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This version of GitHub Enterprise was discontinued on 2022-10-12. No patch releases will be made, even for critical security issues. For better performance, improved security, and new features, upgrade to the latest version of GitHub Enterprise. For help with the upgrade, contact GitHub Enterprise support.

Searching for packages

In this article

You can search for packages on GitHub Enterprise Server and narrow the results using search qualifiers.

Who can use this feature

Anyone can search for packages they have access to.

GitHub Packages is available with GitHub Free, GitHub Pro, GitHub Free for organizations, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 or higher, and GitHub AE. For more information about upgrading your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, see "About upgrades to new releases" and refer to the Upgrade assistant to find the upgrade path from your current release version.

About searching for packages

You can search for packages globally across all of GitHub Enterprise Server, or search for packages within a particular organization. For more information, see "About searching on GitHub."

You can only search for packages on GitHub Enterprise Server, not GitHub.com, even if GitHub Connect is enabled.

Tips:

  • This article contains links to example searches on the GitHub.com website, but you can use the same search filters with GitHub Enterprise Server. In the linked example searches, replace github.com with the hostname for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
  • For a list of search syntaxes that you can add to any search qualifier to further improve your results, see "Understanding the search syntax".
  • Use quotations around multi-word search terms. For example, if you want to search for issues with the label "In progress," you'd search for label:"in progress". Search is not case sensitive.

Searching within a user's or organization's packages

To find packages owned by a certain user or organization, use the user or org qualifier.

QualifierExample
user:USERNAMEuser:codertocat matches packages owned by @codertocat
org:ORGNAMEorg:github matches packages owned by the GitHub organization

Filtering by package visibility

To filter your search by whether a package is public or private, use the is qualifier.

QualifierExample
is:publicis:public angular matches public packages that contain the word "angular"
is:privateis:private php matches private packages that contain the word "php"