Searching on GitHub

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GitHub repos in general are a great resource for developers, especially those repos with thousands of stars! ⭐

That's why posts about amazing GitHub repos are among the most popular blog posts. In fact, I wrote one myself! 😉

Finding the most popular GitHub repos is no rocket science 🚀

Everybody can use the GitHub search and this post will help you understanding the search syntax on GitHub.

We will start in the upper left corner on GitHub, where the search bar is located.

Searching for repos with more than 100k stars

stars:>=100000

This query will show you all repositories having more than or equal to 100k stars ⭐

GitHub search syntax

Here's a list of useful query operators

operator	meaning	example
`>n`	more than	`books stars:100` will search for repositories with the word `books` that have more than 100 stars
`a..b`	range between `a` and `b`	`kitties stars:500..10000`> will search for repositories with the word `kitties` that have more than 500 but less than 10000 stars

These are the most suitable operators for finding the most starred GitHub repositories! 🐱

With that knowledge everybody can dig deeper into GitHub as they like. 🌈

Additionally, I highly recommend checking out what's trending on GitHub to see what the community is most excited about today!

P.S. I have switched the domain name of my blog to chrisko.io, recently. Feel free to check it out, if you like to find some more posts about my journey ❤️