Search for code or text in GitLab

Question

Is it possible to search for code or text in GitLab inside of files? I can search for files, issues, milestones, etc., but could not find a way to search for code in source files or text in the documentation i.e .doc files.

Answer 1

It was announced in 5.2:

https://about.gitlab.com/2013/05/22/gitlab-5-dot-2-released/

And I can confirm code search is working with 8.4

Answer 2

Alternatively you can use the python-gitlab library to search text in the projects that you need:

import gitlab   def search(gitlab_server, token, file_filter, text, group=None, project_filter=None):     return_value = []     gl = gitlab.Gitlab(gitlab_server, private_token=token)     if (project_filter == '') and (group == ''):         projects = gl.projects.list(all=True)     else:         group_object = gl.groups.get(group)         group_projects = group_object.projects.list(search=project_filter)         projects = []         for group_project in group_projects:             projects.append(gl.projects.get(group_project.id))     for project in projects:         files = []         try:             files = project.repository_tree(recursive=True, all=True)         except Exception as e:             print(str(e), "Error getting tree in project:", project.name)         for file in files:             if file_filter == file['name']:                 file_content = project.files.raw(file_path=file['path'], ref='master')                 if text in str(file_content):                     return_value.append({                         "project": project.name,                         "file": file['path']                     })     return return_value 

Complete example can be found here: gitlab-search