Search for code or text in GitLab

Question

Is it possible to search for code or text in GitLab inside of files? I can search for files, issues, milestones, etc., but could not find a way to search for code in source file

Answer 1

It was announced in 5.2:

https://about.gitlab.com/2013/05/22/gitlab-5-dot-2-released/

And I can confirm code search is working with 8.4

Answer 2

Alternatively you can use the python-gitlab library to search text in the projects that you need:

import gitlab


def search(gitlab_server, token, file_filter, text, group=None, project_filter=None):
    return_value = []
    gl = gitlab.Gitlab(gitlab_server, private_token=token)
    if (project_filter == '') and (group == ''):
        projects = gl.projects.list(all=True)
    else:
        projects = gl.projects.list(search=project_filter, group=group)
    for project in projects:
        files = []
        try:
            files = project.repository_tree(recursive=True, all=True)
        except Exception as e:
            print(str(e), "Error getting tree in project:", project.name)
        for file in files:
            if file_filter == file['name']:
                file_content = project.files.raw(file_path=file['path'], ref='master')
                if text in str(file_content):
                    return_value.append({
                        "project": project.name,
                        "file": file['path']
                    })
    return return_value

Complete example can be found here: gitlab-search