing your search term.
NOT

Find gists with greater than 100 stars.
stars:>100

Include anonymous gists in your search.
anon:true

Search all forked gists for results.
fork:only

Find gists containing a file larger than 1000kbs.
size:>1000

Find all gists with the word "fetch" by santisbon updated or created recently.
fetch user:santisbon updated:>2019-01-01
fetch user:santisbon created:>2019-01-01

All the gists you have forked or starred are available from your gist profile page e.g.
https://gist.github.com/santisbon/forked
https://gist.github.com/santisbon/starred

Full code search
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@santisbon, thanks. This is very helpful.

Great guide. Just what I was looking for.

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you for sharing this information!

thank you

Very Helpful. Thank you

Thnx!

thanks for pulling this together! do you know if it is possible to search the gists that you have starred? just like one can search forked gists.

@santisbon, thanks

Thanks!

Do you know if it is possible to search the gists that you have starred?

Searching for this myself. I don't know what use it is to "Star" something if we can't go back and find the thing we starred. I thought that was the whole point...

Update: Found it:

https://gist.github.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/starred

Ex: https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/starred

Why don't they make it easier to search your own gists?

Thank you!

Thank you.

just noting this here in case i forget it:

you can also specify a specific time and offset as well:

created:>2024-05-10T01:23:02+00:00

Want to add a few helpful bits:

• Link to Github's list of search qualifiers: https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-gists
• Search for your own gists: user:@me
• Example for how to use one of these qualifiers:
  • After the qualifier: user:@me your query
  • Before the qualifier: your query user:@me

I have not found a way to get multiple qualifiers to work, hopefully you won't need that.