Searching users

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.

Search only users or organizations

By default, searching users will return both personal and organizations. However, you can use the type qualifier to restrict search results to personal accounts or organizations only.

Qualifier	Example
`type:user`	mike in:name created:<2011-01-01 type:user matches personal accounts named "mike" that were created before 2011.
`type:org`	data in:email type:org matches organizations with the word "data" in their email.

Search by account name, full name, or public email

You can filter your search to the personal user or organization account name with user or org qualifiers.

With the in qualifier you can restrict your search to the username (login), full name, public email, or any combination of these. When you omit this qualifier, only the username and email address are searched. For privacy reasons, you cannot search by email domain name.

Qualifier	Example
`user:name`	user:octocat matches the user with the username "octocat".
`org:name`	org:electron type:users matches the Electron organization's account name.
`in:login`	kenya in:login matches users with the word "kenya" in their username.
`in:name`	bolton in:name matches users whose real name contains the word "bolton."
`fullname:firstname lastname`	fullname:nat friedman matches a user with the full name "Nat Friedman." Note: This search qualifier is sensitive to spacing.
`in:email`	data in:email matches users with the word "data" in their email.

Search by number of repositories a user owns

You can filter users based on the number of repositories they own, using the repos qualifier and greater than, less than, and range qualifiers.

Qualifier	Example
`repos:n`	repos:>9000 matches users whose repository count is over 9,000.
`name` `repos:n`	bert repos:10..30 matches users with the word "bert" in their username or real name who own 10 to 30 repositories.

Search by location

You can search for users by the location indicated in their profile.

Qualifier	Example
`location:LOCATION`	repos:1 location:iceland matches users with exactly one repository that live in Iceland.

Search by repository language

Using the language qualifier you can search for users based on the languages of repositories they own.

Qualifier	Example
`language:LANGUAGE` `location:LOCATION`	language:javascript location:russia matches users in Russia with a majority of their repositories written in JavaScript.
`name` `language:LANGUAGE` `in:fullname`	jenny language:javascript in:fullname matches users with JavaScript repositories whose full name contains the word "jenny."