A Whole New Code Search • Hacker News Board

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by MattRogish » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s...

https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by stroebjo » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

Facebook Graph Search, now GutHub Search, whats next?

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by ConstantineXVI » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

dmit wrote: post #45

oelmekki wrote: post #35

Oh my. And suddenly, github gave grep to the web. Thanks for that great work.

Or rather, fgrep. But it's still a welcome feature, and there's https://code.google.com/p/codesearch/ for locally available code.

`git grep` within repos as well

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by donretag » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

MattRogish wrote: post #51

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s... https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

Or variations of AWS Secret https://github.com/search?q=aws+secret&type=Code&ref...

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by libria » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 8:56 PM UTC

MattRogish wrote: post #51

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s... https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

A hacker-with-a-heart-of-gold will write a script to harvest these emails and send them a warning message with a link to this thread.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by tlrobinson » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

ori_b wrote: post #43

This just reminds me of Google code search and makes me miss it more. Searching by regex was pretty useful.

I was hoping for regex support, but I guess it's pretty tough without Google-like scale.

Here's an interesting article describing how it worked: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by driverdan » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 9:17 PM UTC

MattRogish wrote: post #51

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s... https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

Out of the ones I tried fb_secret seemed to have the most real results.

https://github.com/search?q=fb_secret&type=Code&ref=...

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by fidz » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 9:27 PM UTC

I wonder how they combine the database and the repository/git data raw

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by systematical » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 9:28 PM UTC

A lot of potential for recruiter spam if someone just takes an hour or two to write a tool.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by zem » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 9:34 PM UTC

ushi wrote: post #39

zem wrote: post #19

very nice. one bad setting (perhaps a default that never got overridden) is that searching for foo_bar searches for foo and bar separately, rather than treating foo_bar as an indivisible token.

Just search for '"foo_bar"' rather than 'foo_bar'.

i know, but in the context of code search foo_bar is almost always a single token, since the underscore is nigh-universally used in variable and function names.