grephub

grephub

Search GitHub repositories with regexes. GrepHub is like git grep, but for every repository on GitHub.

Just replace "github.com" in a repository's URL with "grephub.hmarr.dev", and you're all set.

For instance, to search lodash, go to https://grephub.hmarr.dev/lodash/lodash.

Caveats

• This is an experiment that may be shut off at any minute
• It doesn't use an index so it's kind of slow and it won't work well with large repositories
• Streaming the whole repository from GitHub for each query is a terrible idea for a variety of reasons

Similar projects

The following projects all make it really fast to search specific set of repositories. They index the code in the repositories so your queries will be lightning-fast, but the downside is you need to know which repositories you want to search before searching them.

• Hound
• Zoekt
• Livegrep

Running locally

To run the frontend:

$ npm install
$ npm start

To run the backend function, make sure you have the Go toolchain installed, then run:

$ make build-functions
$ functions/search