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Is there any possibility to search github repos for strings containing a special characters (e.g. "example.com" or "Example: ").
As far as I know Github's search does not support it and Google ignores this as well.
Thanks in advance.
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GitHub Codesearch can be found at github.com/codesearch and will let you type in anything you're looking for in source code and get highlighted results of any files in our public repositories that match. You will also get a sidebar with the facet counts of language breakdown of the results and repository breakdowns.
state the specific string you're looking for using the "intext:" search operator. add the programming language you're interested in, using the "ext:" operator (i.e. "ext:py", "ext:R", "ext:rb", etc.) search in all public repos in Github using the "site:" operator mrgloom mentioned.
To escape a character, simply add a backslash ( \ ) before it. As you can see, the double quotes with the backslash are shown, but the ones without it are used as string delimiters.
Github has its own search syntax with qualifiers you can add, but not full regex.
The GitHub Help says :
You can't use the following wildcard characters as part of your search query: . , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) { } [ ]. The search will simply ignore these symbols.
Alternatively, you can git clone some repositories and grep them.
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