Code search does not return results for exact string matches that exist in the repo being searched

[jakeonrails]

I searched a private repo on Github, and got 0 results for code. In Visual Studio Code however, I searched the exact same string and got 28 results in 8 files. This so common that Github search is basically useless to me

This issue is a similar one: #18624

[look]

Are you using the Code Search Technology Preview?

[smellai]

I wrote a node script to search for NPM packages installed in my org repositories, I'm doing this using GitHub code search through octokit:

GET /search/code

with

q: `"${pkgName}" in:file org:${org} filename:package.json`

If the pkgName has a scope with a hyphen character in it, the search returns zero results. If the hyphen character is not in the scope prefix, but in the package name itself, the search works fine. You can see this behaviour happening using the GitHub search through GitHub interface too:

search for "typescript-eslint/parser" in mui org : zero results. But you can see that this material-ui file contains the string.

search for "@types/format-util" in mui org: 5 results.

Why is that? I requested access to the cs preview, but I guess there's no way to access its feature through octokit or APIs, right?

[look]

@smellai the old code search does not index hyphens, which is why your search does not work. The new code search does index all characters, so it can do exact match searches, but doesn't have an API yet, sorry. It's on our roadmap.

[mennowitteveen]

I observed similar. I did the following search:

https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/search?q=numpy

There are many "numpy" strings in the scikit-learn repo.

[look]

Sorry about that. Please try the new search: https://github.com/features/code-search