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
