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Searching discussions |
You can search for discussions on {% data variables.product.product_name %} and narrow the results using search qualifiers. |
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You can search for discussions globally across all of {% data variables.product.product_name %}, or search for discussions within a particular organization or repository. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."
{% data reusables.search.syntax_tips %}
With the in qualifier you can restrict your search for discussions to the title, body, or comments. You can also combine qualifiers to search a combination of title, body, or comments. When you omit the in qualifier, {% data variables.product.product_name %} searches the title, body, and comments.
| Qualifier | Example |
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in:title |
welcome in:title matches discussions with "welcome" in the title. |
in:body |
onboard in:title,body matches discussions with "onboard" in the title or body. |
in:comments |
thanks in:comments matches discussions with "thanks" in the comments for the discussion. |
To search discussions in all repositories owned by a certain user or organization, you can use the user or org qualifier. To search discussions in a specific repository, you can use the repo qualifier.
| Qualifier | Example |
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user:USERNAME |
user:octocat feedback matches discussions with the word "feedback" from repositories owned by @octocat. |
org:ORGNAME |
org:github matches discussions in repositories owned by the GitHub organization. |
repo:USERNAME/REPOSITORY |
repo:nodejs/node created:<2021-01-01 matches discussions from @nodejs' Node.js runtime project that were created before January 2021. |
You can filter by the visibility of the repository containing the discussions using the is qualifier. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."
| Qualifier | Example
| :- | :- |{% ifversion fpt or ghes or ghec %}
| is:public | is:public matches discussions in public repositories.{% endif %}{% ifversion ghec %}
| is:internal | is:internal matches discussions in internal repositories.{% endif %}
| is:private | is:private tiramisu matches discussions that contain the word "tiramisu" in private repositories you can access.
The author qualifier finds discussions created by a certain user.
| Qualifier | Example |
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author:USERNAME |
cool author:octocat matches discussions with the word "cool" that were created by @octocat. |
| bootstrap in:body author:octocat matches discussions created by @octocat that contain the word "bootstrap" in the body. |
The commenter qualifier finds discussions that contain a comment from a certain user.
| Qualifier | Example |
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commenter:USERNAME |
github commenter:becca org:github matches discussions in repositories owned by GitHub, that contain the word "github," and have a comment by @becca. |
The answered-by qualifier finds discussions where a certain user's comment was marked as an answer.
| Qualifier | Example |
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answered-by:USERNAME |
cool answered-by:octocat matches discussions with the word "cool" that were answered by @octocat. |
You can use the involves qualifier to find discussions that involve a certain user. The qualifier returns discussions that were either created by a certain user, mention the user, or contain comments by the user. The involves qualifier is a logical OR between the author, mentions, and commenter qualifiers for a single user.
| Qualifier | Example |
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involves:USERNAME |
involves:becca involves:octocat matches discussions either @becca or @octocat are involved in. |
| NOT beta in:body involves:becca matches discussions @becca is involved in that do not contain the word "beta" in the body. |
You can use the comments qualifier along with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers to search by the number of comments. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."
| Qualifier | Example |
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comments:n |
comments:>100 matches discussions with more than 100 comments. |
| comments:500..1000 matches discussions with comments ranging from 500 to 1,000. |
You can filter discussions based on times of creation, or when the discussion was last updated. For discussion creation, you can use the created qualifier; to find out when an discussion was last updated, use the updated qualifier.
Both qualifiers take a date as a parameter. {% data reusables.time_date.date_format %} {% data reusables.time_date.time_format %}
{% data reusables.search.date_gt_lt %}
| Qualifier | Example |
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created:YYYY-MM-DD |
created:>2020-11-15 matches discussions that were created after November 15, 2020. |
updated:YYYY-MM-DD |
weird in:body updated:>=2020-02-01 matches discussions with the word "weird" in the body that were updated after December 2020. |