Add Stars count filter

[kjsman]

Example: stars:1000 only queries codes of repositories which starred more than 1k.

This would help researchers to find specific patterns from open sources projects.

[warengonzaga]

I love the idea of it...

[DamianFekete]

Add starts count filter... or be able to sort by the number of stars.

[p0]

That's a good idea! We currently use indicators like star/watcher/fork counts (and many others) to rank and score results, so you should tend to see results from repos with more stars higher up. It would be possible to expose those in the search query syntax too. I'll take it to the team.

[wumpus]

I see that the advanced search now allegedly has the ability to filter by star count, but it only searches the names of repos. And doesn't seem to work. I was hoping to search code and then filter by star count, so I could open issues against a bunch of repos that need an API update.

[intrigus-lgtm]

I'd also be interested in filtering by star count and also fork count.
For security research it might also be interesting to filter by projects that are older than xyz days/years to filter inactive/abandoned projects.

[pluraltouch]

that is a shame. Not only one, but two reasons: a) it is basic functional requirement to sort hundreds of result by some quality rank. b) As for any result item, there is a single star number attribute, and it is simple to get, there would be no technical difficulty to implement this.

In general neither the syntax help, neither the announcement mentions the term "sort". I am wondering how on earth the team thinks that a search functionality can be useful without sorting facility?

[Wladefant]

It is already implemented: an example

[DamianFekete]

HttpServletRequest stars:>10 doesn't find any code.

[cpctaylo]

I get

The stars qualifier is not supported when searching code. Try searching for repositories instead?

[goproslowyo]

I didn't realize it supported the range pattern. Exactly what I was looking for: stars:100..5000

[wumpus]

But it's still only searching repo names. If you look at commits in the result, there's a warning:

The stars qualifier is not supported when searching commits. Try searching for repositories instead?

[jin-yng]

Any way we could get this feature on code searches? I have the case where I am searching for a particular usage pattern and would like to find a well-established, production tested method.

[jin-yng]

A sort of greatest to least would be most helpful.