grep.app

Tool Overview

grep.app is a blazingly fast code search engine that allows you to effortlessly search through an extensive collection of over half a million public GitHub repositories. It provides a simple and intuitive interface to find code snippets, files, and paths across a vast codebase.

Key Features

• Lightning-fast code search across a massive corpus of open-source projects
• Ability to search by file name, path, code content, and programming language
• Regular expression support for advanced search queries
• Syntax highlighting and code rendering for better readability

Use Cases

• Discovering code examples and implementations for specific problems
• Finding libraries, modules, or functions that match certain criteria
• Exploring open-source projects and codebases for learning or research purposes
• Identifying software vulnerabilities or potential bugs within public repositories

Usage Tips

• Use double quotes for exact phrase matching
• Prefix search terms with "lang:" to filter by programming language
• Add "case:yes" or "case:no" to enable or disable case sensitivity
• Combine multiple search terms with AND, OR, and NOT operators

Limitations

• Limited to searching public GitHub repositories (no private repositories)
• No support for full-text search within files (only filenames and paths)
• Search results may not always be up-to-date with the latest repository commits