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I remember back in the there was code.google.com (or something like that) which allowed searching over repositories. I was assigned to creating firefox addon in

I remember back in the there was code.google.com (or something like that) which allowed searching over repositories. I was assigned to creating firefox addon including native part with C++ and it was kind of daunting task, there were little documentation. This tool was indispensable for me, it allowed to quickly look at any API usage. I wouldn't be able to complete that project without it. Since Google closed this project, I never used anything similar, but I think that I should be. I tried few times to use ordinary Github search, but it wasn't good enough to be useful. Hopefully this project will change it. Done properly it would be a very powerful tool. What's not clear to me is whether that tool searches only on Github or on all repositories in the Internet? Hopefully it's the latter.

ugjka 4y ago
Probably former
- deadcoder0904 4y ago
  for the latter, use https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com
robertlacok 4y ago
Do you know https://grep.app https://grep.app? :)
- obviyus 4y ago
  This is one of my most used tools. Love using it!
- thejosh 4y ago
  Awesome! I sometimes search across very niche projects on Github, where their codesearch doesn't show the results I want. I KNOW that the result exists, and can see it in the repository, but their codesearch doesn't show the results I want.
- iandanforth 4y ago
  So I can get a better sense of how to use this tool, if I wanted to see examples of say a 'Users' collection API from multiple Django projects, how would I do so? Looks like I can do keyword matches and language specific filtering but would love tips beyond that!
Morgawr 4y ago
We still use that tool internally at Google, and we do have some of our open source projects browsable like: https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src
- arccy 4y ago
  https://cs.opensource.google/ https://cs.opensource.google/ for more Google related projects

ugjka 4y ago

Probably former

deadcoder0904 4y ago
for the latter, use https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com

robertlacok 4y ago

Do you know https://grep.app https://grep.app? :)

obviyus 4y ago
This is one of my most used tools. Love using it!
thejosh 4y ago
Awesome! I sometimes search across very niche projects on Github, where their codesearch doesn't show the results I want. I KNOW that the result exists, and can see it in the repository, but their codesearch doesn't show the results I want.
iandanforth 4y ago
So I can get a better sense of how to use this tool, if I wanted to see examples of say a 'Users' collection API from multiple Django projects, how would I do so? Looks like I can do keyword matches and language specific filtering but would love tips beyond that!

Morgawr 4y ago

We still use that tool internally at Google, and we do have some of our open source projects browsable like: https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/chromiumos/codesearch https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src

arccy 4y ago
https://cs.opensource.google/ https://cs.opensource.google/ for more Google related projects