Advanced Search Syntax with GitHub search

As with Public Profile search, SeekOut supports a wide range of field-specific search capabilities in GitHub candidate search.

Field Search

To find words in a specific part of the candidate's profile, use the structure fieldname:searchterm

cur_title:architect

This finds anyone with architect somewhere in their title. 

Boolean operators can be used with these field searches:

grad_year:2020 AND cur_title:("business analyst" OR engineer)

This finds anyone who graduated college in 2020 and has a current title containing "business analyst" or "engineer."

You can also use wildcard operators in field searches:

cur_title:arch*

This finds anyone whose current title includes a word starting with "arch" (e.g., architect, archer, etc.)

Field Name Operators

Here are the fields you can use to search within the keyword box in Github Search:

• full_name

• locations

• skills

• industry

• summary

• cur_company

• cur_title

• cur_job_desc

• past_companies

• past_titles

• schools

• majors

• degrees

• grad_year

• contrib_repos

• diversity

• topics

• personal_repos

• websites