• Profile icon at the top right → Settings → Contributions & Activity → “Include private contributions on my profile” → check → “Update preferences”

• Profile icon at the top right → Settings → Profile Settings → “Show Achievements on my profile” → uncheck → “Update preferences”

• Verifying your email address (docs.github.com)
• Creating a personal access token (docs.github.com)
• Token authentication requirements for Git operations (github.blog)
  • Beginning August 13, 2021, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com.

• https://www.githubstatus.com/

• https://grep.app/
  • sample query: https://grep.app/search?q=binary%20gap%20&filter[lang][0]=Python

foo path:*.extension

ex:-

foo path:*.ipynb

will search for foo in .ipynb files

Ref:- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59909592/how-can-i-search-all-files-ending-with-the-file-extension-feature-on-github

Use

filename:.travis.yml

for example

python unittest filename:.travis.yml

Add

-repo:user_name/repo_name

to the search string.

Ref:

• https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/getting-started-with-searching-on-github/understanding-the-search-syntax#exclude-certain-results - documents the '-' operator.

tags | do not search in forks

To exclude forks from your results:

NOT is:fork

To search only fork repositories:

is:fork

Example:

header_to_metadata_and_cell NOT is:fork

will search for header_to_metadata_and_cell in non-fork repositories.

On 2026-01-26, header_to_metadata_and_cell NOT is:fork gave 33 results vs 204 results for header_to_metadata_and_cell

Ref:

• https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/github-code-search/understanding-github-code-search-syntax#is-qualifier - documentation
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/13126

For your own issues

https://github.com/issues

For other users, there are two possible approaches.

Solution 1:

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3Ausername+archived%3Afalse+

For example

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3AKamarajuKusumanchi+archived%3Afalse+

Solution 2:

is:issue is:open author:$author

for example

is:issue is:open author:kamarajukusumanchi