Ability to filter own archived repos from search

[mP1]

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Sometimes I wish to search all my repos including those archived, but there are many other times when archived repos are noise and should be filtered and not appear in results.

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[cngJo]

another good use case for this could be to search all (unarchived) repositories which have a special dependency, like

org:whatever path:**/*package.json "\"nuxt\"" 

which will show all repositories that depend on nuxt in a specific org and are actively used.

[mohammadrezwankhan]

This is now possible, but the qualifier depends on which search surface you are using.

For repository search, use the documented archived qualifier together with your account scope:

• user:YOUR_LOGIN archived:false — active repositories only
• user:YOUR_LOGIN archived:true — archived repositories only

Use org:YOUR_ORG instead of user: for an organization. GitHub documents both values in Searching for repositories.

For the dependency example in the comment, use Code Search rather than repository search: repository search does not search arbitrary file contents. For example:

org:YOUR_ORG path:package.json nuxt NOT is:archived

path: finds the manifest, org: scopes it, and NOT is:archived excludes archived repositories. The Code Search syntax also supports is:archived when the archived set is what you want; see Understanding GitHub Code Search syntax.

A saved “Active repositories” view or a one-click archived toggle would still be a useful UX improvement, but the two queries above should cover the current workflows.