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Searching topics You can search for topics associated with repositories on {% data variables.product.product_name %}.
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Search {% data variables.product.product_name %} for topics

You can search for topics on {% data variables.product.product_name %}, explore related topics, and see how many repositories are associated with a certain topic.

  1. Navigate to https://github.com/search.
  2. Type a topic keyword. search field
  3. In the left sidebar, to narrow your search to topics, click Topics. {% if currentVersion == "free-pro-team@latest" %} Jekyll repository search results page with topics side-menu option highlighted{% else %} Jekyll repository search results page on dotcom with topics side-menu option highlighted{% endif %}

Narrowing your search with search qualifiers

If you want to explore repositories about a certain topic, find projects to contribute to, or learn which topics are most popular on {% data variables.product.product_name %}, you can search topics with the search qualifiers is:featured, is:curated, repositories:n and created:YYYY-MM-DD.

The is:featured search qualifier will narrow search results to the topics with the most repositories on {% data variables.product.product_name %}. These topics are also featured at https://github.com/topics/.

The is:curated search qualifier will narrow search results to topics that community members have added extra information to. For more information, see the explore repository at https://github.com/github/explore.

You can filter topics based when they were created using the date parameter and created: or based on how many repositories are associated with this topic using repositories:n. Both of these qualifiers can use the greater than and less than range qualifiers.

{% data reusables.time_date.date_format %} {% data reusables.time_date.time_format %}

{% data reusables.search.date_gt_lt %}

Qualifier Example
is:curated is:curated javascript matches topics that are curated and contain the word "javascript."
is:featured is:featured javascript matches topics that are featured on https://github.com/topics/ and contain the word "javascript."
is:not-curated is:not-curated javascript matches topics that don't have extra information, such as a description or logo, and contain the word "javascript."
is:not-featured is:not-featured javascript matches topics that aren't featured on https://github.com/topics/ and contain the word "javascript."
repositories:n repositories:>5000 matches topics that have more than 5000 repositories.
created:YYYY-MM-DD Serverless created:>2019-01-01 matches topics with the word "serverless" that were created after 2018.

Search repositories by topic

You can use the topic: qualifier to find every repository connected to a particular topic. For more information, see "Searching for repositories."

Further reading