Searching gists

You can search for gists on GitHub and narrow the results using search qualifiers.

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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.