Welcome to Week 1: Advanced GitHub Search Techniques 🔍

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Hey, community, welcome to the first week of our campaign focused on discovering exemplary GitHub repositories! To kick things off, we're diving into advanced GitHub search techniques. Mastering GitHub’s powerful built-in search capabilities will empower you to find exactly what you're looking for efficiently among millions of repositories.

GitHub search operators are special keywords that refine your search results. For instance, you can filter repositories by programming language, popularity (stars), number of contributors, and recency of updates.

This discussion space is here for you to ask questions, practice advanced searches, and share your own search strategies and discoveries!

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Examples of useful search operators:

• Language Filter:

  language:<language-name>
  

• Stars Filter (Popularity):

  stars:>X
  

• Number of Contributors:

  forks:>X
  

• Recency of Updates:

  pushed:>YYYY-MM-DD
  

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Resources 📚

We've compiled some essential materials to help you get started with advanced GitHub search techniques:

Official Documentation:

• Searching GitHub: Official GitHub docs on search syntax and examples.
• Understanding GitHub Search Operators: A detailed breakdown of operators that refine repository searches.

Further Reading:

• GitHub Search Tips : Useful tips on leveraging GitHub search effectively and to level up your repository discovery skills.

Videos:

• Improving GitHub code search: Quick video demonstrating advanced GitHub search strategies.
• GitHub Search Operators in Minutes!: Practical tutorial on using GitHub’s powerful search.
• How to easily find beginner-friendly issues on an open source project
• Using GitHub code search with NVDA: How to use GitHub code search with a free, open-source screen reader for Windows.

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Next: Test Your Knowledge ⚡️

Let's test your skills with some practical search questions! Try answering these questions on your own first, and we’ll share the answers in the comments on Friday 🧠.

Questions for Week 1

1. Write a search to discover machine language repositories written in Python
2. Write a search to find repositories with more than 10,000 stars
3. Write a search to find repositories with a lot of contributors and community engagement(more than 1000 forks)
4. Write a search to find repositories updated since January 2025:
5. Combine these operators into a single powerful query. Search for actively maintained JavaScript projects with high popularity (over 5000 stars) and recent updates (January 2025)

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Bonus Activity 🌟

Explore the GitHub Trending page to familiarize yourself with currently popular repositories. Try filtering by your favorite language or time range, and share an interesting repository you discover in the comments!

Use the discussion space below to ask questions, post additional resources, or share your own search tips and findings. Let's help each other become GitHub search pros! 🚀