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: