Search Github repos by filename and its file content

Asked Feb 22 '21 at 05:23

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For example, I want to know how to implement a project that uses Django and Stripe. So I want Github repos that uses these dependencies. I can think of two example ways to know that in this case:

repositories that **/urls.py contains views.stripe_webhook AND **/views.py contains from django (no requirements.txt approach)
repositories that requirements.txt contains Django and stripe (requirements.txt approach)

Either way, it need to search text content in files in repositories.

So here, how can I do something like this, using Github API, Github advanced search, or Github Graphql (, or something else)?

asked Feb 22 '21 at 05:23

ー PupSoZeyDe ー

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just download the `requirements.txt` and look for django/stripe? – dan1st Feb 22 '21 at 06:33
@dan1st that's not a fundamental solution. To do that, I need to crawl/scraping Github, it's inefficient and probably against to the ToS. – ー PupSoZeyDe ー Feb 22 '21 at 06:39
Just download `https://raw.githubusercontent.com///master/requirements.txt`. You wouldn't need to do any scraping. – dan1st Feb 22 '21 at 06:42
I mean, I wanted to search the entire Github, but not specific repositories, like you can from the search bar or search API. – ー PupSoZeyDe ー Feb 22 '21 at 06:57
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You might be able to use the dependency graph (especially dependents) like [here](https://stackoverflow.com/q/58734176/10871900). – dan1st Feb 22 '21 at 08:53
Also, [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45382069/search-for-code-in-github-using-graphql-v4-api?rq=1) could help you. – dan1st Feb 22 '21 at 08:59
thanks, I'll take a look. – ー PupSoZeyDe ー Feb 22 '21 at 13:16

Search Github repos by filename and its file content

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