You can search for issues and pull requests globally across all of {% data variables.product.product_name %}, or search for issues and pull requests within a particular organization. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

{% tip %}

Tips:{% ifversion ghes %}

• This article contains example searches on the {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}.com website, but you can use the same search filters on {% data variables.location.product_location %}.{% endif %}

• For a list of search syntaxes that you can add to any search qualifier to further improve your results, see "AUTOTITLE".

• 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.

• Use a minus (hyphen) symbol to exclude results that match a qualifier. For example, to ignore issues created by the "octocat" user, you'd use -author:octocat in your search. Note that this does not work for missing metadata qualifiers.

• {% data reusables.search.search_issues_and_pull_requests_shortcut %}

  {% endtip %}

By default, {% data variables.product.product_name %} search will return both issues and pull requests. However, you can restrict search results to just issues or pull requests using the type or is qualifier.

With the in qualifier you can restrict your search to the title, body, comments, or any combination of these. When you omit this qualifier, the title, body, and comments are all searched.

To search issues and pull requests in all repositories owned by a certain user or organization, you can use the user or org qualifier. To search issues and pull requests in a specific repository, you can use the repo qualifier.

{% data reusables.pull_requests.large-search-workaround %}

You can filter issues and pull requests based on whether they're open or closed using the state or is qualifier.

{% ifversion merge-queue %}

You can also use the is qualifier to find pull requests that are queued to merge.

{% endif %}

You can filter issues based on the reason given when the issue was closed, using the reason qualifier.

You can filter by the visibility of the repository containing the issues and pull requests using the is qualifier. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

The author qualifier finds issues and pull requests created by a certain user or integration account.

The assignee qualifier finds issues and pull requests that are assigned to a certain user. You can search for issues and pull requests that have any assignee by using the wildcard character *, but only within a single repository. You can also search for issues and pull requests that have no assignee.

The mentions qualifier finds issues that mention a certain user. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

For organizations and teams you belong to, you can use the team qualifier to find issues or pull requests that @mention a certain team within that organization. Replace these sample names with your organization and team name to perform a search.

The commenter qualifier finds issues that contain a comment from a certain user.

You can use the involves qualifier to find issues that in some way involve a certain user. The involves qualifier is a logical OR between the author, assignee, mentions, and commenter qualifiers for a single user. In other words, this qualifier finds issues and pull requests that were either created by a certain user, assigned to that user, mention that user, or were commented on by that user.

You can search for issues and pull requests you have created or have interacted with by following the desired qualifier with @me. Any qualifier that works with a username allows you to limit your search to issues and pull requests you created, are assigned, mentioned on, or are requested as a reviewer of.

You can narrow your results to only include issues that are linked to a pull request by a closing reference, or pull requests that are linked to an issue that the pull request may close.

You can narrow your results by labels, using the label qualifier. Since issues can have multiple labels, you can list a separate qualifier for each issue.

The milestone qualifier finds issues or pull requests that are a part of a milestone within a repository.

You can use the project qualifier to find issues that are associated with a specific project. You must search projects by the project number. You can find the project number at the end of a project's URL.

You can filter pull requests based on the status of the commits. This is especially useful if you are using the Status API or a CI service.

If you know the specific SHA hash of a commit, you can use it to search for pull requests that contain that SHA. The SHA syntax must be at least seven characters.

You can filter pull requests based on the branch they came from (the "head" branch) or the branch they are merging into (the "base" branch).

With the language qualifier you can search for issues and pull requests within repositories that are written in a certain language.

You can use the comments qualifier along with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers to search by the number of comments.

You can filter issues and pull requests by the number of interactions with the interactions qualifier along with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers. The interactions count is the number of reactions and comments on an issue or pull request.

You can filter issues and pull requests by the number of reactions using the reactions qualifier along with greater than, less than, and range qualifiers.

You can filter for draft pull requests. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

You can filter pull requests based on their review status (none, required, approved, or changes requested), by reviewer, and by requested reviewer.

You can filter issues based on times of creation, or when they were last updated. For issue creation, you can use the created qualifier; to find out when an issue was last updated, you'll want to use the updated qualifier.

Both take a date as a parameter. {% data reusables.time_date.date_format %} {% data reusables.time_date.time_format %}

{% data reusables.search.date_gt_lt %}

You can filter issues and pull requests based on when they were closed, using the closed qualifier.

This qualifier takes a date as its parameter. {% data reusables.time_date.date_format %} {% data reusables.time_date.time_format %}

{% data reusables.search.date_gt_lt %}

You can filter pull requests based on when they were merged, using the merged qualifier.

This qualifier takes a date as its parameter. {% data reusables.time_date.date_format %} {% data reusables.time_date.time_format %}

{% data reusables.search.date_gt_lt %}

You can filter pull requests based on whether they're merged or unmerged using the is qualifier.

The archived qualifier filters your results based on whether an issue or pull request is in an archived repository.

You can search for an issue or pull request that has a locked conversation using the is qualifier. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

You can narrow your search to issues and pull requests that are missing certain metadata, using the no qualifier. These qualifiers cannot be combined with the minus (hyphen) symbol to exclude items that are missing metadata. That metadata includes:

• Labels
• Milestones
• Assignees
• Projects

• "AUTOTITLE"