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Searching gists

You can search for gists globally across .com.

QualifierExample
>ncat stars:>100 finds gists with the word "cat" that have more than 100 stars.
user:USERNAMEuser:octocat gets all gists created by @octocat.
anon:truecat anon:true includes anonymous gists in your search for cat-related gists.
NOTNOT cat excludes all results containing cat.
fork:onlycat fork:only matches all fork repositories containing the word "cat."

Gist search looks through the file contents by default. You can also filter the results based on the content.

QualifierExample
filename:FILENAMEfilename:.bashrc finds all gists with a ".bashrc" file.
language:LANGUAGEcat language:html finds all gists with the word "cat" with a HTML file.
extension:EXTENSIONjoin extension:coffee finds all instances of "join" in gists with a coffee extension.
size:>nsystem size:>1000 finds all instances of "system" in gists containing a file larger than 1 MB.