Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThis is awesome! @danfox, sent you an email though commenting here too. I'm the CTO @ GitHub. Would love to talk to you about this and other things we are building in this area at GitHub. Feel free to email direct to jason at github.com
Please don't check your keys or passwords into github. This was my first search to show AWS API Keys. [1] and my second to show google API keys. [2] Unfortunately, there are many more of these types of searches - and far too many results. [1] https://grep.app/search?q=AKIA%5B0-9A-Z%5D%7B16%7D®exp=tr... [2] https://grep.app/search?q=AIza%5B0-9A-Za-z%5C%5C-_%5D%7B35%7...
The title does not give this enough credit. I was incredibly impressed by its speed(I'm used to Hound[1] at work) it felt almost instant. [1]: https://github.com/hound-search/hound
Why 'Grep' when such a tool with this name already exists since... 1973? Or even before if we're counting `g/re/p`.
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- Breakout years
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- Total points
- 872
- Total comments
- 197
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-23 | Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressionsFirst breakout · Best thread | danfox | 614 | 155 |
| 2021-09-05 | Grep.app: search across a half million Git repos | danskeren | 54 | 6 |
| 2023-02-07 | Grep.app – Search across a half million Git reposLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 189 | 30 |
| 2024-05-28 | Grep.app – Search across a half million Git repos | 882542F3884314B | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-11-21 | Code Search – Grep by VercelHall induction | djoldman | 11 | 6 |
| 2025-01-18 | Grep: Search code, files, and paths across all of GitHub | gk1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-04-16 | Code Search – Grep by Vercel | absqueued | 1 | 0 |