grep.app Reviews and details

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• Ask HN: Grep.app Alternative?

  Https://grep.app/ has served me well for the last couple of years finding snippets for random APIs. But recently I found that certain strings from open-source projects suddenly yield no results. For example: VaultServiceTimeout from https://github.com/rajanadar/VaultSharp has no results for https://grep.app/search?q=VaultServiceTimeout. Is there some alternative service for this task that is up-to-date? - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• Find code in open source projects

  Grep.app - This platform offers the ability to search across more than half a million git repositories. My initial impressions are positive, although the repository count may seem limited in comparison to the vast expanse of available code online. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Why is the documentation... nowhere to be found?!

  Search engines / LLMs are great but they're not primary sources and it's pretty hard to tell what's good vs bad practices. That said, add grep.app to your bookmarks- or take this query and modify the search terms so you can search by .nix files (harder to do from scratch). Source: 5 months ago

• GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in

  To be fair, GitHub still has vast majority of features available as public anonymous API end points other than code search. It's just that they are rate-limited a lot more aggressively. And making a GitHub account is free and not terrible intrusive. You can also simply clone the repo anonymously using HTTPS endpoints, and do your code search there (e.g. There are third-party websites like https://grep.app/ that... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in

  If you really care about being able to search github without logging in https://grep.app/ is pretty good, I would often use it instead of the old github search cause I found the results to be better. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Code Search at Google: The Story of Han-Wen and Zoekt

  The same algorithm is also used in Hound (https://github.com/hound-search/hound You really should check it out if you haven't already. It's incredibly useful; I used it all the time. Not open source though. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• What are some lesser known tools that you use frequently?

  Https://grep.app to see how others are doing things. Source: about 1 year ago

• Grep – New kind of search engine

  Not to be confused with a great search engine for GitHub named https://grep.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Grep.app is spectacular for code search

  With Grep.app, the searches fit coding requirements much better. They can be case sensitive, can be complete words (vs substrings), and can match regular expressions. In practice, I always turn on the Case sensitive and Whole words options:. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

  Actually I've been using https://grep.app for ages and while I agree on GitHub I basically only search the repo I'm in, that's mainly because Github's existing search sucks. On grep.app I regularly search all repos. It's very useful for finding out how to use APIs or where APIs from dependencies are defined. So I suspect you don't want it because subconsciously you know that Github's "search all" feature won't... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

  Https://grep.app/ and https://cht.sh/ for quick reference. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago