Search code inside a Github project

Question

Is there a way to grep for something inside a Github project's code?

I could pull the source and grep it locally, but I was wondering if it's possible through the web interface or a 3rd-party alternative.

Ideas?

Answer 1

You have the advanced search GitHub form with include the repo: directive to limit the search to a code repository.

Code Search

The Code search will look through all of the code publicly hosted on GitHub. You can also filter by :

• the language language:
• the repository name (including the username) repo:
• the file path path:

Answer 2

For any sort of code searching, I would highly recommend Google Code Search http://www.google.com/codesearch. You can search github projects through google code search by specifying it in the package flag of the query. e.g. package:github.com/nabeelmukhtar/github-java-sdk.git GitHubService

You can search code by using regular expressions. They even have an API for it.