Searching or Querying through GitHub Repositories and its file content

[nikslearn]

I am looking for mechanism or feature where we can search through GitHub repositories and its file content. Any pointers in that direction will be helpful.

[mislav]

Right now we don't have a dedicated search command, but you can query the GitHub API through the api command to get what you want:

$ gh api -X GET search/code -f q='TODO repo:cli/cli' -F per_page=100 | jq -r '.items[].html_url'

This finds files with the word "TODO" in the cli/cli repository and prints their web URLs. You will need to install the jq command to do JSON filtering, or pass the output of gh api to a script that parses JSON. See the API documentation here

[nikslearn]

Thanks ! I am trying to search through enterprise github and when run the command it says command not found.
repo:cli/cli represents Org1/Repo1 ?

i was trying like

$ gh api -X GET search/code -f q='TODO repo:Org1/Repo1' -F per_page=100 | jq -r '.items[].html_url'

[mislav]

When querying Enterprise hosts, you must specify which one do you want to query, otherwise gh makes requests against github.com. From gh help api:

--hostname string         The GitHub hostname for the request (default "github.com")

So, gh api --hostname example.org -X GET ...

Alternatively, you may set the GH_HOST environment variable.