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How to #search gists
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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 workshops by aws-samples updated recently.
workshop user:aws-samples pushed:>2019-12-01

Full code search:
https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/

Searching:
https://help.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-on-github/searching-for-repositories#search-by-when-a-repository-was-created-or-last-updated

@mals14
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mals14 commented Jun 2, 2020

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.

@Svastikkka
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@santisbon, thanks

@johnquintero
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Thanks!

@coolaj86
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coolaj86 commented Jan 10, 2022 •
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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

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

@daanta-real
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Thank you!

@hochun836
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Thank you.

@jordanmsmith
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Great summary. However, since this seems to be the top search result for "github gist search syntax", here is a correction/update.

As far as I can tell, pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD is not a valid search parameter. Perhaps it was at one point in time.

BROKEN:

pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD

WORKING:

updated:>YYYY-MM-DD
created:>YYYY-MM-DD

Examples searches

workshop pushed:>2019-12-01
workshop updated:>2019-12-01
workshop created:>2019-12-01

Screenshot evidence

(the 3 results using updated are for this gist and 2 similar)
pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD

updated:>YYYY-MM-DD

created:>YYYY-MM-DD

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