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Find code in GitHub using Grep

Grep is a tool that has been built by the team over at Vercel (thanks for the free hosting) and is designed to let you find code snippets in public GitHub repositories FAST.

Grep is a tool that has been built by the team over at Vercel (thanks for the free hosting) and is designed to let you find code snippets in public GitHub repositories FAST.

https://grep.app/

Usage

Aside from finding what you're looking for, you might also want insight into how code is used across public projects.

  1. Checking the usage of a dependency — copy and paste the dependency from your project and see how other developers are using it
  2. Finding security holes — as an ethical hacker, you might look for public repositories that are oversharing API keys and give their maintainers a nudge

The UI allows you to filter by

  • Repository
  • Path
  • Language

The search itself supports regular expressions, case matching, and whole-word matching.

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