Structural code grep across public GitHub repositories
Details
- External ID
- 49401216
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Structural code grep across public GitHub repositories
- Website domain
- codemod.com
- Launched
- Aug. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6975806451612904
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Codemod grep searches public code by syntax and structure, not just text or regex. Use ast-grep patterns to find code by shape across repositories.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- code search across github
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Operating a fast structural AST grep search across vast numbers of public GitHub repositories requires massive distributed indexing infrastructure, AST caching, and high-throughput query execution.
What it would actually take: Requires a distributed pipeline continuously cloning and parsing billions of lines of code into ASTs using tree-sitter or ast-grep engines across varied programming languages. The system must store and index structural graph representations or inverted n-gram AST indices, backed by a large distributed search cluster capable of sub-second structural traversal over terabytes of syntax trees. This requires specialized distributed systems expertise, massive cloud compute/storage budgets, and deep knowledge of compiler IR and code search architectures.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
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Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
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