How to search files with a filename *searchstring* and a size larger than 100 KB (globally)

[rwiesbach]

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I have been trying to find out how to do it for over 1 hour now.
I assume that Code search would be the right tool, even though the file may not necessarily be code (but raw/blob, plaintext or something else)
https://github.com/search/advanced does not have a filesize, only a repo size.

Google results often date back many years and are related to an old search syntax:
filename: and size: are unknown quantifiers to Code Search, but mentioned in the google results "all over the place".
Even the Bing copilot suggests filename:BLABLA size:>100KB

[rwiesbach]

It sounds like you're trying to search for files based on their size within a GitHub repository, but unfortunately, GitHub's advanced search doesn't offer a direct way to filter files by size.

well, not for a single repo but for all of (public) GitHub, so I cannot just clone it locally :)

[look]

You're right, the search syntax changed when we introduced the new code search. filename was replaced with the more general-purpose path qualifier. The size filter is not supported at this time.

However, you can use the old syntax (including the size: qualifier) with the GitHub API. That may be a workaround for your use case.

[rwiesbach]

Would you kindly tell me how this example would like like when using the API, like which REST-endpoint is to be used?
I guess it is easy if you are used to the API, but it would surely save quite some of my time as I do not intend to use the API for anything more than this. (I hope it can be used without generating API-Key and other auth-stuff involved?!)
Thank you.